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.
Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and-
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skydivekingair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 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 10 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.
CodeName@infosec.pub 10 months ago
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.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 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.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
…have you watched Discovery?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
She should have picked Battlestar Galactica, given that it’s backdoor Mormon fan fiction.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder if the Nauvoo in The Expanse is sort of ‘revenge’ for Battlestar Galactica?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuckin dork can’t even do the spocker right
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She really likes the Terran Empire and Section 31.
Ladybird@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I didn’t see the headline at first and thought she was showing off her engagement ring on live TV in the most awkward way possible, lmao
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Context?
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some conservative idiot with a camera in front of them called Star Wars to woke and then was like “that is why I like Star Trek”…… which obviously indicate said idiot has no idea what the first thing about Star Trek is.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Lmfaooooo
Star trek which has been openly gay and racially diverse since the fucking 60s? That’s the less woke one?
Most intelligent conservative ditz
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess they forgot about season 4 of Star Trek Discovery where Stacy Abrams was the president of Earth.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 months ago
Oh right, I’ll put the context in the post body.
Crankpork@beehaw.org 10 months ago
She doesn’t like Star Wars because it’s too woke, which is why she’s a Trekkie instead. Implying that Star Trek isn’t woke. Which is ridiculous.
Lucien@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Says the person who has obviously never watched star trek
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
“Star Trek is progressive. Star Wars is woke. Now, keep in mind I have no fucking idea what ‘woke’ actually means as I am incapable of inferring meaning through context.”
Juigi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
America you got some weird news hosts.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What the…
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Quick, someone tell her about Discovery
TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Where’s Hugh Dennis when you need him?!
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 months ago
[deleted]troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
First@programming.dev 10 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh wow, not only can I still see, upvote and reply to deleted comments, but when I hit reply in Jerboa I can see the deleted comment.
context:
Yay v0.19!
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 months ago
So strange… I can also see your reply to nothing (my own deleted comment is gone for me).
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love that she’s such a Trekkie that she doesn’t even know how to do the Vulcan salute properly, despite probably having seen images of it her entire life even if she never watched a single episode of Star Trek.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 months ago
Showing the back of the hand makes it look like she’s flashing some Vulcan gang sign, haha.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s this guy’s gang sign.
Image
theinspectorst@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's Mariner's sarcastic salute!
https://youtu.be/VnqLFjZD9pg
emptyother@programming.dev 10 months ago
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Spocker
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
It’s right after the shocker, but well before the minivan.
Poggervania@kbin.social 10 months ago
$50 says she’s just doing that old Volkswagen handsign from those commercials in the 2000s
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Far from groovin
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Vulcan gang sign.