Star Trek is a massive franchise heavily influenced by themes and myths of colonization. This episode gives a brief overview of these themes.
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For more on taming of savagery and individualism as frontier values, see The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
For more on the Indian-hater trope, see Gunfighter Nation by Richard Slotkin
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