I Can’t Stand Gene Roddenberry

The Freehold ^ | August 19, 2012 | Jonathan David Baird

[EveningStar]

Sorry to all you Star Trek fans out there. I may be the only science fiction fan in the universe that really hates his guts. He stands in the annals of history with Karl Marx as one of the most vile perpetrators of socialism and communism this planet has ever known. I call him the used philosophy salesman…. and he was good at that job, one of the best.

Today is the anniversary of his birth and I have been constantly reminded of this all morning. Tributes everywhere I look to the man who turned the brains of a generation of science fiction fans to utter mush. If only he had passed on ten years earlier. We would never have had to put up with the inane techno-babble ramblings and neo-communist preaching of the Next Generation.

[Melas]

That is just blasphemy. Like the vast majority of geeks, I hold Roddenberry in the highest of esteem.

[j_tull]

There was absolutely no ‘equality’ on the Enterprise.

Of course there's no equality. It's a military (naval, really) organization.

[RedMonqey]

It was a friggin' tv show about a guy using his ship and crew to get him into situations where he could do some shoulder roles, shoot aliens, chew scenery, and bag a few green chicks. There's no deeper message to be had despite all pretensions.

Ah but Roddenbery WAS pretentious!

For most of the audience it was just space opera/ cowboys with lasers but for him and other shows that started as pure mindless entertainment that slip a liberal bias into the plotline, it became a sly way to spread their "righteous" doctrine and make money as well.

[Future Snake Eater]

It’s FICTION. Superman can’t really fly either. :-(

Oh yeah, then how do you explain this?

[Lazamataz]

And for safety belts, the ship doesn't actually touch the inertia dampening fields - an anti-gravity bubble field does, so the actual inertia is transferred from the AG field to the ID fields.

[Melas]

Firefly had potential, but the show was ruined by the spacebilly dialogue. I couldn’t get past the so called captain of a spacecraft drawling, “I conjure it does.” Gak.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Star Trek was good. A bit shallow but fun.

TNG was boring. It was so painfully self consciously PC that it sucked all the fun right out of the concept.

[Lazamataz]

Space craft with springs on the outside....

[Bryanw92]

>>(gawd, I’m more of a geek than I thought)

Start a Star Trek discussion and you always find out who the geeks are! We’re like moths to a flame.

[Dick Vomer]

[Revolting cat!]

Exactly. And the message was embarrassingly simplistic, kindergarten stuff.

[RedMonqey]

Start a Star Trek discussion and you always find out who the geeks are! We’re like moths to a flame.

HaHaHa So true

And people with a lotta "dead time"

[ClayinVA]

but if you figure it out, the Air Force would be really interested in talking to you. The major limiting factor in Modern Airplanes is the pilot not being able to handle more G Forces.

[tanknetter]

Anyone who hates the Orion Slave Girl is a homo.

I hate the Orion Slave Girl. However I definitely have a thing for Batgirl.

Oh, wait a minute ...

[RedMonqey]

It sure wasn’t Shakespear but it would help kill a rainy afternoon ...;-)

[AU72]

It’s impossible to say what effect these technologies would have on a society.

Not to mention, and never broached in Star Trek, is that life spans would be almost indefinite.

[boop]

"Wouldn't you say that's worth a mans soul?"

Funny, I was just thinking about that episode today.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I laugh at the economy of the United Federation of Planets because the near limitless energy of the antimatter reactor, combined with the matter replicator actually make communism work.

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Combine that with the “holo-suites” and you’d have very few people motivated to explore the universe.

Most of the population would be fat perverts living bizarre virtual fantasies.

If you don’t believe me, look at liberals.

[Delta 21]

[qam1]

And Fuses!!!!

In Star Trek the number one cause of death on the ship was exploding consoles

Ship gets hit by a phazer or something, the shields hold but somewhere a console explodes wounding or killing someone.

Serious, put a 5¢ fuse on the thing or at the very least the poor operator should be wearing a blast shield of some kind