I never understood that as the federation is definitely not a race, whatever "race" means.
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I never understood that as the federation is definitely not a race, whatever "race" means.
Q was speaking specifically about humanity from Earth, not the Federation overall.
Kor
The word "race" itself may be problematic, but in fact, biologists have endeavored to re-frame the terminology by promoting the concept of all humanity as a single, unified, biological "race," as opposed to being comprised of many separate races as has been the common social construct in the popular consciousness for so long. Michael Hadjiargyrou, PhD, for example.
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The remedy seems clear: Just get rid of ALL the laughs. No audience, no laugh track, no nothin’...ust put on the damn show and let the viewers decide when to laugh.
Again, though, Red Green doesn’t count, because it incorporates the audience into the actual show. So they get a free pass.
I think Cloud Atlas is one of the best films ever made.
Don’t we still use the term “human race” to refer to all of humankind?
Is this unusual? I thought it was a fairly common feeling. But either way, I agree.
I've always been loathing TOS-Kirk.
When I was a kid and Trek aired for the first time we used to play Trek. Everyone wanted to be Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Checkov or Bones (in that order) but nobody wanted to be Kirk. We all thought him way too irresponsible, spontaneous and foolish to be a leader. We considered him just the kickstarter for the respective adventure: he'd bring his ship and team into a dangerous situation and they'd use their intellectual powers to rescue themselves, their ship and him. To us, TOS was all about the crew, with the captain just as an afterthought.
(LOL if I'd made that confession/statement in the TOS-forum there'd be a flame war you could see beyond Pluto
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When I was a kid and Trek aired for the first time we used to play Trek. Everyone wanted to be Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Checkov or Bones (in that order) but nobody wanted to be Kirk. We all thought him way too irresponsible, spontaneous and foolish to be a leader. We considered him just the kickstarter for the respective adventure: he'd bring his ship and team into a dangerous situation and they'd use their intellectual powers to rescue themselves, their ship and him. To us, TOS was all about the crew, with the captain just as an afterthought.
(LOL if I'd made that confession/statement in the TOS-forum there'd be a flame war you could see beyond Pluto
)
The problem with the word "race" is that it has been tainted by centuries of misuse. To many people when you say "race", they hear "skin color".
Heh, indeed. "Unpopular opinion" can often mean "assert your individuality by holding yourself aloof from something other people enjoy."
To answer the cartoon's challenge: I'm a big fan of historical epics and so enjoyed Alexander (oliver stone's biopic about Alexander the Great), even though it's generally regarded as a ponderous disaster.
That cartoon skews it with its post 2k rule...which implies even bad films pre 2k were at least more likeable xD
Dunno about rotten tomatoes scores, but I like loads of films that are generally considered unpopular.
Matrix sequels, Wolverine Origins, Ghost in the Shell...
But the rotten tomatoes caveat skews it, because it’s a thing that allows people who kinda like things get a say...if they are motivated to defend the thing they like.
Cheeky cartoon showing how to skew data XD
Oh. I also liked Genisys, and certainly a lot more than salvation or even t3 tbh.
I liked the philosophy too. The sequels work fine in both regards tbh. I think the matrix sequels and the Star Wars prequels were the beginning of disliking something being a popular past time...it had always been around, especially when sequels really became a thing, and fandoms, but the Internet kind of made it into way to be a ‘rebel’. Thing is, it accelerated so fast, people would rebel against the idea of liking some things before they were entrenched as being popular....so we skipped straight to slating, or so it appears from outside. (The Phantom Menace was actually popular on the ground, but it makes for a better narrative if it never was.)
It’s like ‘I liked x before it was cool’ got skipped into ‘I hated x before it was cool, in fact I hated it straight away to save time, in case people liked it’.
That seems to be the way things have gone, and it's usually my preference too. But it is understandable that performers who learned their craft performing live might have a preference for that kind of audience reaction. And there will probably always be some place for live audience TV. Saturday Night Live without a studio audience wouldn't seem right.
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