The_Picard_Maneuver
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- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming? 2 months ago:
Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.
- Comment on breaking the cycle of trauma 3 months ago:
Wholesome
- Comment on Don't read the fine print. 6 months ago:
- Comment on I'll never not want to 7 months ago:
She’s adorable!
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- Comment on Real! 8 months ago:
tugh pomlIj ngeH!
- Comment on If the food makes you sick, it's free 8 months ago:
I depends on how much you’re willing to put down.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
This is a quality shower thought.
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- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 8 months ago:
This is great! Followed.
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 8 months ago:
Oh my god, this is dark.
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- Comment on Enjoy a little conspiracy, as a treat 9 months ago:
Space Force makes sense now
- Comment on Enjoy a little conspiracy, as a treat 9 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not going to trust anything in the article, but I have to admit that it was a fun rabbit hole to fall down for a moment.
- Comment on Enjoy a little conspiracy, as a treat 9 months ago:
Yeah, this meme was the first I’ve heard of it, but from some googling, apparently conspiracy forums have been obsessed with this weird “censored” pattern in space since like 6 or 7 years ago. Reading old threads that were using this to predict the end of the world in 2017 while it’s currently 2024 is pretty entertaining.
Found this page that gives an overview: themanilafolder.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Dragon
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- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
This is why I love TNG so much. Even though TOS is the original that laid the groundwork for everything, TNG took that “boundless optimism” and ran with it. Watching TNG inspires me to continue to self-improve and encourage it in others.
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
Yeah, there’s a singular implied “universal morality” throughout Star Trek of accepting diversity and learning to not impose on other civilizations or each other on the basis of one’s biological differences or culture, even for Klingons! I’d say the rest is hard to define and subjective, as @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website said above, but post-scarcity and free agency in life to follow your passions has to be pretty close!
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
That’s a good point. I think this contrast between individual (often flawed) human judgment vs collectivist ideals has always been a theme. In TOS, you see Kirk calming McCoy’s knee-jerk reactions almost every episode. In TNG, it was Yar or Worf. In DS9, probably Kira.
Even then, I would say the collectivist ideals (i.e. Starfleet regulations) were more often portrayed as overly-cumbersome in implementation, which leads to someone like Kirk violating the rules in place of the ideals that they stand for. For example, how many naïve (but well-meaning) diplomats do we see in TOS or TNG? However, rules being restrictive or imperfect in an effort to support larger agreed-upon morals can still be trusted, compared to corrupt power structures, which cannot.
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
Ah damn, sorry about the paywall. It let me hit “continue reading” on mobile, but I know sometimes these types of sites can be inconsistent.
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
It’s just another tired bit about how following orders and perfect institutions are what Star Trek is really about, to hell with any evidence to the contrary.
I’d argue that the theme is less about following orders and more We are all individually flawed and are at our best when we follow our shared values - which is represented by both Starfleet and the utopian setting as a whole.
I can see the argument (for fiction and real life), that as we trust institutions less, our focus becomes more on individual judgement rather than collectivist ideas. It also tracks for me that as this occurs in real life, our media would reflect individualism more and more.
- Comment on Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? 9 months ago:
I’ve admittedly still only watched up through the 90s, but I’d definitely say that DS9 depicted a significantly more “morally gray” version of Starfleet than TOS or TNG.
I think the point the author is making is that the extent to which this idea gets explored is reflective of our society’s growing mistrust of institutions IRL, rather than suggesting the theme has never been explored.
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