What did Star Trek teach you INCORRECTLY?

[Paul Weaver]

That would be a first. Each time when it looks like democracy is on the right track, the nazis (or people like them) are making a come back.

Around this time in Trek history we had sanctuary districts, riots in France, and a planetary wide baseball league.

The only thing that seems out of step with trek history is the popularity of baseball.

 

[Kor]

... As for interplanetary reproduction, it's laughable. Not only genetically but also it's likely that these beings will seem repulsive to us, just as a giant spider, a snail, an octopus, a crab or an insect would be. That's probably the most ridiculous aspect of ST.

This was my biggest complaint about Disco's change to the Klingons. There have been Klingon-human pairings before, and they looked 'close enough' in terms of physical/biological compatibility. But their new appearance is grotesque and monstrous, and would just be too physically repulsive and off-putting for any human to want to willingly pair up with one of them. In response, somebody pointed out that many humans have really unconventional tastes when it comes to what they are attracted to.

Kor

 

[Discofan]

This was my biggest complaint about Disco's change to the Klingons. There have been Klingon-human pairings before, and they looked 'close enough' in terms of physical/biological compatibility. But their new appearance is grotesque and monstrous, and would just be too physically repulsive and off-putting for any human to want to willingly pair up with one of them. In response, somebody pointed out that many humans have really unconventional tastes when it comes to what they are attracted to.

Kor

Sure some are but I believe they are the exception rather than the rule. Like a guy who was found effing his car, through the exhaust pipe.

He's lucky he wasn't injured.

 

[Tim Thomason]

This was my biggest complaint about Disco's change to the Klingons. There have been Klingon-human pairings before, and they looked 'close enough' in terms of physical/biological compatibility. But their new appearance is grotesque and monstrous, and would just be too physically repulsive and off-putting for any human to want to willingly pair up with one of them. In response, somebody pointed out that many humans have really unconventional tastes when it comes to what they are attracted to.

Kor

To each their own. Will Riker was always up for anything, so his challenge of sleeping with "one or both" of his Klingon admirers makes sense, even if we imagine them as Kling-orcs. John Torres, Tokath, and K'Ehleyr's mother might all be the weird slice of humanoids willing to look beyond physical appearance for some Xeno-loving. Like Lanel (Bebe Neuwirth) from "First Contact".

 

[Nyotarules]

This was my biggest complaint about Disco's change to the Klingons. There have been Klingon-human pairings before, and they looked 'close enough' in terms of physical/biological compatibility. But their new appearance is grotesque and monstrous, and would just be too physically repulsive and off-putting for any human to want to willingly pair up with one of them. In response, somebody pointed out that many humans have really unconventional tastes when it comes to what they are attracted to.
Kor

IRL some humans consider pairing with other humans as 'physically repulsive and monstrous'. In the Star Trek universe such attiudes will go the way of the dodo, chances are by the 24th cenutry finding DISC Klingons repulsive and monstrous might die as well, apart from a few diehard Terra Prime humans. Kelvin Kirk had no qualms bedding two felinoid ladies, today we would call that bestiality, even if cats were sentient.

 

[Discofan]

IRL some humans consider pairing with other humans as 'physically repulsive and monstrous'. In the Star Trek universe such attiudes will go the way of the dodo, chances are by the 24th cenutry finding DISC Klingons repulsive and monstrous might die as well, apart from a few diehard Terra Prime humans. Kelvin Kirk had no qualms bedding two felinoid ladies, today we would call that bestiality, even if cats were sentient.

The operative words being "in the Star Trek universe".