Posted on 04/10/2022 12:19:03 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
A couple recent episodes of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard featured Starfleet crew members traveling back in time to present day to beat up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, free a busload of illegal immigrants on their way to be deported, and lecture that racism just “took off a hood and put on a suit” in the early 21st Century.
Traveling back to 2024 Earth to help save the future of humanity in season two, episode four of the show, titled The Watcher, the crew specifically heads to downtown Los Angeles to achieve their mission. After Captain Cristobal Rios (Santiago Cabrera) becomes injured, the Hispanic character finds himself at a medical clinic that specializes in treating illegal immigrants and others, like him, who lack identification.
Caught up in an ICE raid on the clinic, Rios is detained and brought to a detention facility to await processing and deportation. When fellow crew mates Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) show up at the medical facility looking for Rios, a nurse tells them: “Yeah, he was here. The doctor patched him up before ICE officers raided us....You know those assholes.” Seven chimes in: “Yeah, I feel like I do.” The nurse ominously adds: “But your friend, I hope you find him soon. Before ICE makes sure you never do.”
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A man sitting in the waiting area of the police station warns them:
Piece of advice, LAPD won’t have ICE detainees in their system, you want Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Look, you’re in the wrong place. Not that it makes any difference because if you don’t get to Cristobal before he’s transferred, gone. No trial, no paper trail.
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Tng was boring commie garbage. DS9 was ok.
The original wasn’t. It actually inspired people to become astronauts,engineers, and scientists.
As I’ve been harping on movies lately, Hollywood seems about split on what is more important.
Entertainment or propaganda.
Unfortunately one of the freed illegals gets drunk and kills Zefram Cochrane, thus Earth doesn’t develop the warp engine and we never reach the stars and take over the Federation. Everyone from Kirk onward disappears in a puff of time discontinuity leaving Seven of Nine and Raffi Musiker stranded on 21st century Earth.
And I am still waiting for Ricardo Montal-Khaaaan to take over most of the Earth in the Corinthian Leather war
I agree. TNG I can take in small doses. I’ve seen little to nothing since but it seems to have finally completed its slow descent into the abyss.
Star Trek’s last hurrah was the fan-produced “Star Trek Continues.” They tried very hard to get the look, tone, and tempo of the Original Series right and is surprisingly good.
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer, and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series, its sequel spin-off series Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.
Roddenberry's spinning in his grave - and the new 'woke' version of StarTrek will fail... Does this sound like a man who would beat up ICE and Police officers and aid criminals? NOT A CHANCE. A POX on the wokesters.
You have the right attitude about franchise entertainment. Anything new and good will eventually be corrupted and ruined. Think twice about what you spend your idle hours watching.
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer, and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series, its sequel spin-off series Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.
Roddenberry's spinning in his grave - and the new 'woke' version of StarTrek will fail... Does this sound like a man who would beat up ICE and Police officers and aid criminals? NOT A CHANCE. A POX on the wokesters.
He was friends with Jack Webb, an ardent police supporter.
The original Star Trek was great. McCoy Georgia Bones, Spock it is not logical, Kirk photon torpedos and where are the hot aliens,, good looking ladies as crew members, and smoking hot alien women of various colors, even green. The green alien was David Bouie’s wife to be, Imam. She was smoking hot and today is still a very attractive lady.
Today the series is political crap. Picard is a great actor but his political beliefs are socialism quasi Marxist. As my wife said, “it is easy to be a communist when you are rich.”
Picard is now a weak and senile old leftist, whereas the original Picard was just a leftist. I love how the powers that control what you see and hear like to destroy all our once admired semi-heroes.
How do you say “sickening” in Klingon?
Let’s Go Brandon!
Exactly. Where did all the space babes go? Where is Spock’s logic? Where did all the boldly going where no man has gone before go to? Into the black hole of wokeness.
“Ricardo Montal-Khaaaan”
He was great as Khan!
I was just a kid when I started watching TV but - give me some credit! - I stopped watching when I was still a kid, too.
I spend my idle hours reading, writing, playing musick, and f4rting around on the interweb.
The most interesting thing is, TOS was made I’m the 60’s, itstill looks as fresh today. TNG was made in the 80’s, it looks plastic and fake.
The writers were not that bad as recently as 20 years ago. Today? They can't even hide it. Fortunately there's a lot of good choices to watch on TV (via streaming). Cobra Kai is an old school classic but they've done it will. It is not woke like you think it should be and it's a nice homage to Karate Kid franchise while remaining relevant with its plot.
I’m a SciFi fan, but I haven’t seen any of the Picard episodes. I think I’ll pass, now.
“The original wasn’t. It actually inspired people to become astronauts,engineers, and scientists.”
And fired the imagination of many inventors.
I read a book about Star Trek many years ago. When the show premiered they had inventors calling and writing asking how they got things to work.
Roddenberry hated to tell them the Tricorder was a portable cassette player the prop dept jazzed up. A couple of Dr McCoy’s tools were salt and pepper shakers from the commissary, also jazzed up.
The biggest question was how they got the ship’s doors to open. Not only open but smoothly and quietly. Roddenberry hated telling people it was two guys behind the wall.
I imagine there are quite a few things in our daily lives that were first inspired by that show. Science fiction has been inspiring inventors and researchers since the first writer wondered what the future or an alien civilization might look like.
BTW, the first interracial kiss on American TV was on Star Trek, between Captain Kirk and Lt Uhura.
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