‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Takes a Knee After Show’s Premiere

Breitbart ^ | September 25, 2017 | Jerome Hudson

[C19fan]

The cast members of Star Trek Discovery were slammed by social media users Sunday after a photo of the CBS show’s stars taking a knee went viral online.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I lasted five minutes before I turned off the TV.

A major league suck fest of a TV show.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I tried to watch that thing last night of curiosity, turned it off after about 10 minutes. I found it boring and considering it was supposed to be 10 years before the original Star Trek, the whole thing was wrong, uniforms included.

[dfwgator]

The NFL is just the beginning. This is a movement to tell the whole Leftist-Dominated Entertainment-Media Complex to Stuff It!

[vladimir998]

Way to go, Leftists, alienate more fans. Awesome!

[fieldmarshaldj]

This makes boycotting STD so much easier.

[sparklite2]

If you’re like me, you’re screwed.
As it is CBS’s nasty habit to shove the schedule down following a football game, my DVR started on time, but started out by playing twenty minutes of Oprah, then cutting Trek off twenty minutes early.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ass Dreck: The Final Rectal Prolapse.

[dfwgator]

[vladimir998]

“Let us not forget that The Original Star Trek show theme had lyrics that they never used. Solely because Gene Roddenberry wanted the royalties from it.”

True!

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek.asp

[ps425dc]

It amazes me that these people do not realize that alienating half of the population (potential viewers or customers) might be a bad idea.
I guess no geniuses on the cast.

[KC_Lion]

Where do you think I learned that Grace dear? ;)

[originalbuckeye]

‘Star Trekkin’
Across the Universe
Always going forward
‘Cause we can’t find reverse’

This song? Oh wait, this was a spoof of Star Trek, wasn’t it?

[LostPassword]

Issues/problems/disagreements can only be solved if both parties have something they agree on as a basis for discussing the disputes and finding resolutions. Some of the things we have used in the past are
* The US Constitution
* Other laws
* A court system based on rule of law and jury of peers
* Accepted language (meaning of common words)
* A common history
* Common goals of success for the country
* Shared interests - from the right to life&liberty to the NFL

The people kneeling down seem to want to throw away EVERYTHING that we have ever used as a tool for compromising, agreeing, or even discussing problems. How do they see us moving forward if we ignore the Constitution and other laws? And if words don't have a historic meaning we can agree on (e.g. "fair", "discrimination", "racist") so we can't even communicate what issues we have trouble with? What is the framework or process for even trying to find common ground?

We can't even use math/statistics/measurements that the other side doesn't like. If 40 of 100 students graduate, that IS 40%. We should at least be able to cite that then discuss whether it's true and if so what it means, and not be shot down for even using a stat. Especially when the people disallowing it love to cite stats on "gun violence" as long as we avoid stats on the individuals involved.

No matter how well meaning these people are, there is no way forward if the only answer is for the other site to sit down, shut up, and accept whatever comes.

What are the kneelers willing to leave in place (for now at least) to use as a starting point for understanding each other? Throwing away all language, history, laws, and experience from 1000s of years is a non-starter.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup, that’s about right. And you have America’s (Not So) Funniest Videos, AKA “Ow, My Balls !”

We’re living in “Idiocracy.”

[Grampa Dave]

That makes our life easy.

This deplorable Trump family will not watch a millisecond of this latest rehashed bs.

[wally_bert]

DS9 got better, at least for a while.

[VanDeKoik]

Didn’t watch the preview yet.....wont.

Still have the Expanse to catch-up on, so I’m not missing my sci-fi fix.

[PLMerite]

“Go Klingon!”

A Star Trek series from the Klingon point of view might be interesting.

[Darksheare]

And don’t forget the promo stuff all year hitting us with the fact they have a “GAY SCIENCE OFFICER” and by the way did we mention “GAY SCIENCE OFFICER”?
And every five minutes “GAY SCIENCE OFFICER!!”
And isn’t it grand “GAY SCIENCE OFFICER”!!
/ End barftastic recollection.

[pepsi_junkie]

Programmed for failure. Not one person in the photo thought this was a bad idea?

Come on, they all know that you get fired and blacklisted for saying anything about people who are just exercising their freedom of speech.