An alternative timeline in which Elon isn’t a huge piece of shit. Hard to fathom, but it’s the only way I can see that working.
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Stamets@startrek.website 10 months ago
The fact that there are two references to Musk in Discovery is a bit disheartening. There’s this one from Lorca but another when Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.
I choose to believe that in this alternate universe he kept his mouth shut.
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 10 months ago
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 10 months ago
It’s near impossible to not be a piece of shit if your a billionaire. The only way to get that much money is to use people’s necks as ladder rungs the whole way up, then destroy the ladder after you got to the top.
Stamets@startrek.website 10 months ago
Honestly though. That or he listened to Public Relations people and decided not to be… well… himself.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe he learned to not be an asshole during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.
Ragnell@kbin.social 10 months ago
@Stamets I choose to believe thre was someone else by this name who wasn't an idiot. They mean the 22nd Century Elon Musk.
yukichigai@kbin.social 10 months ago
I would love it if they actually did that.
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Elaan musc
Cube6392@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Elian Müsc
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
I’ve not seen the newer star trek shows yet, but given the whole global war stuff that happens in the star trek universe between now and the time the stories are usually set in, perhaps crucial details about who Musk was were lost to history, and he’s just remembered for something spaceX did at some point, or he’s had a pr campaign that was successful at getting history books of the future to portray him in a more flattering light?
GuyFleegman@startrek.website 10 months ago
This line was foreshadowing Lorca’s origin. You see, mirror Musk was actually competent, making him the precise inverse of real Musk.
I don’t care that the timing is suspect and there’s another Musk reference in Discovery, I’ll die on this hill.
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.
I firmly believe that someone had to talk the writer responsible out of making Tilly a graduate of Bit Connect High School.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Think of all the shitty historical figures that are celebrated today because a century later no one remembers what they were actually like
yukichigai@kbin.social 10 months ago
Or people do remember but it's "not polite" to bring it up. How many schools are named after Colombus? Or Edison?
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
Edison might be a pretty apt analogy, come to think of it.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 10 months ago
A little bit out of the loop here, what did Edison do?
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No where near as much bad stuff as the internet thinks, likewise Tesla didn’t do anywhere near as much good stuff as people say - he’s didn’t even invent AC.
The elephant thing gets hugely overblown too, it was going to be killed regardless, he just suggested a quicker and less cruel method (they had intended to hang it)
roguetrick@kbin.social 10 months ago
At least Henry Ford was a successful businessman while he moonlighted as a fascist.
RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tesla is doing great because he isn’t running it. Same with SpaceX.
Stamets@startrek.website 10 months ago
That’s very true. However those people weren’t shouting their horrific views to the world through an internationally used service. They also weren’t reported on by worldwide media and memed to high heaven. There’s a pretty solid record at this point of Elon being a cuntwaffle. Hard to forget that.