Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays.

[frank87@mastodon.pirateparty.be]

@theleftistlawyer Maybe they like the fact it's all organised like a military organisation...

[traecer@techhub.social]

@theleftistlawyer
️ THIS! ALL OF THIS!

[o_o@mastodon.nu]

@theleftistlawyer I heard a long time ago, don’t know if true (probably not), that Roddenberry originally wanted to make a non-scifi about social injustices and such but was rejected – so he put it in space instead.

Whether true or not, that’s how I view TOS. I mean there’s literally an episode about half-black-half-white being racist to half-white-half-black people of their own species… many if not most episodes are extremely thinly veiled social commentary.

[mroach@ublog.mroach.com]

@theleftistlawyer Tech bros are the Ferengi with hints of Cardassian-style nationalism

[workwithkirk@mstdn.social]

@theleftistlawyer Also, Nazis were bad.

[twotired@universeodon.com]

@theleftistlawyer

Star Trek used to be cool but now it’s woke!
RATM used to be cool but now it’s woke!
Jesus used to be cool but now He’s woke!

[thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social]

@o_O @theleftistlawyer "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" - one of my favorites! I loved that it featured The Riddler (Frank Gorshin). And I always wondered if it was inspired by Dr Seuss' "The Sneetches"...

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@theleftistlawyer It was several dimensions *more* like this as far as *looking for challenges.

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@theleftistlawyer the difference - Kirk used every possibility to pull off his shirt. Picard, Sisco, and Pike are less narcissistic

[crypticmirror@mstdn.social]

@theleftistlawyer

TOS even had a full episode on why it was a good thing to punch nazis and never a good thing to copy them. A full fucking episode.

[lori@cambrian.social]

@cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer You can't even get to the Federation by building AncestryDotCom. I remember fondly when Counselor Troi identified a living descendant of one of the survivors of a cryonics mishap and I was blown away by her ability to do that without encountering paywalls. The future we want is open source, including open data.

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@theleftistlawyer

Well at least there's not an episode of TNG where they unfreeze a capitalist from centuries ago and he's a complete blowhard who's unable to adjust to a society not based around capital and profit-seeking.

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@JTinMI @theleftistlawyer Binge watched TOS recently.

There's a quick moment in an early episode. The turbolift doors open to reveal Uhura. She shoots a look to the two white male lower-ranking crewmembers who were waiting for the lift, and they step out of her way.

This at a time when black people had to step out of white people's way on the sidewalk.

Subtle but powerful.

[officeplant@mastodon.social]

@theleftistlawyer starting to really doubt any of them ever really consumed their declared favorite shows and music "before they were woke". More likely they merely observed sounds and colors somehow forming strange opinions independent of reality.

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@theleftistlawyer I think the only books they read were "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Iron Dream." They saw the movie version of LOTR and rooted for the wrong side.

[mattmerk@mastodon.social]

@theleftistlawyer Point #2 on this list is fun! https://mix979fm.com/ten-things-you-didnt-know-star-trek-creator-gene-roddenberry/

I worked on Star Trek, and right-wingers are not very smart.

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@CrypticMirror @theleftistlawyer What episode? I've never really watched TOS and I would love to watch this episode.

[z80shellcode@defcon.social]

@theleftistlawyer And Borgs were communists (Borg Queen was Stalin) xD

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@retrosponge @CrypticMirror @theleftistlawyer

"Patterns Of Force"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Force

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@cptbutton @CrypticMirror @theleftistlawyer Thank you!