When did the #NoJoy executive order go out that we have to be serious at all times? I must have missed it. Got forbid anyone makes clever/timely (or funny/dark) pop culture references right now.
I keep thinking the same thing @chanda.bsky.social (haven’t quite nailed down properly replying here in 🦋so pretend that 1st GIF is on this instead 🤷♀️🤣)
I swear, the possibility that we might be in our Bell Riots era and we'll turn it around with time and a lot of work has been one of the things that's been keeping me going.
That's because we are the Mirror Universe. The Star Trek series are dispatches from the Prime Universe, trying (and sadly failing) to warn us to change course. :)
“By the year 2025, not only America, but the entire planet, will be under the protection and dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial both for ourselves, and for you, the human power elite.”
I loved star trek but stopped after next gen. I just looked up these episodes and now will post Bell’s riots all over my fb feed. Lol. Because in all likelihood we will end up there within these next 4 years.
My fourth grade teacher told us that by 2020 Latinos would be the majority and that Americans will have to learn Spanish I’m 60 years old now and she was pretty much right that’s why the creators of 2025 are scared and are deporting us
It’s not our fault that we believe in family before careers and have children and yes there are hundreds of Latinas that have businesses of their own and hold powerful corporate positions! So fuck 2025 because they can’t get rid off everyone
That is why the MAGA cult members are so frightened. What they don’t understand is that Hispanics are not a monolithic group. Pendants, pollsters, and political consultants should not treat it as such.
Although to be fair, John Gill did that because he mistakenly thought benign Nazism would work. But he was drugged by Melacon, who was the real villain.
On the upside, if Musk or Zuckerberg or their minions discover warp technology, the Vulcans could come and save us from ourselves. Mind you it's more likely to be on Temu first.
In Star Trek it was supposed to be a eugenics war on a planetary scale. Well genetically engineered viruses and their toxic, mRNA vaccine counterparts are pretty close to the model that Star Trek described.
It's desirable by the low IQ, inbred, backwards, Moral Majority in the USA who have the intellectual level of a 6th grader or below,.. (Statistically 54%+ of US adults).
A minority of people smart enough not to touch the hot stove still has fewer votes & bullets.
Remember that everyone we see in Bozeman was living that whole post-apocalyptic lifestyle at the time; First Contact takes place after WWIII.
(Hence why the key physicist is drunk-working in this outfit in an abandoned nuclear silo, instead of a JPL lab with cleanroom suits and random testing.)
I mean I personally would probably go ahead and skip to around twenty years after the Enterprise B was commissioned; the Romulans began their whole multiple-decade disappearing act, there was a détente with the Klingons, and the Cardassian and Borg conflicts were still far in the future.
Also by then you have TNG-grade matter replicators so scarcity really isn't a practical concern anymore.
(Except for lots of things, actually, but boy howdy does that get aggressively handwaved away even when characters are literally standing on the acres of prime French real estate they own.)
There does seem to be a scarcity of real alcohol in the future, so I’m not looking forward that much to it.
Synthehol doesn’t look like much fun and it seems that Romulan Ale is contraband and hard to come by
Didn't they also say that oil would be gone by the 2030's and wildlife by the 2050's? Science fiction is based on facts that haven't materialized yet. Just like a show that was out before I was born called Knight Rider. We currently have self driving vehicles. Horrible self driving vehicles but they
This comes up a lot with older media making social commentary. Many problems are ignored and kicked down the road, things stay the same, and then the "predictions" "come true".
In the Universe, with gravity, and warping of space and time, when big decisions or discoveries take place, does make one wonder if maybe a visitor from the future may have lent a little advice.
Yes they did. Deep Space 9, went back to San Francisco in August 2024 Past Tense, showing discrepancies between the rich and poor, homeless camps, it was pretty close for a show made in 1996. 😁
Oops, no alt text, here is the alt text: on top Benjamin Sisko smiles while making the chef's kiss gesture - text reading "living in the Star Trek future",
bottom image is Sisko hugging his son Jake, both look as though they are having a miniature existential crisis - text reads "Living in the Star Trek future before the Bell Riots.
Not me opening this thread in hopes of gaining some insight. I haven’t watched Star Trek, but at this point I’m looking anywhere for reassurance that things will turn around.
I love that we were a little behind on the timeline so we decided to just go ahead and have the bell riots, world war 3, and the eugenics wars all at the same time!
Said the Time traveler "conspiracy" about felon45 and Not-seize around this time. My Polish grandfather fleeing starvation & drafted into WWII - "Those ungrateful boomer kids." Loved summers with the Depression Era elders. Insightful & skilled learning in the survival garden.
Decade isn't out yet. The population of NI crossed the threshold where there are more republicans than unionists now and after Brexit it's only a matter of time. UK has also flirted with violating the GFA post Brexit.
I’m disappointed we haven’t seen the Irish reunification yet- I’m a bit worried we are going to get the ghettos pre-bell riots. Hopefully we will also get the bell riots either way.
There's a lot to say about Ferengi values overtaking Federation Values. We need a lot of Roms and the TRUE Sean Aloysius O'Brian (no the Teamsters one)
The Nazi MAGA GOP fascists remind me of many Star Trek episodes and the movie Ten Commandments. So simple yet so complicated for the most simple of people. No wonder financial predators prey on MAGA GOP commoners most often
Octavia said she studied history, and imagined what the world would be like in 30 years, if the current problems were compounded because they weren't fixed.
We've been walking into this present reality for years and decades now.
But we obviously survive and then, whaddya know? We suddenly are colonizing space. Now who do we know who is into space stuff that we might thank for that?
Wait, if you're serious enough, won't you be able to stop the New Oligarch Order? Just Mod Podge your upper lip to a piece of cardboard, never laugh - ever, wear accountant button down and khakis, and keep an agenda from the 1990s. That will surely stop the DAUGE tide. I might have a pair of Dockers
How do you know we don't already have them, but the Bill Der Bergh Bunch thought systemic injustice purge was too slooow. Maybe they decided to send the mysterious Serratia fog and the newly minted vasculorespiratory viruses to cull us instead. Who knows?
Condescending? Nah. That implies she’s talking down to everyone else, which doesn’t appear to be the case at all. Dark humor is a coping mechanism. You may not like it, but it’s not about you.
You can't post your way out of fascism. Now go sit at the kids table so those who are willing to sacrifice everything can do what finds to be done. Either wake up or shut up.
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You are obviously the serious person in this scenario
SCARAMOUCHE
SCARAMOUCHE
but there is no draft folder option
(Was I holding a monkey paw I forgot about or something?!?)
If the latter, then a literal genie could have granted it
“By the year 2025, not only America, but the entire planet, will be under the protection and dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial both for ourselves, and for you, the human power elite.”
Also: Stay Asleep, aka not WOKE.
Which you know, fair
It's possible.
On
Schedule
I'm willing and ready to take my chances with a new timeline.
💙💙💙🦋
A minority of people smart enough not to touch the hot stove still has fewer votes & bullets.
I was promised prime!!
(Hence why the key physicist is drunk-working in this outfit in an abandoned nuclear silo, instead of a JPL lab with cleanroom suits and random testing.)
(Except for lots of things, actually, but boy howdy does that get aggressively handwaved away even when characters are literally standing on the acres of prime French real estate they own.)
Synthehol doesn’t look like much fun and it seems that Romulan Ale is contraband and hard to come by
i guess i should get hype for the "post-atomic horrors"
They are definitely skipping earth
As Data has proven. If the prime directive is a partner to crime its null, noteworthy.
What with the Eugenics Wars and the rise of Khan Noonien Singh.
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....we are SOOOO boned....
A Starfleet officer's first duty is to the truth. None of us deserve to wear that uniform.
We've been walking into this present reality for years and decades now.
MY posts are condescending to you. Maybe learn the difference.