benfell
@benfell@infosec.exchange
Ph.D. Human Science (Saybrook University, 2016), vegetarian ecofeminist (#vegan and #libertariansocialist) scholar, #anticapitalist.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 weeks ago:
@Corgana People fawned over her because she was a loving character who did great. That greatness emerged from her redemption and would have been lost to whatever the Federation's idea of a prison cell in the 23rd century otherwise.
I've been on social media for a while and I have to say, this has all the hallmarks of a flame war. So this is all I'm going to have to say on the matter. You can throw darts at her photograph on your own wall.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 weeks ago:
@Corgana That's what redemption is about. It's recognizing that even the greatest among us make mistakes and can still be great.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 weeks ago:
@Corgana she did redeem herself.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 5 weeks ago:
Star Trek also assumes a truly post-scarcity society in which capitalism plays, at most, a small part.
One of the problems we face in assessing human potential is that we pretty much only know of humans since the Neolithic, when authority and wealth became increasingly centralized. In the Star Trek universe, while authority remains hierarchical and highly centralized, economic inequality is somewhat diminished. These are different sets of social premises and the outcomes might vary.
- Comment on Star Trek: Scouts ☄️🖖🪐 | Official Trailer | Nick Jr. 1 month ago:
Yeah, this'll be a hard pass for me too.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 1 month ago:
@ValueSubtracted I recall noticing the sexism on Enterprise. I don't recall noticing it on Voyager, which had two strong female characters. But I'm an old man raised in a more chauvinistic era--I might not notice.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Cast On How Series Was Last Hurrah For “Boys Club” TV Before Me Too Movement 1 month ago:
By such standards, the Original Series (#TOS) seems positively regressive. I don't mean to defend this, but I'm guessing that, at the time, it was perceived that Enterprise needed to fit into that regression.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x04: “A Space Adventure Hour” 2 months ago:
@jalanhenning pretty normal for the era.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 2 months ago:
@dethstrobe this M’Benga fellow seems like the most interesting character of the lot, with a backstory we’ve only seen bits and pieces of. It’s a shame Paramount will probably kill off its Star Trek franchise before we see more of it.