a healthy society is our starship

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• lasagna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Folks who watched Star Trek and didn’t understand this missed a good chunk of Star Trek. I’d argue most of it.

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  • reeen@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Our Modern times in star trek are more like the Roman empire, slowly crumbling and about to collapse, which then leads to the actual dark age (I.e., WW3, eugenics wars, and whatever that was in the TNG pilot)

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• Datas_Cat_Spot@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d vote for a politician who ran on a star trek platform.

  Have we had any known Trekkies in office before?

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  • andresil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I also wonder this but would like to also add a caveat; has any world leader or politician been a trekkie?

    Close on the values of trek (humanism) would certainly be the Irish president for me (Michael D. Higgins)

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    • culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      seems like we’re on target for the Irish Unification of 2024 at least

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  • e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lookup GoodSpaceGuy, a perennial candidate on Washington state ballots. His platform is not Star Trek-based, but it is... out there.

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    • lasagna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The truth is out there too.

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• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mmmmmmnaaaahh. Let’s build apocalypse bunkers and burn this planet to the ground while civilization descends into hunger games.

  — rich fuckers everywhere

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  • buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Elon Musk naming shit after Culture ships while being Joiler Veppers.

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    • andresil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That shit pisses me off cause I named my home machines after them and now I can’t do it cause I expect people to ask if I’m copying him ffs

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  • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “The Expanse is so epic! That’s the ideal future, verbatim!” lord-bezos-amused

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• ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And also we need a nuclear war to achieve global communism and dolphins should be integrated into human society.

  (Just poking fun at Roddenberry’s connection to Posadism)

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  • culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We heart-sickle Our Space Comrades
    hexbear-posadist posadas posad posadist-nuke possadist-ufo

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    • ChestRockwell@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      picard-direct-action data-revolutionary geordi-yes

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still have hope in my little Posadist heart that the drastic addition of CO2 to our atmosphere, detectable at interstellar distances, will lead us to first contact with an advanced socialist species.

    And my little conspiracy theorist heart believes that's why they've kept UAPs hidden for decades.

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• Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay but let’s not do the part where a military tribunal has the power to decide if a being sentient enough to hold senior officer rank is also property that can be disassembled for science.

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• UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a good take and that’s also why I reject “sure the Torment Nexus is tormenting people in a nexus right now but in a fantastically different society it might actually be a pleasant and nice thing” takes on contemporary horrors such as cryptocurrency, microplastics, and data mining software.

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On the other hand, www.buildtheenterprise.org

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  • culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    rotating saucer artificial gravity is a cute idea

    this would be a cool spin-off/fanfic for The Expanse universe though

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