Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I always thought he was kind of a douche, but I guess his heart is in the right place.

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  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think Shatner is complicated because (a) he’s 95 years old, and can’t be expected to be fully “in touch,” and (b) has definitely had some questionable people handling his social media over the years.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      true, and he went with BEZOs into space as a tourist and became disappointed after, only for bezos to laugh for no reason after spraying him with ALCOHOL.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s shatner so you expect him to be crass, and you forget he was the first star trek captain. and agreed with the ideas being shown on screen (unlike, IDK, Barclay’s actor)

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jeffrey Hunter was the first Star Trek captain.

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realise the starring role of the TOS series , Captain Kirk was played by Jeffrey Hunter. How many episodes was he in?

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  • fixmycode@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    just, don’t ask him how many horses he has

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• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. I wish people like him, sulu, and stephen king would abandon it already though.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looking at the downvotes, I don’t think anybody realized you meant “abandon Xitter,” not “abandon using their platform for the greater good.”

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol! That’s too bad

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• Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recently learned that Shatner and Takei don’t actually use social media and all the posts you see from them are just some employees that were instructed to speak in their style.

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  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s possible on a regular basis.

    However, as with other high profile accounts, one expects that messages that are high profile would be cleared with the person under whose name the official account is made.

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    • Skv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not at all. Chapelle told that joke about hearing that “his” “official” Twitter account was having beef with Kat Williams’ “official” account. During one show when both of them were in the audience, he went over to Kat and told him the situation - to which Kat replied, “wtf is Twitter?”

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do recall an interview with Brent Spiner where he said something to that effect. I figured he (William Shatner) wrote some of them. I forgot about that.

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  • cygnathreadbare@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really dislike Takei’s one (Jay Kuo) because of how shamelessly he uses it to promote his own substack sometimes… and because of a specific substack post of his where he said “oh no it’s so bad Arizona got abortion banned… but there’s a silver lining, maybe they’ll learn to vote blue the next time” or some shit like that.

    +3M people losing their body autonomy and the first thing you think is “hey this can be a good thing for our campaign”?? fucking ghoul…

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