Sci-fi action movies are not created equal. While we all cheered when Luke Skywalker blew up the Empire’s superweapon and the hundreds of thousands of people on it, the militarism inherent in the genre is, as Ursula K. Le Guin pointed out in 1978, sometimes troubling. Long before brilliant sci-fi shows like Andor and For All Mankind began deconstructing military science fiction, 1997’s Starship Troopers blazed a trail for them.
