The culture warriors over at Fox are angry at Disney so Star Wars Bad is the current messaging. Star Trek is just a blank canvas to them that is not Disney. Now, if Star Trek has a gay kiss or puts a black mermaid in charge of a fucking spaceship they’ll change their tunes pretty quick.
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skydivekingair@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My opinion: these hosts have to be so polarized on every opinion that they have to choose a side. Star Trek or Star Wars, she claims to not endorse Star Wars since it’s too “buzzword” and now has to identify as the opposite, despite having no knowledge or affection for the Star Trek franchise. I don’t know if it’s just the screenshot where she’s doing the hand signal backwards, but that’s about the most basic layman Star Trek cultural identifier out there. So of course she doesn’t know they have had non and third gendered species since TOS & Enterprise, along with a myriad of other issues addressed that she would get fired from that channel if she even reported on them as options.
CodeName@infosec.pub 8 months ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Has a gay kiss
Yeah. Good thing they haven’t had that going on for decades, and definitely didn’t have an episode centered on a lesbian love affair 29 years ago.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
29 years ago.
No they didn’t. That was at MOST 12 years, I’m sure.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 8 months ago
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 months ago
…have you watched Discovery?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
She should have picked Battlestar Galactica, given that it’s backdoor Mormon fan fiction.
Landmammals@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You had me at backdoor Mormons
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 8 months ago
Haven’t watched that masterpiece in a while. Completely forgot about the roller skates.
Thteven@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is that the sequel to Debbie does Salt Lake City?
ares35@kbin.social 8 months ago
the ol' poop hole loop hole.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder if the Nauvoo in The Expanse is sort of ‘revenge’ for Battlestar Galactica?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fred Johnson just booting them all off the ship and blatantly stealing it is one of my favorite parts of the show.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TOS had the first interracial kiss between a white person and a black person on U.S. TV. It also shows a socialist utopia where men and women of all races are equal, indigenous cultures are respected, and they try to talk out a hostile situation before they resort to firing their weapons whenever they can.
Fox News should absolutely loathe that.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
TNG basically had Riker fuck an alien trans woman in 1992.
Any trekkie who complains about Trek being too woke, is either a moron, or not an actual fan.
teft@startrek.website 8 months ago
DS9 had Jadzia reconnect with another trill whose host happened to be a woman. TOS had the first televised interracial kiss. ENT had a pregnant Trip Tucker. Trek has always been woke.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And, of course, Discovery has Stamets and Culber, plus their adopted nonbinary child.
I’m pretty sure Mariner’s up for anything.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
First televised interracial kiss in the US. I believe there was a televised interracial kiss on UK TV a decade earlier.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I will be forever disappointed that the higher-ups refused to have that alien played by a male actor. I am glad if it helps trans people feel noticed and respected though.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
Seem to remember Frakes being dissapointed with that too. Wanted a male actor.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The neat thing about post scarcity societies is that economic systems become moot so long as the government isn’t particularly oppressive. It’s still an hierarchical, and somewhat militaristic, society.
It also followed the old scifi serial blueprint they were used to.
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I thought about the Kirk-Uhura kiss but two things, they aren’t currently openly saying that shouldn’t be allowed (on Fox News) and considering she was a Yeoman or a Lieutenant at the time being kissed by her Captain is right along the “grab em by the pussy” narrative they side with.
You are right if they looked at any of the social establishments that the franchise embraces they would hate it.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They were being forced to kiss by telepathic aliens. They both even admit they have had feelings for each other in the past but it was inappropriate to act on them. I don’t think that applies.
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You know what I had forgotten those details. Good recall!