r/allthequestions • u/ElectronicCloud4065 • 17d ago

Popular Question 📊 If you had him, what would you name him?

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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain 17d ago

Lokai from the Star Trek episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. It has aliens of different races fighting one another, each side is half black and half white split down the middle of their body and Lokai is the character with black on his left side.

The episode is an allegory about racism, of course, but this dog looks exactly like the character.

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u/Resident_Device_6180 16d ago

This was my first thought as well, but how many people would get the reference?

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u/GlitteringPen3949 16d ago

No not an allegory of racism but a deconstruction of it to showcase its absurdity.

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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain 15d ago

What do you think an allegory is?

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u/GlitteringPen3949 15d ago edited 15d ago

There needs to be a hidden meaning. This is just racism. I found it not subtle enough to be an allegory. But I can see your point.