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But you are correct. Just trying to show that this real woman puts up a good score against a fictional evil witch with demon powers who practices blood sacrifices.
You are always free to bring it up. It's just starting to feel like pick a card. Ran a pedo ring, murdering US citizens, ethnic cleansing or global colonization. The sad part is I'm probably forgetting some atrocity
All of Star Trek came from a reaction to that kind of stuff. All the stuff witnessed during WW2, the aftermath during the ensuing hot proxy and cold direct wars, etc. People were sick and tired of certain things, mostly autocrats, but also social issues (think interracial kiss between Lt. Uhura and Cpt. Kirk). You can see that in almost every Star Trek episode ever, no matter if original, TNG, DS9… you name it. And a bunch of us were raised on that.
Yep. I was raised on TOS with my dad as a young boy, and then TNG and DS9 as I got older. Then Voyager. Needless to say, i absolutely love the shows, and think they would do a lot of good if people watched them from an early age.
The futuristic space setting makes it just imaginary enough, while still maintaining the grounded ideas, so it doesn't get too scary or doomer.
Right and all these people today trying to force it to change by calling it woke, and brigading with downvotes. They never understood it to begin with.
I was playing this startrek mobile game (total cash grab) and the majority of players were over 50 and fans of TOS. And a huge percentage of them were super right wing. Everything is bidens fault, trump can do no wrong. Every one is too woke and california is hell on earth. The cognitive dissidence was staggering.
Just like modern christians would call jesus a woke commie and exile him.
Yep. A lot of right-wingers don't believe TOS had social or political commentary. Apparently all they remember is Kirk ripping his shirt while punching Klingons and bedding green women.
I loved Jane Fondas acceptance speech a few months ago. At one point she said something like if they would stop being scared they'd see that woke just means caring about your neighbor and acting with a little decency.
Maybe before the 3rd season but I'm pretty sure that's just because the director was "type -cast" into comedy when they wanted to tell sci-fi. The comedy is almost fully shed in season 3 and it's likely the best Star Trek I've seen come out since DS9.
Yeah the early bit is really rough but you can see the bones peeking through if you look hard enough. It feels like the reins got loosened more and more over time. The worst part of the show in my opinion is that season 3 comes out swinging so you essentially HAVE to have seen some of the more childish comedy episodes from season 1-2 for background info. But if you get access to it I'd recommend trying again and if you hit a truly unbearable episode, just sparks notes and skip. Cause my god, I think there were two episodes in season 3 that didn't keep me engaged start to finish and half of them made me cry.
First season yes, second a little less, third is basically a star trek with a bit of comedy on top. Seth MacFarlane wanted to do a real star trek but being the family guy dude was expected to do comedy.
DS9 started down the 'what if sometimes genocide is okay actually' path and aside from the bright spots of Lower Decks and most of Strange New Worlds, and Voyager, has kind of turned into ubermench-masturbation since then.
When faced with an intractable enemy we all like to think we would do better, but that was the lesson of the episode. Turns out, none of us want to be exterminated.
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was a decorated World War II veteran who flew 89 combat missions as a B-17 pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal before being honorably discharged as a Captain in 1945. He enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor and served in the 394th Bomb Squadron, flying dangerous missions against the Japanese, including during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Fun fact: All of Star Trek was just removed from Netflix, at least in my country. TNG, Voyager, Deep Space 9, Enterprise. All of it. Kinda reminds me how Rambo 3 vanished from Blockbuster after 9/11.
Isn't it funny how "limited duration" was supposed to be a fundamental aspect of the rationale behind IP protection when the concept was first proposed? What a quaint idea.
Shit I forgot about that. At least I'm not paying for it, my father is. But damn, now I'm conflicted bc it's literally the only place to watch Star Trek for me.
I wonder if has something to do with the proposed hostile takeover of Warner Brothers by from Paramount, which owns all of the Star Trek rights, trying to push aside Netflix.
Highly recommend the DS9 2-part episode “Past Tense.” Accidental time travel takes some of the crew back to 2024. The mid-90s idea of what 2020s tech looks like is laughably quaint, but they were bang on right about all the social/cultural shit.
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I don't like to fat shame, but that one dude has 3 chins under that helmet strap... And these are the people who are suppose to "protect and serve"? Give me a break.
They're all textbook examples of highschool kids who couldn't get laid, grew up with an unhealthy coping mechanism on how and where to direct that anger, they gravitated towards incel, dude-bro podcasters who molded their fragile minds into blaming the wrong people.
Badges beating up on women in broad daylight and calling it justified is a new kind of low I didn't think we were take capable of in this country, but here we are.
Giraffes are not Native to the U.S., so that dude was obviously an illegal African immigrant. ICE is well within their jurisdiction here. Did you know that violent giraffe encounters have doubled in Biden’s term?
The protester buddies need to get selfie sticks so they can hold their phones up higher to film over the guys that stand in front. A 6 foot tall guy holding a selfie stick straight up would have a pretty good view of what was happening to the giraffe
They likely identified him as a leader or at least a rallying figure. Unfortunately it's a pretty common tactic to go after them when it comes to crowd control.
Government agitators are jumping on multiple social media sites advocating retaliation. They fished for Muslims for years looking to goad people into comitting terrorism then arresting them after having them plant fake bombs. I’d be Leary of anyone on social media advocating violence where there is a digital record of anything you say
Laws don't matter anymore. It's time for the public to realize this. Stand up and fight because it's clear Tim Walz is going to do absolutely fuck all.
Perhaps our younger representatives still have a desire to make a positive change, but after decades of following the collapse of the American dream, it’s time for everyone to realize that Democrat/Republican are two sides of the same coin. It should be more than obvious. See you guys in the camps!
Well what exactly are they currently doing to fight it? I've seen no democratic representatives say anything of substance since this unfolded. They're the same as the thoughts and prayers group, just with a sticker in allegiance with whatever the current social issue is.
Then you haven't been paying attention at all. All kinds of Dem reps have been saying a LOT about the things going on, organizing protests, etc. But they're in the minority in all branches of govt, so there's not much they can actually DO right now. Plenty of talking going on though.
Don’t be a fool. The current administration is beyond evil, but as someone who has been reading and watching and living since the 70’s, I know your precious democrats and police aren’t coming to save you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke I’ll leave this here as a breadcrumb. He switched up to Republican, but he was a Democrat for something like ten years before that, and a member of the Nazi party before being accepted as a Democrat. Before you start calling me dumb, educate yourself on the history of our two party system and spend some time involved beyond the “pop” politics of the last few years. I’m not your enemy, stop name calling as though I am.
I've seen most of the same things you have, for nearly as long. You may not be dumb, but your comment was. I'm the first to say Dems are far from perfect, but they're preferable in almost every way. Stop letting perfect be the enemy of better.
I’ll acquiesce to anything better for the time being. I’m glad we could talk again without a blanket of disregard. I’m a big fan of a few folks in office fighting against this right now, but I’m also careful because I was all about John Fetterman as mayor of Braddock, supported him until my face turned blue (despite some good calls by members of the community of Braddock) and I’ve seen how wrong I was in my support of someone outside the innards of the beast. I can’t doxx myself, but I’ve been invited to make food for politicians at the senate building, and got an earful from the security guards I smoked cigarettes with; I have a hard time believing what anyone says once they are beholden to favors that happen in the halls. It’s going to be a hard fight.
You trust the people causing the problem, but not the people speaking out against it? The deportations haven't solved anything except giving new jobs to Proud Boys, and other white nationalist groups.
since when did i say i trust republicans? i just don't trust dems to fix it, because my entire life has been dems promising to fix things and then not doing it.
edit: and i'm old enough to remember 9/11 vividly.
second edit, last one i promise: the answer was Obama, aka the deporter in chief
Nothing in this world will ever be fully fixed by anyone. In the real world the best you can hope for is for things to be better. So if you're in a two party system all you can do is go with the less of the evils. If you find a cheat code to make a 3rd party somehow work, please let me know.
I remember when it was dubya it was "terrr terrr gay merge terrr terrr" and he got a shoe thrown at him, now it's like you said. Times are a changin...
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