re: What are your 5 favorite Star Trek: The Original Series episodes?

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Especially since this came out during a time when WWII was still a recent event.

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Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick were discussing the original The Producers on Com/Cars/Coffee. How the time between WWII and that film was similar to 9-11 and today. And how receptive the public was in the 60's and how a 9-11 comedy would get burned at the stake by today's audiences. Imagine a current Hogan's Heroes set in an Al Qaeda hostage camp.

But Star Trek was, "In the future some well intending Earthling will build a Nazi regime on an alien planet and one of our crew will see the logic in choosing the Nazi model." And audiences said, "Awesome! Nazis!"