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  • Flying Squid
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    5 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.

    What is that, the Vulcan shocker?

  • @skydivekingair@lemmy.world
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    595 months ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid
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      585 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
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        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.

        • teft
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          DS9 had Jadzia kiss another trill whose host happened to be a woman. TOS had the first televised interracial kiss. ENT had a pregnant Trip Tucker. Trek has always been woke.

          • Flying Squid
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            175 months ago

            And, of course, Discovery has Stamets and Culber, plus their adopted nonbinary child.

            I’m pretty sure Mariner’s up for anything.

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              Mariner is definitely down for anything. She’s dating the andorian Jennifer in a few episodes and she also went on a date with Steve Levy the conspiracy guy. She also dated an Anabaj to annoy her mom so…yeah.

              She even says this in one episode (the Tom Paris one):

              “Oh I’m always dating bad boys, bad girls, bad gender non-binary babes, ruthless alien masterminds, and bad Bynars.”

              • FaceDeer
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                55 months ago

                I like that she had to classify Bynars separately from non-binary people.

                • teft
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                  35 months ago

                  She wants to be a throuple. No judgement here.

              • CCL
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                25 months ago

                Steve Levy the conspiracy guy

                now I’m even more mad my wife won’t let me watch discovery

          • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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            15 months ago

            First televised interracial kiss in the US. I believe there was a televised interracial kiss on UK TV a decade earlier.

        • Flying Squid
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          245 months ago

          I will be forever disappointed that the higher-ups refused to have that alien played by a male actor. I am glad if it helps trans people feel noticed and respected though.

      • @PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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        65 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
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        -25 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.

        • Flying Squid
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          125 months ago

          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.

          They were being forced to kiss by telepathic aliens. They both even admit they have had feelings for each other in the past but it was inappropriate to act on them. I don’t think that applies.

    • @CodeName@infosec.pub
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      245 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.

  • Redd-fugee
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    125 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

    • @dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Some conservative idiot with a camera in front of them called Star Wars too woke and then was like “that is why I like Star Trek”…… which obviously indicates they had no idea about the basic aspects of Star Trek.

      • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Lmfaooooo

        Star trek which has been openly gay and racially diverse since the fucking 60s? And had kinda sorta trans character representstion by the 90s? That’s the less woke one?

        Most intelligent conservative ditz

      • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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        135 months ago

        I guess they forgot about season 4 of Star Trek Discovery where Stacy Abrams was the president of Earth.

        • Hyperreality
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          155 months ago

          Or season that 30 year old episode of TNG where Riker has a relationship with an alien who’s trans.

          • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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            105 months ago

            Or that really old TOS episode where the people were half black half white, and half white half black.

    • Samus Crankpork
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      105 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.

    • “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.”

  • TWeaK
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    35 months ago

    Where’s Hugh Dennis when you need him?!

    • TWeaK
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      35 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.

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      Yay v0.19!

      • The Picard ManeuverOP
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        35 months ago

        So strange… I can also see your reply to nothing (my own deleted comment is gone for me).