Don't confuse your personal preference (which is fine) with the norm for society at large. And how does a TV show cursing "debase society", exactly? That's absurd.
I think to say it's absurd, is absurd. I am so not puritanical... But then to dismiss it is also absurd. I wouldn't say fuck to my boss. Many wouldn't say it to their mums (I do). I wouldn't have said it to my gran. I couldn't have said it to my teacher. if you said it to a stranger on the street, it'd probably be negative. Until that day that kids are taught fuck at school as part of their vocabulary, personally I would have preferred Trek to remain an inclusive show - because (won't repeat it, I said it above) Trek had a huge influence on my life and it seems a shame that today's kids can't be brought up into it.
You missed my point completely. I didn't dismiss his decision to not want his child to hear the f-word or his personal objection to its use. I explicitly said that's fine and I have no problem with that, because how he chooses to raise his kid is his business, as is his personal viewing preferences.
I dismissed the ridiculous notion that using the f-word as a positive expression of wonder in a show clearly marked as being for mature audiences on a streaming platform that a child just can't wander into seeing and that you can screen beforehand and skip over the offending scene if you want to watch it with your kid somehow has the potential to "debase society." Society will be just fine.
I just became a marketing minion.... but people like Mae Carol Jemison became an astronaut, inspired by Trek. She was ten when The Original Series aired. Imagine if she was excluded... what would her life have become?
Again, you are making the same mistake he made of assuming that your preference represents the norm of how people will react to this. Not all parents or people prioritize cursing, especially when used as a positive expression of wonder rather than an insult or description of sex, on the same level as violence or sex or other factors.
It's odd that in a show that features Klingons being shown nearly beheading Starfleet guards, torturing people, stabbing people in the heart, getting disintegrated into a green mist, having their faces burned off, etc. that it's an expression of awe at fantastic space travel using the f-word that is drawing so much ire. I don't recall a camera focus on throats being split apart by a blade being a feature of Trek before either, and I think that would be far more problematic than a child hearing "This is so fucking cool!" which, unless they've been raised by wolves, is a word I'm sure they've heard at school before.
I would imagine that enthusiastic scientists and astronauts have abundant opportunities during their schooling and career to say "This is so fucking cool!", so the notion that hearing it in the context of expressing wonder at space would dissuade them from pursuing that life course rather than strike them as a natural reaction doesn't ring true.
