Some clips from the climax of the classical "Star Trek Voyager" episode "Distant Origin", supposedly an allegory over Galileo Galilei´s conflict with the Inquisition, but probably directed against contemporary American Christian fundamentalists (it was originally aired in 1997). I think it´s clearly about the creation-evolution controversy in US public schools (and public life).
The starship Voyager discovers an alien civilization that turns out to be distantly related to extinct dinosaurs on Earth (!), but the alien religion denies evolution ("distant origins") in the name of the Doctrine and, I suppose, Empire. All attempts to teach the creationist hadrosaurians "the epic of evolution" fails, dissent is suppressed, and the Doctrine reigns supreme.
Note also the similarity to the Silurian Hypothesis, first proposed in 2018 and named after another race of intelligent reptiles in science fiction, this time from "Doctor Who"...
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