The Temporal Cold War and its hot counterpart were strange elements of Star Trek: Enterprise. It's an escalating series of conflicts from the perspective of the least informed party. While ...

But the students were surprised—as you might be—to find that Star Trek, one of my childhood favorites, was an ongoing and intentional commentary about the Cold War during its three original ...

the USS Enterprise. The bad guys, standing in for the Soviet Union, were the Klingons, whose empire was a brutal and aggressive dictatorship. Two Cold War themes run through Star Trek: the risks ...