'Star Trek' understood the division we keep falling for

Joe Palaggi: What ‘Star Trek’ understood about division — and why we keep falling for it

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look. Not because the problems aren’t real — they are — but because the patterns are. The outrage cycles. The villains rotate. The language escalates. And yet the outcomes remain stubbornly the same: more anger, less trust, and very little that resembles progress. This isn’t a new problem. It’s an old one we’ve dressed up with better technology. Gene Roddenberry understood this more th…

'Star Trek' understood the division we keep falling for

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look.