Mods, I'm sorry to reopen the subject (if it goes out of hand, please lock it at the first sign of trouble)
I wanted to ask to you to please keep the political ban in place. And for a simple reason: these boards are international in nature, but because of the language barrier, and the show concerned, most people here are American or English.
And it's no mystery that American and English people, in their majority, mostly support a certain view of the world. While it is their absolute right to do so, the minority who disagrees has to face an endless stream of threads bashing their own view of the world, and because of numbers alone, they cannot answer to everything, or find articles on everything (that would need too much energy). Soon discouragement, disinterest and anger creep in.
Allowing political threads is the best way to force tired members out, and reduce posting to only the political areas. Which, I think, is not what a Trek RPG board intends. Have a look at the FBR: 80% of the activity goes into the Political section.
Please keep this place as it was intended: a home for everyone wanting to discuss Trek and RPGs, with the occasional fun thread; not a political arena with a pretense on TrekRPGing.