Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?
balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 3 weeks agoWhat science and sociology did you learn from these shows?
Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?
balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 3 weeks agoWhat science and sociology did you learn from these shows?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I guess it isn’t so much that Star Trek and the Orville teach facts (boy do the writers misunderstand evolution) as they explore what if questions about society, like what if there was a society where it’s taboo to identify as a gender (TNG episode). It’s more thought provoking than educational