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It's true. (startrek.website)
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I like how every modern Star Trek show just ignores the silly idea that everyone has given up swearing in the 23rd and 24th century.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Most trek shows were on primetime network television. Once they went to streaming, the swearing came back. 

    Although, even during the primetime network era, we got plenty of alien swearwords, mostly in Klingon. One or two in Romulan.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, but that was said in a movie where they could potentially have sweared as much as they wanted to. Or at least acknowledged that 'dumbass' wouldn't be some shocking thing to a guy from the future.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I laughed out loud when Spock went "OH F...." and then they cut to the title in STNW.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    SNW is getting better with its sense of humor.

    Now, PIC… apparently, the 25th century is the century of the potty mouth! It’s old man Picard and old man Riker dropping f-bombs left and right. Even old lady Seven getting in on the fun.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    My favorite instance of swearing is in one of the TNG movies (can't remember which one cuz it's been forever) when the Enterprise is going down and Data looks up at the viewscreen and the land is coming up fast and he just shouts "Oh shiiiiiit!"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I like the old shows more because everyone acts appropriately to their rank and station. In the new shows a captain can go like "fuck this ima go punch someone and act super emotional and irrational" because that's what a star fleet captain or anyone star fleet would actually do.

    Right. And nobody cares because he's the best man for the job for some reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I also miss professionals exploring space, solving problems with science and diplomacy, engaged in intriguing stories that explored the complex moral and ethical issues of the day instead of just blowing shit up all the time and with some superficial lip-service pandering to certain social issues just to appease fans but without much more lasting presence than mere tokenism and self back-patting for the effort.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    TOS: In the future, Americans and Russians will work side by side

    TNG: where do we draw the line between respecting foreign cultures and respecting trans people? (BTW this is still relevant. Ask a Hispanic conservative their opinion on "latine")

    DS9: Gee it sure was fucked that we couldn't have black people as Starfleet captains until now. Let's show you exactly what the 50s were like for black people

    VOY: Hey what if we hired a fraud as a native American consultant and made the captain a massive racist for drama?

    ENT: It's a prequel, so we have to make Starfleet less progressive somehow. I know, make the black and the Asian the lowest ranking officers on the ship and give them the worst writing

    DIS: idk I didn't watch it but apparently they think nonbinary people are new to Star Trek

    PIC: Let's make the worst and most right wing part of the Borg a central plot point I guess

    SNW: Star Trek is finally getting a blind actor! And we're gonna kill him off after one season!

    LDS: Hey what if we tried being progressive again and made a black lesbian a well written main character without either of those things being plot relevant because it's the future and these things aren't marginalised anymore?

    PRO: I like where your head's at Lower Decks, but let's also ask thorny questions about the value of cultural isolationism without giving a simple right answer

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    DSC: you want trans people to be seen in Trek? How about we make the only trans character a fucking ghost so they’re only visible to the only enby person in the galaxy, further isolating them both! How’s that for ‘being seen’? And, of course, because they’re both LGBTQ characters, they have to be in a tortured relationship. Sigh…

    The queer characters in that show were written as queer first and people second, resulting in them just coming off as token caricatures rather than solid characters that feel like real people.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can hear O'Brien cuss up a storm under his breath if you turn your volume up really loud

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The lack of swearing wasn’t originally part of the "utopian ideal", it was in fact censorship from the broadcasters.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The universal translator autocorrect used to be turned up to high. Probably for the best.

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