To their credit, there’s no evidence in that episode that the crew judged them for who they were or how they behaved.
The reacted to the difference, they never once condemned them for their difference.
They kind of did. Picard was clearly disgusted by them.
Well, he’s French. Criticizing him for being disgusted by other cultures is disrespecting his culture.
This is my take too. Well said.
In the Star Trek universe, mankind began sending sleeper ships to remote parts of the galaxy in the 1990s. Long before WWIII, long before First Contact, long before the Federation.
It’s a weird splinter of the human race that never became enlightened by near-extinction but colonized distant planets anyways. So not all humans have matured at the same rate.
TOS deals with a lot of these, TNG also touched on it. Then you have the 37s in Voyager and New Eden in Discovery - pre-warp humans living off Earth for other reasons. I’m probably missing a whole bunch more.
Your explanation does not make any of this less ridiculous. Just because people aren’t evolving or changing culture right along side earth humans, doesn’t mean they stay stuck in their old culture and never progress. You can explain it away any way you like but these are the star trek episodes that are inexplicably stupid and make the series look bad
IIRC the colonists intentionally wanted this way of life. To live in harmony with nature and all that. So I don’t get this critique of ‘they didn’t change’ when that was the whole point.
Actually, if your group is small and it takes all of your time and energy just to not die, it’s really hard if not impossible to progress technologically or socially.
There are still tribal humans here on Earth in 2024. Not because they’re stupid or less evolved, but because they’re too busy staying alive to think about building roads or inventing mechanical devices.
The OP picture is an unfair slant. Those are FlyingSquid’s words. Those Irish didn’t colonize another planet because they were drunk or ignorant. They decided to leave the comfort of Earth to become pioneers and risk their lives on a future that was not guaranteed. They survived, and they had to continue surviving for centuries. And surviving meant focusing on farming and reproducing and sticking to what they knew. Philosophy was a much lower priority.
…And after only a few generations, I imagine the number of people who knew how to operate and maintain their ship dropped to zero. No time to operate a radio that no one is listening to when there are fields to plow.
