MU eye trouble. How?

[Crazy Eddie]

More "broken ground", I don't often recall when TOS was doing personal attacks against LBJ or Nixon. The show did comment on Vietnam, etc, etc, etc... TNG did its share of commentary as well, but how often did they go after current political figures as opposed to mere situations, either real or theoretical based off of real events?

"The Drumhead" comes to mind.

Also, "The High Ground" which is basically an allegory for the Troubles in Ireland and/or Israel vs. Palestine. Bajor vs. Cardassia has similar undertones but is far less specific.

STID had this line from Spock: "There is no Starfleet regulation that condemns a man to death without a trial, something I believe you and the Admiral are forgetting," which is a DIRECT and very appropriate shot at Obama's drone-strike program. And Admiral Marcus' agenda, plus his rant at the end of the film, echo the whole "War on Terror" concept pretty directly.

Hell, even ENT had the Xindi Probe as a thinly veiled 9/11 parable.

DS9 had Kai Wynn leading a boycott of Keiko's school because she dared to call the Prophets "Wormhole Aliens" instead of admitting they were divine beings and encouraging her kids to worship them. And in various times, the Bajoran Resistance came up as a plot point where they were indirectly compared to Hezbollah and had to come to terms with the implications of their terrorist past while also struggling to become something more.

 

[NeoStar9]

Wasn't everyone complaining that Disco's MU storyline lacked nuance? I mean hell, by the end, Lorca was paraphrasing Donald Trump, and they weren't being subtle about it. At all.

A lot of people always say they want something to be more nuanced or subtle. Yet they always complain when they don't understand something because they're not being hit over the head with the 100% direct meaning. People don't really know what they do want and really complaints about subtle, etc really should just be ignored. I mean we still have people that seem to be confused about what happen to Voq when the show has mentioned several times times with 100% clarity what happen to him. There is no hinting around. They directly stay what happen several times once the reveal happen. They were straight forward with it. Yet people want subtle or more nuance when they can't even pay attention and understand the directness!?

 

[Awesome Possum]

Maybe Earth's sun is different in the MU, not different enough to make life impossible. But even a minor difference is going to have an impact on all life that evolved on Earth, humans included.

 

[cooleddie74]

I prefer the nuclear winter scenario that affected Terran eyesight for generations after the Third World War ended. It doesn't exactly sound too plausible for such a photosensitivity to develop so quickly after a 21st century conflict but then we are talking about a franchise where many Romulans develop cranial brow ridges in less than 2,000 years, a medical injection dissolves part of the skulls of Klingons, alters their very DNA and makes them look like humans for more than a century and dimmer light reaches a planet tens of millions of miles away from a sun as soon as the star is destroyed. Science is both a strong suit for the Trek franchise and a pitfall.

 

[Discofan]

A nuclear winter is most likely to cause the extinction of nearly all life on earth as it did 65 million years ago after the fall of that giant meteor.

 

[dahj]

Terrans evolved beyond crying because that's a sign of weakness, their tear ducts have atrophied so their eyes are as dry as Vulcan in summertime. Hence, eye trouble.

 

[Discofan]

Terrans evolved beyond crying because that's a sign of weakness, their tear ducts have atrophied so their eyes are as dry as Vulcan in summertime. Hence, eye trouble.

Plus they don't have a second set of eyelids like the Vulcans.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wish the actual writing had been as good as that "tear ducts" post. Well done.

 

[Discofan]

Maybe it because of Dark matter and Dark energy. I've read that it's possible that they could influence our universe from another one, where they would actually be situated.

 

[Rhodan]

If you haven´t done it, you must watch new Sfdebris video about Emperor´s new Cloak. His "frustration" with MU is so nailing. I am relly looking forward when he reaches "Despite yourself".

 

[Vger23]

If you haven´t done it, you must watch new Sfdebris video about Emperor´s new Cloak. His "frustration" with MU is so nailing. I am relly looking forward when he reaches "Despite yourself".

No thanks. If I want to listen to a couple of childish malcontents rip the show, I can do that very comfortably right here.

 

[Discofan]

No thanks. If I want to listen to a couple of childish malcontents rip the show, I can do that very comfortably right here.

Malcontents are the easiest to come by commodity of this universe.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

No thanks. If I want to listen to a couple of childish malcontents rip the show, I can do that very comfortably right here.

There's more than a couple