Daniel Carrera wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
Mirrors the Soviet Block and Syria et al and the USA.
USA = Federation Soviet = Klingon Non-US friendly = Romulan
Very down to Earth really from a US perspective of course:-)
I always took the /Romulans/ to be the communists. Then again, I'm a kid and my experience is from the TNG series, during which they were uneasy allies. Maybe the original series was different.
I think it's interesting how, after the fall of the USSR, the Klingongs have been reworked as a religious society, obviously inspired by Christianity ("the second comming of Kalas").
Cheers, Daniel.
The Romulans were modeled after the old Roman Empire. I mean they come from a system with twin worlds, Romulus and Remus. Pretty strait forward, there.
In the Original series the Klingons weren't fleshed out much. They were just the bad guys... the enemy of the Federation, which was clearly a democratic society modeled after the (ideal of) the United States. So in that sense they represented the Soviets. In TNG it seems to me that the Klingons were portrayed more as a medieval society. As to how much the Klingons have been inspired by Christianity... True, Kahless was "resurrected" by cloning, but the Klingon mythology claims that they killed their gods. Not in the same way as Christianity, though. When Klingons kill someone they tend to stay dead! :)
Now the ultimate communists would have to be the Borg collective. "Resistance is futile. Your biological and technological uniqueness will be assimilated. We are the Borg."
Stay tuned for next week's exciting episode, kiddies...
Rof
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