Among the countless dazzling artifacts displayed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a trove of lethal weapons, ranging from ornately carved aboriginal war clubs to medieval crossbows decorated with engraved ivory panels to French
flintlock rifles adorned with silver filigree.
Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with
flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»