What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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"This isn't Star Trek! Where's Gene's Vision? Back in the days of Disco, things used to make sense! And no liberal agenda was shoved down your throat."
"Star Trek was never woke back in the day! Hold on, let me rewind a scene or two in this TOS episode. It's the one with Frank Gorshin. It's actually a decent one."
Well I probably thought better of TNG season 1 then than I do now. Season 3 onward was pretty good then and it's pretty good now. The Star Wars Prequels aren't getting any better in my memories.
Can't we watch the one where they tacitly support the United States' involvement in Viet Nam?
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First we watch the subtle morality play where they haul out an actual U.S. flag in the third act.
I prefer the one about introducing disease to manage an overpopulation problem.
Written by Cyrano Jones!
I mean, I think it's clear that one of the effects of Borg assimilation is that they're not just merging minds together -- they're actively brainwashing the minds of the people so merged, and that seems to inhibit the capacity for creative thought.
That would be a really interesting story! I could definitely see this becoming a major political conflict between multiple factions who are all honestly acting in good faith to defend their principles.
I like the one where Kirk tries to get Scotty to get over his hatred of women by hiring him a prostitute on a brothel planet.
Jim Kirk is the ultimate ride-or-die commanding officer.
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Or the one where they let an entire people with sick genes die so that the other, healthy one, can thrive. I'll try to think of a real world parallel some other day.
McCoy just casually talking about how Scotty's got a total resentment of all women like it's a normal reaction to blame all women for one person's mistake.
At the risk of my Nerd Card, what episode is this?
They are referring to "DEAR DOCTOR" from ENTERPRISE.
Gotcha. WHEW! I was afraid it was a TOS episode I couldn't recognize.
I'm going on a trip to the East Coast, but when I get back I promised myself to do a rewatch of Strange New Worlds before the new season started. I remember liking the first season (Other than a character death I disagreed with and what they did to a legacy alien race) but it felt like the series came and went and that was it. I guess just so much has happened in the last year (Lower Decks, Prodigy, the final Season of Picard) that SNW has gotten lost in the shuffle. I will be interested to see how I like it on a second watch through.
A few people remembered TOS as all the great tactical Battles in space. I've forgotten was it two or three out of the 79 episodes?
I'm too old to define "Woke so I won't even try.
Star trek did a decent job of balancing left wing and right wing between Spock and Kirk with examples of how one doesn't succeed without the other. I'm not even sure that would be possible in the modern day.
I watched TOS-R last year. It's must be twenty years since I last watched TOS beyond just catching the odd episode randomly here and there, and I was quite surprised by how "being a bit horny" seemed to be a perfectly legitimate excuse for anything from "not paying attention" through "full-on insubordination" right up to "attempted murder", even amongst quite senior officers. Ah, the 60s, eh?
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