"The show, released in the decade of the Vietnam War, American Civil Rights protests, the second wave of the feminist movement and the threat of nuclear war, dared to imagine what peace might look like."
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Rachel Lopez, “Set phasers to stun: Your warp-speed guide to the Star Trek universe”, Hindustan Times, (June 8, 2019)
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