Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays.
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@theleftistlawyer Anyone who thinks that DS9 wasn't gloriously woke has never watched a single episode and can be mocked relentlessly for being a fake fanboy (it's always a boy).
@dresstokilt @theleftistlawyer *Quark makes money, and I turn the TV off before his comeuppance arc* finally, a show that tells it like it is.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
@theleftistlawyer Wait, is this about Star Trek, or Dungeons and Dragons?
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@JeffGrigg @theleftistlawyer Hikaru Sulu was not from a Cold War enemy country.
Yes. You are correct.
Sulu was from a WWII enemy country. (The actor had been a child in a US concentration camp.)
Pevel Chekov, Russian, the only cold war adversary.
But I think it does "send a message" that "current and former enemies" were now front-and-center in our future drive to explore the universe.
Without a word, it said that our petty local national conflicts had been settled.
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RWTB: Oh but surely Picard's Enterprise wasn't like this.
Average TNG Episode: Will Riker is falling for a trans person from an agender society. Meanwhile, the genius Black disabled chief engineer and his autism-coded android best friend just saved another planet through science education.
@theleftistlawyer Enterprise: chief engineer gets pregnant after he plays in the squishy mind sharing gel.
Same guy to doctor in a different situation: "I think your wife is hitting on me." "OH! YOU LUCKY MAN!!! You gonna say yes? Say yes, you gotta say yes! You will NOT regret it!"
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@cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer I like Star Trek, but my Orville knowledge is more complete (it's also a mere three seasons heh). This reminds me of one of my favorite moments in the series, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. "You get all this by becoming better people."
I hope we can become better people.
@theorangetheme @cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer
Been debating on watching more video. A rewatch of The Orville is sounding good. Such a good show, and I've only seen it once. Thanks for the reminder, and the pics/text for encouragement :^)
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@theorangetheme @cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer
Been debating on watching more video. A rewatch of The Orville is sounding good. Such a good show, and I've only seen it once. Thanks for the reminder, and the pics/text for encouragement :^)
@lxskllr @cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer It's one of the only bits of sci-fi media I've seen in a long time that makes me feel any sort of hope for humanity. Definitely worth a rewatch (or two). :3
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
all they remember is that 'White Man lead, and others follow', and that's pretty much all that counts.
Same with Star Wars: take away the White Male Lead
️ , and now it's Armageddon. Those WASP panicked and cried while they cut the heads of figurines and burned them:
'What about MY fee-fees?'
(They didn't like Kylo Ren showing them for what they are, either)
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@theleftistlawyer That is confusing as Star Trek has always been a very progressive show. As in decades ahead of its time culturally. Probably more than the average SciFi show.
If conservatives want a relatively conservative show, I think Babylon 5 might be in their orbit.
I was going to recommend Firefly / Serenity, but it’s too libertarian & diverse for their taste!
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
every episode Kirk had a new love interest🫦
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
@theleftistlawyer It could be worse.
At least you're not spending the proceeds of your book sales to take away the rights of trans people around the world.
In which case you'd be right at home in certain states like South Dakota. Good luck being a leftist lawyer in a red state.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
Fakers who whine about what ST used to be never watched the show, and probably just got their tired schtick from every 90s standup that no one remembers today, even while they're trying to work their old bits into their chats with the working comedians they drive to the airport, to post to the Tiktoxic later.
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Seriously. Everyone at NASA I worked with loved Star Trek and was working towards that kind of future. They recognized the problems and challenges, but they really believed that future.
Although people in the commercial tech industry love to trot out sci fi references as if it's some kind of credential, they consistently get it wrong, making the dystopian stuff come true instead.
You just cannot get to The Federation by building SkyNet. It's not possible.
Bros are all villain of the week guys.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
Not to mention the Prime Directive...
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
@theleftistlawyer All this is why I'm worried what the new owners of Paramount will do to Star Trek.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
@theleftistlawyer Trek was always woke. That’s what made it amazing.
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@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.
@lori @cyberlyra @theleftistlawyer They don't have money in their society. That's why there aren't any pay walls.
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@theleftistlawyer Maybe they like the fact it's all organised like a military organisation...
@frank87 @theleftistlawyer Bingo
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@theleftistlawyer All this is why I'm worried what the new owners of Paramount will do to Star Trek.
@jadebees @theleftistlawyer They can’t mess with it too much for fear of losing their entire built in audience. We will see a dark age of Star Trek shows that don’t get too political and downplay anything about diversity and “empathy” but hopefully once the orange one is dead or in prison things will go back to normal.
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Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
@theleftistlawyer I enjoyed every fucking episode of every fucking Star Trek show and I really wish they hadn't cancelled Academy.
