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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
- Comment on Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird 8 minutes ago:
I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.
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- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 8 hours ago:
Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.
they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent
“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
voodoo religious rituals
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well
And this is a known thing racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones
“Brown”
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 11 hours ago:
That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.
One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 19 hours ago:
It’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.
In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 22 hours ago:
Wut?
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 day ago:
I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.
Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 day ago:
I think the cranium size was the biggest “miss” in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.
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- 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soonwww.whats-on-netflix.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to startrek@startrek.website | 9 comments
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 5 days ago:
There’s absolutely no reason to think any show is being made “instead of” another.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 5 days ago:
I don’t think you needed [sic]
Just wanted to make sure - I stumbled over that sentence when reading it!
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 5 days ago:
It’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 5 days ago:
At SDCC CBS sent us a synopsis, essentially a workplace comedy on a vacation planet – not Risa, not in the Federation. So are those fundamentals are still the same?
Those fundamentals are the same. But what I can tell you is what we’re really working on exploring, are the sort of overlooked sections of what happens when a world and a culture that is not that was not [sic] in the Federation. What happens when they decide to be?… So Federation outsiders and what’s kind of the nitty gritty involved with joining the Federation and involved with… yeah, I’m really struggling [to avoid spoilers]
That’s an interesting adjustment…
- Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedytrekmovie.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 17 comments
- Hallmark Unveils 2025 Star Trek Holiday Ornaments — with Increased Tariff Pricingblog.trekcore.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on Behind the Scenes Bloopers from The Making Of 'Patrick Starship Enterprise' 1 week ago:
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- Comment on The Jedi can't get upset with you for forming attachments when your girlfriend is a hologram! 1 week ago:
- Tariff Updates — Factory Entertainment and Master Replicas Expect Fulfillment Delays; FanSets Stockpiles Domestic Inventoryblog.trekcore.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post 2 weeks ago:
I like the Circle trilogy - the Bajoran government being unstable is a fun element to those early seasons.
It’s a shame Shakaar was such a dud of a character, and the series sort of lost interest in the Bajoran civilian government as the Dominion and Kai Winn started to take up all the oxygen in the series.
- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 2 weeks ago:
Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y’know, cooking.
I’d be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.
- Comment on Canon Connections: PRO 2x13 - A Tribble Called Quest 2 weeks ago:
Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.
They quickly came to realize that that’s too many triticales.
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- Preview: Quark's Cafe, the 10 Forward Bar, and all the Star Trek Merch at Universal Fan Fest Nightsblog.trekcore.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
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- Comment on P+ SpongeBob crossover ad 2 weeks ago:
For me, it’s hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:
- Comment on Paul Giamatti Experiences The Eerie Stillness Of 'Black Mirror' And Teases Being A 'Bad Guy' On 'Starfleet Academy' 3 weeks ago:
It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.
I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.
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