QUOTE: Originally posted by kik36
I'm not a Trekkie, but man I hate it when the media makes claims like this....
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I think it was more the police themselves, at first, though the paper did run with it, which was dumb.
The claim is that it's a world with monsters and make-believe which you can control, so it's for people with control fantasies or some pop-psych crap like that, but in fact people who know anything about the shows know that Star Trek is, more than anything else, a view of a positive future in which people actually have higher goals and often behave better than people do today.
This is part of the appeal of the shows -- a positive future and a human race with higher aspirations -- and though I'm also not a huge fan of the shows, to characterize them in that way is as stupid as it is insulting.