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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Original Content | 05/16/2022 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 05/16/2022 5:56:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz

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To: mass55th

I didn’t hear any reference to 1/6 but I did hear the reference to the Second Civil War, and that it was a fight over competing ideas of freedoms and rights.

And that, might actually come to pass.


41 posted on 05/16/2022 6:19:17 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: usconservative

Well then come over! I got an 8-ball, and Bambi and Suzy coming to my house!


42 posted on 05/16/2022 6:20:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Lazamataz

Dude! I’ll be there in 10 hours 42 minutes!


43 posted on 05/16/2022 6:20:42 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dsrtsage

Lord of the Rings was pretty good. It was The Hobbit that got all bent to hell. The female elf was hot but did not belong.


44 posted on 05/16/2022 6:21:25 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: Lazamataz

Yup

Ahead warp factor (whatever)

Beam me up

And the once in awhile dramatic “Now! (whoever)”


45 posted on 05/16/2022 6:21:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz
It’s been alright. Hints of woke without being wretched. Discovery was unwatchable on too many levels to watch. Picard has not been much better.

The second episode of SNW felt better than the pilot. I’ll check out episode three

46 posted on 05/16/2022 6:22:12 PM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
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To: Lazamataz

Sounds good. I’ll definitely check it out.


47 posted on 05/16/2022 6:22:29 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: newzjunkey
Hints of woke without being wretched.

I can endure slight hints. Hell, even TOS had some woke in it.

48 posted on 05/16/2022 6:23:19 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: vladimir998

No, it’s JT Kirk’s older brother.

Check out the synopsis from ST:TOS for an ep with Sam Kirk:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708441/

or fan wiki about Sam:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/George_Samuel_Kirk


49 posted on 05/16/2022 6:26:13 PM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Lazamataz

not sure I agree. Acting is so-so. Compared to most of todays acting, which consists of reading a script, it is good acting. They lost me when Capt. Pike was describing what cataclysmic events on earth and it destroyed 600,000 species! Not people but species.


50 posted on 05/16/2022 6:26:50 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh man... it’ll be hard to watch knowing what became of Pike.

Beep.

(Pike agrees)


51 posted on 05/16/2022 6:29:51 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Lazamataz
This is WAY better!

Star Trekkin'

52 posted on 05/16/2022 6:30:54 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: Lazamataz

Well done.


53 posted on 05/16/2022 6:30:55 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks for the link.

Been Trekie since Kirk.

Rewatched some Piccard and Janeway episodes a few years ago. The “woke” was strong in some episodes and I didn’t notice it at the time. (Didn’t fall for it either!)


54 posted on 05/16/2022 6:31:12 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Lazamataz

uh, dunno about the un-woke part. in episode one, they use scenes from the Jan 6 election protest at the capitol in their video montage of the unrest that led to world war iii.

. . . and they intended it that way. I’ll leave it to you to google it. so, it’s at least that woke.


55 posted on 05/16/2022 6:34:29 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Lazamataz

Hmmm...

Hadn’t even crossed my mind to take a chance and watch it...

Did not make it through episode #1 of Discovery before making an appointment with the dentist for a root canal instead...

Based on your opinion will give it a try... Just as soon as I finish watching the Firefly series for the zillionth time...

Times are tough...
Communists in the WH...
No Doctor...
No operating Constitution...
Maybe this Pike guy is the answer...


56 posted on 05/16/2022 6:35:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Lazamataz

Thank you for posting this Laz...seriously.

I’ma try it now.


57 posted on 05/16/2022 6:35:52 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: JohnBrowdie
I don't know if that quite qualifies as woke, though. If they used scenes from 1/6 as the start of the Second Civil War, they might be right! And it might be justified! We might need to Civil War!

As far as I could tell, no blame was truly assigned, it was just the reporting of the conflicts that happened. At least thats what I got out of it.

58 posted on 05/16/2022 6:38:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Lazamataz

The reference to 1/6 was visual, via (likely) actual footage of the protests from that time with picketers showing signs such as “audit the vote.” Pike calls it the fight over competing ideas on freedom and rights, or the second civil war, which then became the eugenics war, which became WWIII.
The eugenics war was when Khan Noonien Singh was using illegal gene therapy and selective breeding to create a master race (eugenics) and was forced into exile from the Earth for that. The trek fan wiki covers references to WWIII and the Second Civil War from other star trek series (Enterprise, DS9, TOS, Picard). I don’t know how much of that is true, though; I don’t remember all those references, just the KHAN! of TOS ep and ST movie fame. It’s just there for you to read, if you want.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Civil_War
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eugenics_Wars


59 posted on 05/16/2022 6:38:39 PM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Lazamataz

“It’s a damn good pilot. I hope they learned their lesson with Discovery.... stupid WOKE and over-the-top special effects.”

The Orville (although a bit uneven, combining comedy and sci-fi) is absolutely watchable, with “good enough” special effects that don’t blast your eyeballs every three minutes. It has been called the closest thing to “Star Trek: The Original Series” on TV.


60 posted on 05/16/2022 6:40:56 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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