News Trans character announced

[Guy Gardener]

Alt-Right is not the same as just being a Conservative. That's why it's called "alt".

You may be thinking of Neo-conservatives or whatever the fuck the Lincoln Project is.

Alt-Right = Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

 

[Morgan Primus]

in the 23rd century it doesn’t matter

 

[JulieYBM]

I think all the Trek shows are sort of going for a different audience. Discovery is basically like a CW show. Young and progressive and woke. Basically it's target audience is millennials and younger. It's basically the one trying the hardest to bring in younger newer fans who didn't grow up on Trek and also wants to be what passes for cool these days.

Picard is the serious adult one. It wants to be the "Logan" of Trek. The one that gets respect form critics and fans who have wanted Trek to get more real and serious and considers things like comics books as classical art.



Jason

'Serious adult one'? How, especially in contrast to Discover?

Besides, Millennials are 38 years old at this point, they are the grown-ups.

 

[Nerys Myk]

in the 23rd century it doesn’t matter

They have xeno-Nazis there.

 

[cooleddie74]

Xindi-Brownshirts.

 

[Morgan Primus]

They have xeno-Nazis there.

lol

 

[Morgan Primus]

all good.nothing surprises when it comes to Trek

except when it isn’t a liberal shithole

 

[Jayson1]

'Serious adult one'? How, especially in contrast to Discover?

Besides, Millennials are 38 years old at this point, they are the grown-ups.

It features Patrick Stewart. Well respected Shakespearean actor. It has more violence and cussing in it plus sex scenes. No uniforms but regular clothes for the main characters. It's showrunner came from the world of books. It's main theme is even about things like aging and regret and basically stuff people tend to deal with as you get older. I think they even flat out said they were thinking about "Logan" when they made the show. The characters are more in conflict with each other while Discovery is a big lovefest. Everyone loves each other and is always talking about how proud or great so and so is. You literally got Tilly hugging a tree in the new teaser. And that is like the second hug in the teaser.

Jason

 

[Morgan Primus]

It features Patrick Stewart. Well respected Shakespearean actor. It has more violence and cussing in it plus sex scenes. No uniforms but regular clothes for the main characters. It's showrunner came from the world of books. It's main theme is even about things like aging and regret and basically stuff people tend to deal with as you get older. I think they even flat out said they were thinking about "Logan" when they made the show.

Jason

yea so British fgts would say that about Patrick Stewart. cheers

 

[Lord Garth]

And again, everyone, can we please try and keep the subject matter more directly related to Discovery and the introduction of the two new characters? I don't want to have to close the thread down but the characters and the show itself have barely been discussed.

I feel really bad for you right now.

 

[Jayson1]

yea so British fgts would say that about Patrick Stewart. cheers

I think if you said what I think you said that is very offensive.


Jason

 

[Morgan Primus]

I think if you said what I think you said that is very offensive.


Jason

0ffensive how?

 

[Morgan Primus]

next, you will have to explain why i would care about being offensive. i don’t care about some internet stranger’s feelings, tbf

 

[JulieYBM]

I wanna see more trans actors as background characters. Just make all the human background characters trans an non-binary.

It features Patrick Stewart. Well respected Shakespearean actor. It has more violence and cussing in it plus sex scenes. No uniforms but regular clothes for the main characters. It's showrunner came from the world of books. It's main theme is even about things like aging and regret and basically stuff people tend to deal with as you get older. I think they even flat out said they were thinking about "Logan" when they made the show. The characters are more in conflict with each other while Discovery is a big lovefest. Everyone loves each other and is always talking about how proud or great so and so is. You literally got Tilly hugging a tree in the new teaser. And that is like the second hug in the teaser.

Jason

None of those things are inherently adult or childish.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Look here, those of you trying to make Trek political in the current timeline should all get fucked sideways with a chainsaw.

Warning for trolling.

yea so British fgts would say that about Patrick Stewart. cheers

Warning for using a homophobic slur. And with the context there don't try and sell me some bullshit about it referring to cigarettes.

You're getting an automatic day off because of the two warnings and I'm reply banning you from the thread, which shouldn't bother you anyway since by your own admission you don't even watch the show and were only here to troll.

 

[Vger23]

I see that this has gone about as smoothly as I would have anticipated.

 

[Awesome Possum]

As happy as I was to hear this announced I had to prepare myself to have to read just how bigoted Trek fans can be and the absurd lengths to justify it and dance around the fact that they just wish that certain people no longer existed or were banished from society so they wouldn't have to know they exist.

 

[JulieYBM]

As happy as I was to hear this announced I had to prepare myself to have to read just how bigoted Trek fans can be and the absurd lengths to justify it and dance around the fact that they just wish that certain people no longer existed or were banished from society so they wouldn't have to know they exist.

Oof, yeah, this is something I'm always confused by. You'd think geeks would be more interested in sharing but I guess one's fantasy and science fiction hobbies can just be used to re-enforce a fear and desire to escape the reality of their responsibility to lift up marginalized people's voices.

 

[NCC-73515]

Karens refer to racist white women who use their 'white woman fragility' to intentionally get Black men murdered. Karens can go fuck themselves. If memory serves the term also comes from Black women, too. White people don't get to call 'Karen' childish because they aren't the ones being murdered by Karens' racism.

I thought anyone who wants to speak to the manager for absurd reasons is a Karen these days

next, you will have to explain why i would care about being offensive. i don’t care about some internet stranger’s feelings, tbf

Good to see that my first impression was correct.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Oof, yeah, this is something I'm always confused by. You'd think geeks would be more interested in sharing but I guess one's fantasy and science fiction hobbies can just be used to re-enforce a fear and desire to escape the reality of their responsibility to lift up marginalized people's voices.

What always gets me is that many claim that they felt some persecution for being geeks while younger, but can turn around and be even worse to a group they see as beneath them. In fact some seem to actually get a thrill out of it.