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I Can’t Stand Gene Roddenberry
The Freehold ^
| August 19, 2012
| Jonathan David Baird
Posted on 08/19/2012 3:56:19 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: generoddenberry; hollywood; jonathandavidbaird; roddenberry; sciencefiction; scifi; socialism; startrek; thefreehold
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To: EveningStar
That is just blasphemy. Like the vast majority of geeks, I hold Roddenberry in the highest of esteem.
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posted on
08/19/2012 6:08:12 PM PDT
by
Melas
(u)
To: Bryanw92
There was absolutely no equality on the Enterprise.Of course there's no equality. It's a military (naval, really) organization.
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posted on
08/19/2012 6:11:46 PM PDT
by
j_tull
(Massachusetts once lead the American Revolution. Under Mitt Romney, it lead the demise.)
To: Sirius Lee
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.
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posted on
08/19/2012 6:12:22 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
To: Bryanw92
Its FICTION. Superman cant really fly either. :-(Oh yeah, then how do you explain this?
To: Talisker
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.
105
posted on
08/19/2012 6:13:01 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
To: SVTCobra03
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.
106
posted on
08/19/2012 6:13:59 PM PDT
by
Melas
(u)
To: EveningStar
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.
107
posted on
08/19/2012 6:14:46 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
To: Frankss
Space craft with springs on the outside....
108
posted on
08/19/2012 6:17:00 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
To: RedMonqey
>>(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.
109
posted on
08/19/2012 6:17:28 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: cripplecreek
110
posted on
08/19/2012 6:17:50 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
To: RedMonqey
Exactly. And the message was embarrassingly simplistic, kindergarten stuff.
To: Bryanw92
Start a Star Trek discussion and you always find out who the geeks are! Were like moths to a flame.
HaHaHa So true
And people with a lotta "dead time"
112
posted on
08/19/2012 6:20:21 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
To: Lazamataz
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.
113
posted on
08/19/2012 6:20:38 PM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Rebelbase
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 ...
To: Revolting cat!
It sure wasn’t Shakespear but it would help kill a rainy afternoon ...;-)
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posted on
08/19/2012 6:30:03 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
To: Excellence
Its 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.
116
posted on
08/19/2012 6:32:38 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: Tonytitan
"Wouldn't you say that's worth a mans soul?"
Funny, I was just thinking about that episode today.
117
posted on
08/19/2012 6:46:00 PM PDT
by
boop
(It's not personal...it's strictly business)
To: Bryanw92; EveningStar
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.
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.
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posted on
08/19/2012 6:49:55 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
To: Revolting cat!
119
posted on
08/19/2012 6:55:26 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: Lazamataz
And Fuses!!!!
In Star Trek the number one cause of death on the ship was exploding consoles
![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iackY.jpg)
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
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posted on
08/19/2012 7:10:49 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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