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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...

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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Let’s give Picard some credit, it spent most a season giving us a look at the challenges of building a community while evading immigration officers, and the heartbreak of losing someone whose only crime was being “illegal” or undocumented.

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bouh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yes indeed. But the season before that it showed us a planet were romulan migrants took over the planet they took refuge on and made an apartheid for them.

There are a few good things in Picard. There are also a lot of terrible things.

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- ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t think that planet was portrayed as a particularly idyllic place…
  
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  - bouh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That is irrelevant to the matter.
    
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    ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The implication is that the portrayal of bad things is somehow an endorsement of bad things, so it most certainly is not.
    
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- Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  migrants took over [an area] they took refuge on and made an apartheid for them.
  
  That sounds familiar.
  
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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d say they took it even further than that - the reason they were in that all-too-relevant “past” to begin with was that they had travelled back in time to an inflection point that could lead to a global descent into fascism.

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