Yes they absolutely could, but won't because when you have no spine you have to use a serpentine locomotion (ie a wiggle) & when you have to wiggle to move you got no balls.
the key is that we only expect to be killed in fiction. no one who is not actively serving in combat positions or has recent memory of such is going to calmly say this kind of thing out loud, because we are not soldiers expecting to die.
Definitely watch it. It’s probably one of the most highly praised and interesting psychologically/philosophically. Also check out “Darmok”. That’s probably my fav.
Your best case scenario when throwing in with Trump is that he’ll get around to pardoning you after he lets you take the fall for him. You get to be the tool of his ambition and whim, and a slave to the mercurialness of his moods.
It's weird how some shows like West Wing are conceived as focused on one character and evolve into ensembles, and others like Mash or Blake's Seven are conceived as ensembles and become focused on one or a few. Roddenberry fought against Spock taking over TOS.
I would go out on a limb and say the administration is full of Cardassians, but even Gul Dukat and his flying monkeys have more brains and guile than any of these chowderheads.
Nah,.. good chance Jesus was real,.. the "Mythology" around him though is a demonstrably, blatantly, and obviously stolen from pagan religions to "sell" and convert people to their church's control mechanisms.
Worth noting the "Jesus" we all see depicted is the nephew of a very corrupt pope Borgias (insert some number here), so white Jesus is some Roman dude that was made to represent a Mediterranean dude. Religion's been racist and exclusive AF for as long as it has existed.
True dat.
Christianity more so than most and a BILLION times more so since Western adoption,.. most other religions aren't racist, but are almost entirely exclusive/clasist.
It's funny to me that in making a movie about a horrible dystopian future, they thought they'd make it just *slightly* more acceptable by ignoring what happened to black people in the book.
What would that accomplish besides watering down its message.
Guessing they just wanted to appeal to the widest possible number of viewers. Not a lot of black people would watch if everytime a black character was introduced they were missing for the rest of the show by the next scene.
absolutely. It'd help us all to read more future visions, bc some very smart people have turned out to be really good at seeing the current shit coming...
The best system is a capitalist engine driving, which is checked, governed, and maintained by a socialist societal understructure. (ie what the USA was SUPPOSED to be until Reagan & THF detailed it all & the 2 party system sold off ALL the checks/controls/regulations/balance/protections to the rich.
Love this. I think Star Trek should be shown in all schools to teach again how to behave and respect the truth and other people. And logic and reasoning.
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How is that working out for you? That is exactly why we have an orange shitgibbon in charge instead of demonstrably the most qualified candidate in decades.
Nihilism is your solution? Or do you have something else that will actually produce a result? Because if you do not suggest a path to improvement, all you are doing is complaining. Single-issue voters and/or not voting is a choice, but not a very wise one, as we can watch playing out in real time.
Same happened in the uk with Corbyn. The two party system is bullshit. Run by puppets. No free media. Plutocracy. No democracy. Then people disengage and populist racists bigots get in.
While a two party system sucks, an attempt to buck that system at the national level by voting third party top of ticket in a presidential cycle is dumb. For a viable third party to exist, the changes have to be local and off cycle. Otherwise Stein swoops in every 4, steals votes, then disappears
Nope, you have a fascist because you allowed a fascist billionaire to own your media and a group of bought corporate gimps to decide who represents the opposition. When Bernie was looking good to bring actual change your ‘democrats’ rigged the game and all candidates jumped to push him out.
Yes, he is a fascist. And an orange shitgibbon. It is both. I did not allow shit. Try “you all,” or go pound sand. You, sing., have made “both sides” arguments that are a false equivalency logical fallacy. If you, sing., voted third party, then you, singular, are as culpable as non-voters.
We need to be careful not to dehumanise anyone, whatever their views, or we fall to the same level they do. Show people it is possible to do better. Only a few will take the better path but that is still more than before.
Be cruel to the cruel and kind to the kind. They exploit kindness and build concentration camps. That slippy slope bullshit has no place when we're already in free fall. Their anguish is proper and moral
What's even more baffling is how some of my fellow American Trekkies just don't get it. Ted Cruz is famously a fan of the show, and it's wild that he somehow absorbed none of the lessons and values therein.
It's like how I've met republicans into rage against the machine. Like wtf do you like about this band because you are part of the machine they rage against.
Oh my goodness - really? Ted Cruz likes Star Trek? Well I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, as many right wing nuts - including actual Nazis 🤢🤮- have appropriated my beloved Tolkien. Tolkien abhorred Nazis!
The extremist pipeline really screwed the pooch for online geek communities. Trekkies gave A LOT more push back, at least, against the rising tide of anti-woke rhetoric. But the MAGA Trekkie phenomenon is and always will be an exemplar for how comfortable bigots are with extreme cognitive dissonance
Exactly true. And as I said to online bigots when they were telling ppl not to use fascist and Nazi to describe MAGAs...1900s fascism/Nazis is just one iteration of a repeating phenomenon in history, after all Mein Kampf is filled with centuries' old blood libel against the Jewish people.
What is happening now is nothing new, it has been repeated over and over again throughout our nation's and our world's history, just (only slightly) re-branded for this generation. That's precisely why the CORE philosophy of Trek still resonates, because there will always be a need to check bigotry
This would have to be the lamest kind of posing I'd ever heard of.
If I had to guess, I'd say he genuinely enjoys Trek bc he mistakenly thinks that liking it makes him seem smart. That and he, whatever, likes photon torpedoes or something.
My first reaction to all the people complaining that "Star Trek: Discovery" had gone woke:
Short version: did you people ever actually watch Star Trek?
Long version: It's not like TOS had an episode with aliens with half black half white faces trying to kill each other because their faces are reversed while the crew pontificates about how racism is stupid that ends with their whole race dead.
Oh wait. It's called "Let that be your last battlefield"
Note that he’s always been deeply unpopular, the least popular president since approval polls were begun.
It’s not American voters that have created the issue. It’s that our Constitution is outdated, and our establishment is loyal to the wealthy more than they are to Justice or stability.
Fortunately, the protests a week ago indicate that the US is probably going to stop the democratic backsliding. And the UK is learning from example (with the seeming exception of the PM and MPs).
But simply winning elections isn’t enough for the US. It needs changes as big as the UK 1830 Reform Act.
All of the yellow-belly law firms in America who either capitulated to Drumpf or are considering doing so need to take a lesson out of Spock’s lesson of “fuck you” diplomacy handbook.
"And that is called paying the Dane-geld; / But we've proved it again and again, / That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld / You never get rid of the Dane."
Trek fans wondering how Tasha Yar is now Romulan is sending me.
Anyway, the US relied on other govs, organisations and states to falter on demand so i guess save for a few judges that is the character of US institutions.
Ah shite - this is beginning to trend…can I just say:
Tony Donnelly, you were the most sarcastic bastard team lead I ever had. Thanks *very* fucking much.🤦♂️🤷♂️🤣
For the 1 in a million, you & Seaton see this - you should have done standup.
Nothing beats working class Scots office banter tbh.
You’ll be stripped to the bone for no apparent reason, but yer pals will take their coats off at 7pm on a Friday & not leave the office til you’ve done the business, even if it means you all stay to 3am.
I would extend that to any threat. Every threat is really a promise. The person who makes the threat just told you what they plan to do regardless. Treat them with that promise in mind.
It's only logical to resist but we cannot do so by gentle means. I do not believe that a velvet revolution will work against the tyrannical forces of evil enveloping our country. We must FIGHT! Maybe not with weapons but with everything else in out arsenal including class action suits
Just make sure you pick your battles so that on your way down you can be sure to take a few of em with you--or at the very least leave them something to remember you by whenever the weather gets damp
The Next Generation, Episode is Reunification I think? Spock is trying to reunite Romans and Vulcans. ( I can't remember which part I think it's a two-parter). (as an Aside..Discovery showed that it took several hundred years, but it did happen!).
Oh, the episode where SF has the unhoused dumped in walled off part of The City and the rich live in opulence, with extreme income inequality...(suddenly remembers my old job advocating for housing in SF).
Um...well...they haven't built walls. Yet...
I'm honestly gobsmacked at the number of people who don't understand that that's how it's going to play out. They just want the joy of making you violate your principles first
Once you violate your principles you have lost them. Every one of those law firms are shite in the eyes of those watching what they've done and intend to do. The quid pro quo costs MORE than their principles were worth to begin with.
Evidence of people who either never watched Scifi or never learned anything from it. Scifi has been teaching these lessons for decades, as long as people had the ears to hear it.
Notice that the places which have said, "Nah, we're keeping DEI" haven't suffered any worse—and in many cases have fared better—than the businesses and schools that rolled over.
Yes. In TNG she was (spoilers) killed by a goo creature (a puddle of printer ink if I understood) in season 1 or 2. Then returned. It turned out her mother Tasha Yarr was kidnapped and assimilated into the Romulans and was living peacefully there until she died. The Romulan is her daughter.
IRL Denise Crosby's character was kinda sidelined and not given a great amount of agency. Denise was unhappy with the role and felt like she wanted to do something more then press buttons in the background. So she left.
I'm overdue to revisit STNG, which I loved during the Clinton years... Lots of us were sad when her character was killed by the Goo... I expected that some writerly sleight of hand would bring her back.
I thought her character was underused, and then after her unfortunate encounter with the oily goo they seemed to try to find reasons to bring her back. She was one of my all-tine favourite ST characters.
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Not with DJT leading the way.
And btw, why am I rooting for them to dunk on the orange julius?
For all of our faults, those once were the goals. Even in government.
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It's safer to be Trump's sworn enemy than to be his 'friend' or give favor
Your best case scenario when throwing in with Trump is that he’ll get around to pardoning you after he lets you take the fall for him. You get to be the tool of his ambition and whim, and a slave to the mercurialness of his moods.
#RESISTANCEISBEAUTIFUL!!!🌹
Not that that’s a metaphor here or anything.
Christianity more so than most and a BILLION times more so since Western adoption,.. most other religions aren't racist, but are almost entirely exclusive/clasist.
What would that accomplish besides watering down its message.
https://bsky.app/profile/viennease.bsky.social/post/3lkrdimgb6c2o
Can I have a 3rd option , where you can just wear jeans and a T-shirt?
Choosing a uniform vs being forced into uniforms.
But the forced option is so disgusting I just wanted to have a laugh to ease the tension for a few minutes
Should follow the Book of Spock
– Movie Gandhi
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❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁❤️
SPOCK: I will not read this or any other statement.
ENEMY: If you do not, you will die. All of you will die.
SPOCK: Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate.
ENEMY: I hate Vulcans.
Protest! Vote Blue!
Blindly voting -- without thinking through the position (or positions) -- is not better.
Thanks for the comment.
How is that working out for you? That is exactly why we have an orange shitgibbon in charge instead of demonstrably the most qualified candidate in decades.
They’ve spent 60 years trying to steal his legacy and make it theirs.
If I had to guess, I'd say he genuinely enjoys Trek bc he mistakenly thinks that liking it makes him seem smart. That and he, whatever, likes photon torpedoes or something.
Short version: did you people ever actually watch Star Trek?
Oh wait. It's called "Let that be your last battlefield"
Republican = Romulans
Untrustworthy, cruel, scheming authoritarians who love kidnapping and concentration camps.
It’s not American voters that have created the issue. It’s that our Constitution is outdated, and our establishment is loyal to the wealthy more than they are to Justice or stability.
But simply winning elections isn’t enough for the US. It needs changes as big as the UK 1830 Reform Act.
Concur.
You know what you did.
https://bsky.app/profile/alexiacharlotte.bsky.social/post/3lhvumhleb222
they have power they refuse to use.
giving in to a bully never works to appease him.
saying “see you in court”
is the best defense - use felonious chunk’s go-to line against him.
Anyway, the US relied on other govs, organisations and states to falter on demand so i guess save for a few judges that is the character of US institutions.
“Which part of ‘FUCK OFF’ didn’t you understand?”
BITD we manufactured the vast majority of PC/Server/laptop for IBM in Europe. Talking 1m+ units in a *month*
Stress?
Aye pal…
Whatever
Tony Donnelly, you were the most sarcastic bastard team lead I ever had. Thanks *very* fucking much.🤦♂️🤷♂️🤣
For the 1 in a million, you & Seaton see this - you should have done standup.
Norfolk & Goode…
Experts in that field…
I *miss* that 👍🏻
Im laughing my ass off 30 years later for the timing & form. Absolute comedy geniuses.
The setup took weeks.
The jokes happened once every few days - but we all knew the script.
We said nothing - that would spoil the fun!
You’ll be stripped to the bone for no apparent reason, but yer pals will take their coats off at 7pm on a Friday & not leave the office til you’ve done the business, even if it means you all stay to 3am.
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Live long and prosper!🖖
We will not comply✊
They meet in the two-parter "Unification".
(Sela only appears in the second half of the two-parter, but was in a couple of earlier episodes.)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_II_(episode)
Season Five Episode 8
Unification (Part 2)
Season 5 of STNG has a lot of outstanding episodes
Um...well...they haven't built walls. Yet...
This is a most agreeable course of action 🖖🏾
https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ?si=STQEfnYn8ISCCEP6
Notice that the places which have said, "Nah, we're keeping DEI" haven't suffered any worse—and in many cases have fared better—than the businesses and schools that rolled over.
not sure whether my first reply or this is worse lol
I’m Spartacus