Favourite Trek Race

[MrPresident]

The Vulcans aren't neutral.

They are also telling the humans not to interfere with any races.

the Swiss have produced Gottfried Dienst

Exactly.

 

[Jurimax]

You will be assimilated... resistance is futile

 

[MrPresident]

You will be assimilated... resistance is futile

If resistance is all you have then it is everything.

 

[Ancient Grudge]

Klingons are the best.

 

[Jurimax]

MrPresident, we, the Borg, disagree with you, resistance will only turn your assimilation into a long and painful proces.

 

[andrewgprv]

I call for another poll, way to many left out where are the ferangi, the bajoran, the bedazed etc....

BTW I like the Cardassians

 

[napoleon526]

I've always thought of the ST races this way:

Klingons = Russians, or at least how many Americans thought of the Russians in the 60's. Barbaric, warmongering, but also with a strong sense of honor and duty. Ideas like freedom and democracy are not very important to them. Are now our friends, sort of.

Romulans = Romulans are obviously modeled on the Roman Empire. Duh, the two planets are ROMULUS and REMUS! Romulans have a pechant for deceit and intrigue, just like the Romans.

Cardassians = Germans. Smart, brutal, efficient. Always looking for lebenstraum.

Bajorans = Israelis/Jews. Have suffered persecution for centuries, finnally have a homeland that is their own. Very good military, fiercely independent.

Borg = The ultimate manifestation of communism. No individuals, all are just part of a whole, single-minded collective. Life is controlled by the collective will of the citizens, but in reality a single individual is in charge.

Ferengi = The ultimate manifestation of capitalism. Society is totally bent towards profit and economic gain. Ferengi are perfect for showing pitfalls of capitalism, such as subjgation of women and lesser beings and how capitalism has made an entire species untrustworthy.

 

[Ancient Grudge]

thats very a niceway of thinking and fits very well

 

[Kennelly]

The Romulans are NOT like Soviets as they're (after the Federation of course) the most democratic big race.The Romulan Senate has the power not one man/woman and the Senators are not a little caste,but elected as we saw with Senator Pardek.True,they have a secret police,a strong military etc.;so if we compare them to any present/past nation,I think Turkey fits them quite well.

Also the comparison Cardassians=Nazis and Bajorans=French is not much correct because of two major reasons:
-the Germans did not behave very cruel in France;most French did not undergo a serious change in their average life under German occupation,unlike of course the citizens of Eastern Europe
-till the Allied landing,the Resistance was never a big movement,only a splinter group,unlike the Bajoran resistance with i.e. the Shakaar group or others who were quite active-they attacked Cardassian colonies,freed whole working camps and killed many high-ranking Cardassians,nothing of these the French can state of their resistance

So I'd compare the incredibly brutal Cardassian occupation (though it was not THAT brutal:Kira once said ten million Bajorans died.In 60 Years and on a whole planet that's not much compared to what the Nazis did) to the Nazi occupation of an Eastern European Country like Poland or Yugoslavia.

The Maquis was not the Bajoran resistance,but the one of the Federation colonists along the Cardassian border (mostly humans,but even Vulcans,lol).

The Vulcans are THE key ally of the humans in UFP,but indeed peaceful.So I think they can be compared to Modern Germany (from 1949-1998).

Oh,and my favourite race are the Humans,not Picard-style "We work to better ourselves,not for money" but Riker (he once won 10 Barrens Latinum at Quarks,I don't understand how this "bettered" himself and mankind )

 

[Jeratain]

Guys, you've all got it wrong.

It's all about the Tribbles.

 

[napoleon526]

D'oh! I forgot the Federation!

Federation = America, obviously. The Federation democratic society made up of citizens from many different backgrounds, just like the US. The Federation is a hopeful view of what humans can achieve if they can resolve all the petty problems which divide us.

Can't figure out what the Vulcans represent. Maybe they don't have a modern political comparason, but represent the logical, unemotional part of all of us.

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by Jeratain
Guys, you've all got it wrong.

It's all about the Tribbles.

Tribbles represent the soft, cuddly loveable parts of all of us that love to reproduce.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

It's a toss up between the Borg, the Klingons and the Q Continum. I will go with the Q, omnipotence I gotta get me some of that.

 

[puglover]

Napolean: Excellent ST view!

 

[Shahadet]

I believe you are mistaken on the Klingon comparison. The Klingons have much more in common with the Japan of old. Houses or (clans, in Japan) throughout the empire vying for power. The Klingon Empire has a long history of civil conflict just as the many civil wars throughout Japanese history. Then there is the dedication to the way of the warrior taken from the Japanese Samurai code, the code of Bushido. The dedication to the martial arts, the rituals, the honour, the hero worship (an important part in the Shinto religion), its all there for you to see. If the Klingons can be considered as any nation on this planet it is the Japanese, or at least the Japan of old.

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by Shahadet
I believe you are mistaken on the Klingon comparison. The Klingons have much more in common with the Japan of old. Houses or (clans, in Japan) throughout the empire vying for power. The Klingon Empire has a long history of civil conflict just as the many civil wars throughout Japanese history. Then there is the dedication to the way of the warrior taken from the Japanese Samurai code, the code of Bushido. The dedication to the martial arts, the rituals, the honour, the hero worship (an important part in the Shinto religion), its all there for you to see. If the Klingons can be considered as any nation on this planet it is the Japanese, or at least the Japan of old.

I understand what you mean, but only in TNG did we really see how Klingon society opperates. In the original series, the federation obviously had a Cold-War style conflict with the Klingon empire. I think that Gene Roddenberry even admitted that he designed the Klingons to parrallel the Soviet Union.

 

[Shahadet]

Yeah but times have changed with the Klingons. The focus has shifted to a warrior race, not a cold war enemy. The Klingons have been redefined, leaving those old bumbling idiots of TOS dead and buried.

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by MrPresident
Is it just me or do the Borg seem strangely like Communists? And are the Klingon fascists? Or am I reading too much into Star Trek?

Ahh...last I checked the Borg doesn't have an economy....or trade...or a government...or...hummmm I think I'll stop.

 

[Toasty]

@Napoleon: I had always asumed the Romulans were the Chinese--certainly would fit modern-world politics better than Rome, yes ?

 

[newfangle]

Btw, the Federation may have started out as America, but now it is definitely EU. Scouting member planets? Come on....its obvious!