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I always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing.
In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle.
This is all assumption though.
A lot of people think that's what it was.
That said, TNG started in ~~1997~~ 1987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.
So you're saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
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Yes.
Yes I am.
Yeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR
1987, bit of a typo there my guy.
Yeah, I fixed it.
The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.
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