• webghost0101
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    1 year ago

    This is what went trough my mind when Elon Musk called star trek the best tv show.

    I literally cant come up with a show that is more fundamentally woke.

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      Yeah I think it’s really easy to brush aside how big of a statement the very existence of Uhura was. This was the 1960s and a black woman is being portrayed in a position of leadership on a space ship and it’s not a thing in the canon. Her gender, race, and country of origin are irrelevant to the star fleet, she’s an expert of communication, and so the enterprise is glad to have her. Then you’ve got Sulu who is canonically an Asian American played by a Japanese American who had been interred during the world war not all that long ago.

      In a time of political, racial, and gender unrest this series pointed to a future where those fights for equality and liberation not only were past and won, but so far so that it would be strange for any of the protagonists to imagine the other side. A world where anyone could become a starship captain like Kirk.

      Next apartheid Clyde is gonna say he’s been a lifetime fan of the twilight zone…

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      He also loves the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He doesn’t realize he’s most like Zaphod Beeblebrox or what that says about him.

      I wish Douglas Adams was still alive to tell him where to get off.

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      He also said the movie Parasite was his favorite film. I think he’s the kind of person that narrative and metaphor are lost on. Rather a vapid blank slate, that poorly regurgitates the last chalk image left on its edifice.

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      Either elon hasn’t seen star trek at all and doesn’t know what he’s talking about, thinks its a sci-fi space show or just has a really ficked up twisted mind that twists the show into what he percives it to be

      Star trek is meant to show Gene Rodenberry’s version of a better humanity that is primarily set in space

      Star wars is a space opera that includes exploring timeless issues, well atleast it was until disney took over and didn’t get the point to that at all and just replaced it with something else entirely

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      Sociopaths don’t really form their own opinions. They pretend to like whatever will ingratiate them with their target group of people. Elon wants to foster his techie pseudo-engineer image, so he picked a show that skews to that demographic.