The "entertainment" is just a cover for the real business of pornography, sex trafficking, and money laundering.
Posted on 01/28/2026 2:21:04 AM PST by C19fan
A "Star Trek" actress says conservative backlash is pushing the franchise to lean harder into what she calls its "super woke" identity. Among the critics is White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who has accused the franchise of abandoning its core audience.
Gina Yashere, who plays Lura Thok in the new Paramount+ series "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy," responded online after sharing a clip from comedian Bill Maher’s show that touched on the controversy.
"All of the hatred coming at us is from fragile, angry White men, talking about either our non-whiteness or our bodies," Yashere wrote Sunday in an Instagram post.
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The Jetsons always gave me hope for the future
I won’t watch it, though I might watch the videos of people watching it.
I watched a movie that looked interesting last night called “The Last Legion” because it had Colin Firth in it as a Roman Officer.
It then introduced a female Persian or Islamic super warrior woman who was beautiful and built like a sex goddess and could defeat ten massive and muscular bloodthirsty guys easily, and then could display caring and sensitivity for the young boy who was Caesar and mother him.
I can’t stand it.
This idiotic fantasy trope is created and pushed in nearly every single movie that hits the screen for the last 30 years.
I thought SNW started strong but then too many episodes turned into sitcom plots (a musical, Spock turning human, etc.)
Star Trek has been irrelevant for years and Hollywood even longer.
Same here, that musical episode of SNW, ridiculous. Haven’t watched the final season of SNW, might. The best shows on streams for me have been on Apple TV : For All Mankind, Silo, Foundation(not an Asimov purist), Masters of the Air, Severence.
I also like some of Taylor Sheridans stuff : Yellowstone and Landman, however I found Lioness a miss, too much nonsensical & unbelievable stuff in that one.
Oh and Fallout is pretty good as well, especially if you have played the games.
Abishola’s mother in Bob Hearts Abishola plays a green scaly officer.
She does a great job, her accent works perfectly.
I watched the free episode 1 on Prime. I thought it was fine.
Yes, there is a complete lack of white males in the group that will be followed thru their years in Star Fleet Academy.
One weird thing was a black/white person like Frank Gorshin played. There shouldn’t be any of them left.
They think “woke” is a good thing. Adam and Eve thought so too when they ate from the forbidden tree. The serpent said, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened….” In other words, they would be “woke”. Turns out that was a very bad choice and had very devastating consequences!
Says an angry black lesbian.
“These people still have not learned that their audience is not other Wokeratti in Hollywood.”
That’s because they haven’t felt enough pain from all of the money being lost on wokeness. Looks like they’ll have to lose billions more before they figure it out.
Landman should give them the template to follow, but apparently most still follow the “go woke, go broke “ version of entertainment industry, and they plan to die on that hill while baking everyone else
Yep.
Agreed.
Because of the expense of making the show, Kurtzman got Paramount to commit to two seasons of ten episodes each. Since most TV shows, until recently, consisted of 20 to 24 episodes a season, this was the equivalent of one “real” season.
They just finished filming season “two” and the show has been viewable (barely) by the public for three weeks.
Just how did the public reaction change what was almost entirely in the can?
Jerri Ryan gave us Obama.
The "entertainment" is just a cover for the real business of pornography, sex trafficking, and money laundering.
It’s propaganda and not entertainment.
You commented on the entertainment industry losing interest in entertaining people and being profitable.
That of course depends on which part of the entertainment industry we’re talking about.
In the film industry, the indie movie people talk about this constantly, often in near despair about the difficulty of getting financing for original stories (as opposed to endless prequels, sequels and spinoffs of stale IP) that are willing to swing big and take risks.
Gore Verbinski is probably best known for the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. (He should have quit after two, but he left after #3, as Disney drove a now stale IP into a cash grab death spiral.) Verbinski has always been creative and unpredictable. He’s had some misses but also some very well regarded hits. He takes chances. The first Pirates movie was a work of sheer genius on the level of the first Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies.
He’s now back with his first indie film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. It’s been in three festivals and got a round of “mystery screenings” this past Monday. I saw it at an AMC Screen Unseen feature; Regal also has mystery movie screenings and I imagine other theaters do as well. The idea is for everyone to walk in cold, knowing nothing beyond the R, PG-13 type rating. I.e., come take a chance and maybe discover something you would never see otherwise because we all tend to get trapped in our own silos and automatically filter a lot of good stuff out.
GLHFDD is getting a wide release on Feb. 13 with early access screenings on Feb 10. I thought it was very good, wildly original, a darkly comic satire that swings at some targets that will have most freepers cheering — if freepers will take the time to see it, which the “Hollywood hasn’t made a good movie since XXXX” cynics won’t. The Film Threat guys loved it; Alan Ng (openly Republican and Christian, btw) has already picked it as the best movie of the year. I haven’t seen Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic, and the rest of that set comment yet.
I thought some things could have been tightened up, but it is very good; I’ll give it an A-.
(It does use language that will offend a few of us — our FRiends who object to Gone With the Wind because if THAT word, and you know who you are.
Go see it. In a theater if you can, because EVERY major studio and streamer passed on it. The movie went full indie and got made on a wing and a prayer on a surprisingly low budget. If you see it in a theater, the big studios and streamers won’t get a nickel of your money.
Anyhow, Verbinski has been hammering away in interviews about the Hollywood and big studio death spiral. In one recent interview, he likened the situation to the comet hitting earth and triggering changes that wiped out the dinosaurs. But that didn’t wipe out life on earth. There were these little furry creatures that survived, adapted, and then thrived. Verbinski called these the rats, and said the indie movie people have to figure out how to be the rats.
Onscreen entertainment is not going away. The rising generation is consuming more “content” than ever, with many addicted to their devices. Verbinski doesn’t hesitate to call this a mental health crisis and ... well, watch GLHFDD.
This kind of talk is commonplace among the indie filmmakers. They’re all over the genre, stylistic and political spectrum, but they all agree the big studios and streamers are the problem.
A lot of freepers think they’re striking back against woke Hollywood by boycotting movies, or at least new movies. That’s naive. The tv networks and streamers own the broadcast rights to the major sports franchises. Sports are where they are primarily competing. Sports are a bigger market than movies. Sports drives streaming subscriptions. Want to strike a blow against Disney? Cancel ESPN. Refuse to watch NFL games and college football and basketball on streaming networks.
Go to games live, in person. Go to watch good movies in the theater or on PVOD. If you do subscribe to a streamer because its the only way to watch something you really want to see, cancel the subscription after viewing your show.
The people who now dominate the entertainment business are now in the subscription business, not the movie business, and for most of them, movies are incidental secondary markets. It shows.
See my #38.
Thw tv and movie businesses are now run by companies with other priorities. Big Tech is taking over.
She demonstrates a hatred of maleness and whiteness in defending a production built around hatred of maleness and whiteness
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