When the Bard in your DnD party tries to play for a morale bonus and rolls a “1”…
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Tell me you know nothing about Star Trek without telling me you know nothing about Star Trek.
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Art often acts as a mirror; people tend to see what they want to see in it. Star Trek is no exception… though personally, I cannot comprehend how some find it “apolitical” or “conservative,” considering the many years of episodes highlighting tolerance, acceptance, and cooperation…
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Its like people complaining The Twilight Zone in any iteration is too “political” or “woke”. The show began because Rod Serling was rebuffed trying to do a a fictional version of the murder of Emmett Till
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It’s like they never actually watched one episode of TOS because every single episode had some sort of social commentary.
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Except maybe Catspaw. No idea what was going on there besides “lets use these sets left over from Vincent Price’s last Halloween special”
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And “Turnabout Intruder” can go straight to Gre’thor with its misogyny…
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Back during the Sad Puppies bullshit around the Hugo Awards, Brad Torgerson, one of the ringleaders of the group wrote an essay about how the old days were great because there wasn’t all the social commentary and blah blah blah. When it was pointed out that he used TOS as one his examples of SF without social commentary he naturally got a lot of pushback. His response was that “those were settled issues”.
Naturally, this got a lot of derisive laughter.
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Good video. One of the things that he touches on, but doesn’t really get into, is the conservative distaste for scientific experts. There’s some quote from a conservative politician about how he really doesn’t think much about the collective wisdom of all of the climate scientists. While there is a championing of Kirk’s doing things from the gut, science and engineering also get their laurels, and he knows he depends on them, and he goes to them for answers. Spock is respected for his science. McCoy and other doctors are respected for their medical knowledge.
If Trump was a starship captain:
“Nobody knows more about warp coil ejections than me.”
“Nobody understands the intricacies of Vulcan logic as good as me”
And finally:
“Nobody knew SpaceTime anomalies could be so complicated…”
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He’d never admit that, he’d just blame those Vulcans and their liberal logic.
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One of the things people like about Trek (I think @anon61221983 said this) is that we’re all desperate for competency porn.
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He’d also go on and on about how he was really smart, because his uncle taught at Star Fleet Academy.
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We’ll have the plan for the solution for the anomonally ready for you in two weeks (enterprise spends all of eternity stuck in a causality loop)
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I mean, when was the last time you saw a story about people who are white on the left of their face and black on the right discriminating against people who are black on the left and white on the right?
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Dude needs to go back to HS english class and learn about metaphors…
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