Episode highlights:
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Prescriptive advice for the Second Nakba
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Projecting American cultural values on to allegorical Palestinians to make a point
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Lt. Data gets a smoochLt. Data arbitrarily pretends not to have emotions instead of just telling a girl he doesn’t reciprocate romantic interest -
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Picard moves people from their generational home and also wins the day with evil space legalese
I always thought ferengi represented American capitalism.
I understood them as representing humanities greed. All the races stand in for some aspect of humanity. Our violence, our suspicion, our logic, our greed, etc…
Some people did make comparisons to Jewish stereotypes and while there are a few I don’t think it’s too strong. Klingon culture has flavours of Samurai in it, but it doesn’t make them stand ins for Japanese.
I wouldn’t say American capitalism, just capitalism in general.
I thought they were supposed to be jewish characters since some of the antisemitic tropes for jewish people is their love of money and large noses.
I know I know… we’ll make their EARS big!!
And a lot of the actors playing them are Jewish
I would think the ears were their most pronounced feature.
They do. But lazy interpretations were made
Let’s be honest… the fact that hand phasers are able to blow up damns from miles away….
Says a lot about the values of the federation.
Seeing that Federation phasers are some of the weakest hand weapons in that universe, what does that say about the values of its enemies?
Federation phasers aren’t weak. The federation just prefers to stun people rather than vaporize them. Remember when Data used his phaser to shutdown that power grid? Or the time they vaporized rock with their phasers?
He phaser’d an aqueduct and vaporized something like milles of water one time.
Not to mention the times ships have used their phasers to fuck with the planet scale tectonics
Federation phasers are versatile. It’s keeping in line with their whole ethos. Yes the phaser can be used as a weapon, but it also doubles as a tool.
Kinda like a shovel.
I’ve never seen a klingon disruptor pistol do that. Have you? or Cardie, or any one else’s (though there was that time Quark was trying to sell some shoulder fire artillery…)
we don’t know what kind of range or power they really have. Just like how their starships aren’t warships, but they out class most other faction’s warships.the other factions don’t hide what they are though. (and the kind of firepower that can take out damns from miles away is simply unneeded in any battlefield at that level of accessibility.)
