Abstract
What is theoretically, philosophically salient about the original series, in particular, is the acknowledgment that humanity’s socio-organism (as Roddenberry put it) has evolved globally in an uneven manner—with the so-called under-developed world more characterized by religiosity and authoritarianism. Even in the putatively developed world, there is a major barrier to social, economic, political advancement—a fixation on stability (i.e., pragmatism, neo-pragmatism). Kirk and the Enterprise crew in this context are revolutionaries—directly confronting, destroying the factors that inhibit progressive change.