[Rummyfan]

More at the source, a long interesting take on Star Trek: TOS. Which by the way is the only one I ever enjoyed, TNG being much too touchy-feely and once they hired Whoopie Goldberg, well.....

[left that other site]

Yeah...Whoopie ruined it for me forever.

[Rummyfan]

Star Trek, and in particular its iconic lead character, celebrated those things about Human nature from which Progressives, and our participation trophy culture in general, tend to recoil like slugs from salt... courage, risk taking, steadfastness, self-sacrifice and confidence in one’s culture and principles. One need only to have survived the COVID pandemic and its concomitant lockdowns and mandates to understand that Progressives no longer admire these things, that indeed they often seek to use their political advantage to suppress or even eliminate them altogether.

Risk IS Our Business

[Leaning Right]

TNG had better special effects. But the original series had better scripts.
What breaks the tie? For me it’s:

(Yes, I’m that superficial.)

[KC Burke]

Science Fiction is speculative fiction, not philosophy or non-fiction arguements of what the world should be or is in reality. As such there has been over a hundred years where the genre has contained speculation about sex, faith, reincarnation, Heaven, Hell, adulthood, man as opposed to animal, and all sorts of topics to allow a vehicle for imaginative speculation. There are plenty of conservatives that understand the value of the culture they have inherited who speculate and consider such worlds or times as described in Science Fiction.

We can whistle while we ride a bike.

[bigbob]

But tending bar was at least a job Whoopi was qualified for. Like AOC.