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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Lucille Ball helped get Star Trek going … it was ALWAYS meant to be forward thinking.

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    10 hours ago

    It’s like those guys who say one piece isn’t political. Are we even reading the same thing? I guess we all interact with media differently

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    9 hours ago

    I started watching Discovery and Strange New Worlds recently. Honestly while it seems they are at least not so blatantly sexist as they used to be, in other ways, it seems like the newer shows are less political than the old ones. It’s almost like a hybrid between classic Star Trek, and the Star-Wars-in-Star-Trek-Clothing movies that JJ Abrams made.

    I like em though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      Yeah, they’re very watered down by liberal ideology. It’s supposed to be gay space communism

      Except that last season of SNW and its shudders eugenics. No idea what the fuck was up with that

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    13 hours ago

    Modern woke trek. No I’m not old it just came out…30 you say

    edit: @ummthatguy wasn’t being pedantic, I dylexia’d the maths and edited from 20 to 30 about the same time they commented.

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      14 hours ago

      They stopped because Star Trek is a tent pole series for Paramount online or whatever they are calling their streaming service now.

      They need to broaden the appeal and old trek doesn’t speak to the lowest common denominator.

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    13 hours ago

    Old Trek covered social justice issues by putting people who were being marginalized in our society in powerful roles, then having them do their fucking jobs, and do them well.

    New Trek covers social justice issues by having bridge crew members sitting around crying about childhood issues from 20 years ago while the universe is actively being destroyed, and instead of being kicked off of the bridge so they can get their shit together, the rest of the bridge crew sits around and comforts them while some no-name ensign silently saves the day in the background. Or some member of the bridge crew, completely unfocused and not paying attention to the problem at all, accidents their way into saving humanity.

    These are not the same.

    Most of that rant is about Discovery. I hate Discovery. SNW is much better when it comes to this.

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    16 hours ago

    Ok but what about MY feelings? As I have grown older I have atrophied into more conservative views in a way I don’t want to admit may be toxic and Star Trek is forcing me to grapple with that. I don’t think that is fair, I just wanted some light scifi entertainment fluff with no substance to it.

    /s

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      As I have grown older I have atrophied into more conservative views in a way I don’t want to admit may be toxic

      less that, more “my views have not changed though the overton window has and i don’t want to admit i’ve been living with and perpetuating toxic values”

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    15 hours ago

    I love how this meme glazes over the incredibly shit writing of NuTrek, or how the social presented in NuTrek are incredibly safe topics already popular on social media, instead of the some of the very controversial things that Trek has done in the past.

    The most controversial thing NuTrek does is being hated by anyone who actually understands Trek, and attracting a lot of tourists.

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    16 hours ago

    You mean the series, which showed an interracial kiss for the first time on tv? Not to mention TNG. Where a woman was the head of security. And the episode of the first series, where they had a society ruled by women.