Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x05 - "Charades"
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Khan gave an exact year of when he left earth.
Yes. Can't stand stereotypes. My wife found an AI picture generated to show Idaho as a person. Quite eye rolling.
Because of course. Bigots are always gonna bigot even if they claim to embrace Star Trek's philosophy.
One of the things I liked best, growing up watching TNG, was that species/race/gender were irrelevant; it was all about respect for life, especially sentient life, curiosity, integrity, and service in pursuit of a noble ideal. Everyone was striving to be their best self and work well as a team while they gallivanted about the galaxy.
That’s a great message and an optimistic vision of the future that’s broadly appealing.
That’s a great message and an optimistic vision of the future that’s broadly appealing.
My mom and my grandparents raised me the same way, and I'm just as baffled as you are about how people can just be that way. My criteria for people are as follows...
1. You aren't a douche, bitch, or a dick to people.
2. You aren't trying to hurt people.
I think this is a pretty simple set of rules to live by when it comes to dealing with other people. You'd think keeping it simple would work for everyone, but apparently not.
Right. He also said that a thing had happened at thus and such a point in the past.
If we agree to play the dumb game of pretending that these are real people and not actors reciting lines, let's stipulate that Khan would never lie about such a detail because he wanted Kirk to know exactly who he was and where he came from.
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Some of those are hilarious.
I certainly remember people being upset over the PC-ness (1990's "woke") of DS9 having a black man as a lead and then Voyager having a woman captain and the episode with her and Belanna working out a solution to the episode's problem while ignoring the men in the room (boy did THAT trigger people!) This BS has been going on forever. How *did* people really react to that interracial kiss or a Japanese and Russian man being social equals with a white man?
Stereotypes boil down to having contempt for “the other”, which is antithetical to the ideals of Star Trek.
Not to say that we shouldn’t be able to laugh at our own and others’ foibles in a good-natured way.
There's a reason all the most popular Trek pairings are the non-canon ones.
I laugh at own foibles all the time. Remind me to share the rake story sometime.
My favorite was New Mexico.
Sheesh, some Southern NBC affiliates refused to air "Plato's Stepchildren" in 1968 and had social media existed during the Vietnam War I have no doubt "fans" would have excoriated Trek for having white stud Captain Kirk kiss a black woman who's a junior officer. Hell, NBC and Paramount Television got letters from perturbed fans who had issues with the show in addition to the diehard fans always trying to save it from being canceled!
Is this ironclad? I’ve heard this a few times but I’ve never found compelling evidence (to be fair, I’ve not devoted much effort, though).
I don't know for sure. Nobody I've seen has ever debunked the story and said those Southern stations weren't miffed about that episode's content. In the same way CBS affiliates reserved the right to not air controversial installments of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour I can see Southern station owners being reluctant to broadcast that episode and deciding not to do so.
I know that guys like Justman and Solow have said the network was worried about it.
I thought I remembered this being debunked, maybe by the Fact Trek guys.
Although, it may not have happened for the initial network airing, I suppose some local channels may have left it out of their syndication rotation.
As to some Southern States not airing Plato's Stepchildren, I think that's more of a Star Trek urban myth.
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