cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1505645
Alt text: Screengrab from Star Trek: TNG showing Data saying to Picard “the Irish Unification of 2024”
Happy Irish Unification year🎉
Submitted 10 months ago by KiraChats@hexbear.net to risa@startrek.website
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ummthatguy@startrek.website 10 months ago
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 10 months ago
Jesus christ that episode…
I dare anyone to Watch that and tell me casual racism against the Irish died out a long time ago…
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Americans need to stop cosplaying as Irish and acting like they even remotely understand the situation.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
This implies we could have gotten a TNG but someone changed the timeline
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Year just started mate.
alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 10 months ago
Starting the year out as an optimist I see!
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well, we also didn’t get the Eugenics wars or WWIII, both of which killed millions, so this time line isn’t all bad.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Before today, it was Fuedal Ireland. Just a bunch of Irish warlords vying for control.
gregorum@lemm.ee 10 months ago
let’s just ignore how the pretext for this line was Data explaining how, sometimes, terrorism is an effective vehicle for change.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 10 months ago
Sometimes it is effective. Just ask everyone who salivated over the PATRIOT act.
Now whether is justified is an entirely different story.
gregorum@lemm.ee 10 months ago
that was Data’s whole point. Then, just as Picard was about to dish out a bunch of huffy equivocation, their conversation got cut off. Trek was often bold in how it approached controversial sociopolitical subjects. And, sometimes, it scampered off without honestly addressing them.
this occasion was one of the latter.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 months ago
Important context. Damn.