Questionable Things We Ignore In The Star Trek Franchise

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BY ADAM LEVINE/APRIL 5, 2022 4:46 PM EDT

The "Star Trek" franchise has been running since 1966, and in that time it has become one of the most beloved, successful, and iconic science fiction series ever made. Through its many TV series and even more feature films, "Star Trek" has built a fully realized universe full of drama, conflict, and excitement. In a universe hundreds of years in our future, Earth has progressed to an age of enlightenment, made contact with alien civilizations, and built a United Federation of Planets that stretches across the galaxy.

The series has told all kinds of stories and popularized sci-fi concepts genre fans now often take for granted, like transporters, holodecks, and even warp speed. We take so much of "Star Trek" for granted, in fact, that there are some elements to the series that might deserve some closer scrutiny. Details that, upon further inspection, don't add up. Some of these components of the "Star Trek" franchise even become a little unsettling the more you think about them.

Some of these issues revolve around classic pieces of "Star Trek" technology that might be more than they first appear while others are related to the unusual ways the franchise has portrayed different aliens, cultures, and Starfleet itself. Here are the most questionable things in the "Star Trek" franchise that most audiences have been ignoring.