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S-tier satire of the conservative “Trekkie” (please Gene, I hope you’re being satirical). I always think of Douglass Adam’s “rules” on growing old:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anytime someone says Star Trek’s progressivism was never “hamfisted” I usual just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield:

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the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Anytime someone says Star Trek’s progressivism was never “hamfisted” I usually just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield

I never understood that episode. I’m sure there’s some sort of metaphor there but I just couldn’t figure it out

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- Kirk@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It was clearly about how marijuana makes your children communist
  
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BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m mainly responding to your quote about new things being against the established order and my view of NuTrek is extremely biased since I mainly get my information from RedLetterMedia but do you think NuTrek ackchyually can sit on its own laurels?

I did watch Picard’s 3 seasons and I think it highlighted pretty well the problems with NuTrek:

retconning established lore to the extreme (slavery vis a vis androids is cool with the federation, earth has super drug problems)

gratuitous violence (I was disgusted watching the equivalent of SAW with the Borg torture porn)

action action action (can’t have any philosophy, gotta have fast paced machinegun phaser shootouts)

I could probably come up with more issues, but it’s been a bit and I’m never rewatching Picard. NuTrek is a far cry from the old thinking man’s trek and is really watered down.
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