The part that stuck out the most to me even when it was getting released was the naked military worship.

The amount of handwringing about being held back by red tape, regulations and bureaucrats is very mid 2000s zeitgeist. We just need "men of action".

Hell, he's much closer to a spook. He only reports to the joint council that heads up the universe iirc, and is authorized to get the job done 'however necessary'.

The entire first chapter of the first game was spent trying to prove that one of the other space spooks, who was notorious for going by the letter of that mantra, was actually doing something illegal enough to justify pursuing him.

it was shit like the Wire and 24

24 was quite something. Torture and imperialism justification everywhere, interspersed with really on the nose cisco product placement.

Hey, the Wire had some very solid anti-capitalism hidden under the cop apologia.

Always thought Firefly got it fairly right allthough that is basically just Cowboy Bebop anyways

Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.

Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.