Anno: "I don’t hate Star Trek, but I’m not impressed by it. You can see the arrogance of America in it. It’s a story of influencing or enlightening native peoples of destination planets, that features romance with their most admirable woman in a front-line way. I feel like this is American imperialism itself.
It’s like Marxists are portrayed as being primitives. I can’t get used to that kind of American worldview. I think the Enterprise is cool, but that’s all."
庵野: 『スタートレック』は嫌いじゃないですけど、そんなにはまってはいないんです。なんかアメリカ人の傲慢さが見えててね。行く先の星々の原住民を感化していくというか啓蒙していく話や、最前線の基地では、そこの一番偉い女性とロマンスがある。もう、アメリカの帝国主義そのものという気がしてね。なんかこうマルクス主義の人たちが、原始的なものとして描かれてますよね。ああいうアメリカ的な世界観というのには、どうもなじめなくて。エンタープライズ号は、カッコいいと思うんですけどね。」
Ehhh, sort of. Star Trek is obviously limited by the fact that it’s an American television show mostly coming from the era of a limited number of networks making everything, so of course it’s going to have problematic viewpoints within it, and it definitely never outwardly tried to subvert the dominant narratives of American hegemony. But within those constraints, I think it’s not a coincidence that a lot of lefties see its future as something to aspire to.
Part of why NuTrek sucks so much now is because American capitalism has become so degraded that commercial art produced within it can’t plausibly portray a future where anything is actually better.
