Space, The Final Frontier

to go boldly and claim all of space for ourselves, well if you're an American anyway. So on that Star Ship Enterprise, as we always knew it would be, there would be no Mr Sulu, no Mr Checkov and no Scottie. The ship would be American through-and-through. I suppose we should think Vietnam and Iraq writ large. If America behaves the same way as it has done recently, holding people without trial, secret torture camps and the killing of many thousands of non-combatants as a matter of course then they really will be the Borg in their relentless search for oil.