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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I love that she's such a Trekkie that she doesn't even know how to do the Vulcan salute properly, despite probably having seen images of it her entire life even if she never watched a single episode of Star Trek.

What is that, the Vulcan shocker?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Showing the back of the hand makes it look like she's flashing some Vulcan gang sign, haha.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's this guy's gang sign.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, now it's time for @[email protected] to make a meme of him giving that salute and saying, "live short and fuck you."

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're always there for me.

Edit: By the way, that actor was also in the Twelve Monkeys TV series and he's really good in it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

*sigh* time to rewatch yet again

Who am I kidding, I'm excited to have the excuse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Don't you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

$50 says she’s just doing that old Volkswagen handsign from those commercials in the 2000s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Far from groovin

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My opinion: these hosts have to be so polarized on every opinion that they have to choose a side. Star Trek or Star Wars, she claims to not endorse Star Wars since it’s too “buzzword” and now has to identify as the opposite, despite having no knowledge or affection for the Star Trek franchise. I don’t know if it’s just the screenshot where she’s doing the hand signal backwards, but that’s about the most basic layman Star Trek cultural identifier out there. So of course she doesn’t know they have had non and third gendered species since TOS & Enterprise, along with a myriad of other issues addressed that she would get fired from that channel if she even reported on them as options.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (6 children)

TOS had the first interracial kiss between a white person and a black person on U.S. TV. It also shows a socialist utopia where men and women of all races are equal, indigenous cultures are respected, and they try to talk out a hostile situation before they resort to firing their weapons whenever they can.

Fox News should absolutely loathe that.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

TNG basically had Riker fuck an alien trans woman in 1992.

Any trekkie who complains about Trek being too woke, is either a moron, or not an actual fan.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

DS9 had Jadzia kiss another trill whose host happened to be a woman. TOS had the first televised interracial kiss. ENT had a pregnant Trip Tucker. Trek has always been woke.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And, of course, Discovery has Stamets and Culber, plus their adopted nonbinary child.

I'm pretty sure Mariner's up for anything.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Mariner is definitely down for anything. She’s dating the andorian Jennifer in a few episodes and she also went on a date with Steve Levy the conspiracy guy. She also dated an Anabaj to annoy her mom so…yeah.

She even says this in one episode (the Tom Paris one):

“Oh I’m always dating bad boys, bad girls, bad gender non-binary babes, ruthless alien masterminds, and bad Bynars.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I like that she had to classify Bynars separately from non-binary people.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I will be forever disappointed that the higher-ups refused to have that alien played by a male actor. I am glad if it helps trans people feel noticed and respected though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seem to remember Frakes being dissapointed with that too. Wanted a male actor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yes, he's talked about that before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The neat thing about post scarcity societies is that economic systems become moot so long as the government isn't particularly oppressive. It's still an hierarchical, and somewhat militaristic, society.

It also followed the old scifi serial blueprint they were used to.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The culture warriors over at Fox are angry at Disney so Star Wars Bad is the current messaging. Star Trek is just a blank canvas to them that is not Disney. Now, if Star Trek has a gay kiss or puts a black mermaid in charge of a fucking spaceship they'll change their tunes pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Has a gay kiss

Yeah. Good thing they haven't had that going on for decades, and definitely didn't have an episode centered on a lesbian love affair 29 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It has several gay kisses

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

She should have picked Battlestar Galactica, given that it's backdoor Mormon fan fiction.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You had me at backdoor Mormons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if the Nauvoo in The Expanse is sort of 'revenge' for Battlestar Galactica?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Fuckin dork can't even do the spocker right

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

She really likes the Terran Empire and Section 31.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I didn't see the headline at first and thought she was showing off her engagement ring on live TV in the most awkward way possible, lmao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Says the person who has obviously never watched star trek

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

"Star Trek is progressive. Star Wars is woke. Now, keep in mind I have no fucking idea what 'woke' actually means as I am incapable of inferring meaning through context."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Some conservative idiot with a camera in front of them called Star Wars too woke and then was like “that is why I like Star Trek”….. which obviously indicates they had no idea about the basic aspects of Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Lmfaooooo

Star trek which has been openly gay and racially diverse since the fucking 60s? And had kinda sorta trans character representstion by the 90s? That's the less woke one?

Most intelligent conservative ditz

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget that the Federation is supposed to be a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Didn't they do the first interracial kiss on TV? And there was the episode with these guys in it?

I doubt she's seen a single episode lol.

But since she is so worried about whatever "woke" is, she should be made to watch Andor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And there was the episode with these guys in it?

Yep. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. They had to make it really blatant to get executive approval.

Also, there's a ton of takes of (I think) Frank Gorshin fucking up his lines on the Star Trek Bloopers LP.

https://collectingtrek.ca/2023/05/25/blooper-lp/

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess they forgot about season 4 of Star Trek Discovery where Stacy Abrams was the president of Earth.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or season that 30 year old episode of TNG where Riker has a relationship with an alien who's trans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Or that really old TOS episode where the people were half black half white, and half white half black.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Oh right, I'll put the context in the post body.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

She doesn't like Star Wars because it's too woke, which is why she's a Trekkie instead. Implying that Star Trek isn't woke. Which is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
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