Kirk
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- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown - Official Game Mechanics Deep Dive: Rebuilding Trailer 3 days ago:
Same. It seems almost too good to be true.
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- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 4 days ago:
Well, the main criticism is probably too few Kelpians…
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- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
I certainly won’t disagree with that
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Jay-Den and Darem’s recent scene together illustrates it well, I think. And the negative reaction to it from people online who say things like “woke” and “cringe” illustrates that many people are so uncomfortable and afraid of the concept of being vulnerable that they dismiss it out of hand.
But to be clear, I actually went out of my way not to describe this as “new or groundbreaking”. If anything the messaging I highlighted in my OP has been the consistent through line for the past decade in DSC, SWW, and SFC (and to a lesser extent Picard). I (and many others who thought the new series have been too timid with their politics) have been missing the forest for the trees.
We can laugh now at TOS preaching the “illogicality of racism” to be self-evident, but during the time of scientific racism and Jim Crow laws, stating that self-evidence was considered radical. TOS never had an episode about Uhura earning her right to be on the bridge. She was just there. Discovery never had a plot line about Adira coming out as non-binary, they just did.
“Vulnerability is strength” is the radical idea of our modern era where things like emotional insecurity and ability to tolerate loneliness are held up as examples of strength, and not the reality, which is that they are the beliefs of a fearful person.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Labeling someone’s expression as “cringey” is dismissive in any context. It takes real strength to listen.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
I believe that dismissing something or someone because you personally find them uncomfortable (ie “cringe”) is ultimately a sign of weakness, and that’s what the writers are trying to tell us. It takes a very strong person to stand up and simply accept without judgement.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
The most recent SFA episode was brilliant with that
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Ah I see, you definitely misinterpreted. I was indeed describing them as two different groups.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think Discovery walked so SNW and SFA could run. TOS/TNG showed us a future where people wouldn’t be ostracized for their race/gender. The newer series are showing us a future where people won’t be ostracized for being their authentic selves.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
That is a small thing.
I extremely disagree but I’d be curious to know your thought process behind saying it. To me, it seems like the biggest thing and that every social issue ever addressed in every Star Trek series has this at it’s core.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Do you believe Discovery had a story arc about gender identity? I would encourage you to watch the show again because it absolutely did not exist.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
Hah! Sign me up for a unionizing episode too. And thanks for reading!
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
It’s supposed to be about a time when the drama doesn’t come from inside the house. When humanity is exploring the stars, not having a moment.
I agree 100%, but I’m also saying that’s exactly what’s happening and we’ve (at least I) just been too blind to see it until SFA. This current era is portraying a future where “strength” doesn’t mean swallowing your pain in order to conform and being ashamed of what makes you different. Real strength is the ability to be your true self, and (more importantly) the strength to radically accept others for being their true selves.
TOS taught us there’s no need to fear people with different skin color. SFA is teaching us that there’s no need to fear someone for exposing their vulnerabilities and expressing their emotions in a healthful way. It’s a radical concept for our time.
- Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 5 days ago:
I really don’t think I am. Star Trek has always wrapped social topics in a scifi setting. It just took me until now to recognize what social topic they’ve been advocating this time, and it isn’t “nonbinary people are people too”, or “Black women can be a main character”. It’s “Not being ashamed to expose your vulnerabilities is a sign of strength more powerful than the mightiest Klingon warrior”. And “Standing up and showing support to others being vulnerable” is a sign of strength too.
The way we are quick to dismiss those expressing their vulnerability as “being dramatic” is exactly the topic they’re addressing. They’re trying to make us ask WHY vulnerability makes us uncomfortable. Facing it dead on takes extreme courage.
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- Comment on STO Ships are Canon! Again! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
This guy here is LARPing as the regional manager of a fictional character.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
Right there with you. Section 31 kind of hit a so-bad-it’s-good again for me. And even Nemesis has the very cool space battle scene.
I could do without Enterprise Season 3, but it’s also not like I’m skipping it during a rewatch!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
Huh? Professionalism isn’t a quantifiable property. It’s also not objective. If someone works with Ake in a professional capacity and considers her to be a professional, then she is. To claim otherwise is illogical.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
I don’t like teen dramas and I don’t particularly like romance, can someone explain why I’m loving this show so much?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
I’m loving this show
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 week ago:
what’s up with Captain Ake being…extremely unprofessional?
Uh, are we watching the same show? She seems to have the complete and total respect of those around her, including Dadmiral and even the bad guy.
- Comment on Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions | Jessie Gender 1 week ago:
For the life of me, I’ll never understand the mind of a viewer who gives a shit about aggregated rating scores like that.
- Comment on Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions | Jessie Gender 1 week ago:
ok👍
- Comment on Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions | Jessie Gender 1 week ago:
Whenever I hear that a MAGA member is also a Star Trek fan:
- Comment on USS Guinan 2 weeks ago:
@grok remove the nacelles
- Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 2 weeks ago:
I have to assume the people who think Star Trek is woke now also believe drag queens in the 90s represented good christian values
