Watching Star Trek IV. Hippies still a thing back then in the 1980s? Spoilers in case

[urrutiap]

Besides having Spock act like a hippie or whatever, but also the thing with the situation with the whales with subtle hints of people being eco terrorists wanting to do something about whales or whatever.

then Chekov a clueless Russian from the future going around blurting out Nuclear wessels out in public and Im surprised street cops didnt arrest him or anything

 

[fireproof78]

Having seen hippies and meeting eco activists since the 90s and 2000s I think they could safely be said they were still a thing in the 80s.

then Chekov a clueless Russian from the future going around blurting out Nuclear wessels out in public and Im surprised street cops didnt arrest him or anything

Probably wondering if he had a mental problem.

 

[Kor]

Sure, there were people who stuck with the hippie 'ethos' even after the heyday of the movement. By that point, the surface trappings of hippie culture such as music and clothing had already gone hugely mainstream and subsequently gone out of fashion. But ideas live on. As far as 'movements' go, the hippie ideas were kind of being adapted into the 'New Age' thing by then. Spock did seem more 'New Age' than 'hippie.' And San Francisco was an epicenter for that type of counterculture. So maybe Spock raised fewer eyebrows there than he would have somewhere else, such as, I dunno, some small town in the Midwest or somewhere.

Kor

 

[GeorgeKirk]

This was San Francisco less than 20 years after the "end" of the hippie movement. There were still TONS of them around, and Spock looked to be about the right age to pass for an "old hippie."

 

[Ssosmcin]

Jeez Tommy Chong is still a hippie.

 

[Turtletrekker]

It's 2024 and I'm still a hippie.

And proud.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I lived in the Bay Area in the 80's, there were hippies, neo-hippies, punks, mods and all sorts of subcultures wandering the streets back then. Though Santa Cruz was more of a hippy place than San Francisco back then.
Saving the whales and the eco movement was more of a 70's thing, though I'm sure the roots were in the 60s