Posted on 01/27/2024 11:01:54 AM PST by DallasBiff
Everything that’s happening in America today, Star Trek was there first. I mean the real Star Trek with Captain James T. Kirk, not the endless woke spinoffs and ripoffs still leeching off the original brilliant construct to oppose the very point of it. A planetary pandemic that kills adults while leaving children unafflicted? See Miri (episode 11). Deific technology that brutally cancels both free speech and speakers? See The Apple (episode 34). A mentally incompetent leader kept hidden from the public except for controlled glimpses so that radical extremists can rule through him? See Patterns of Force (episode 50). Racists who view skin color as the content of character and demand atonement for long ago crimes? See Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (episode 70). Women who seize command from abler men by physically imitating them? See Turnabout Intruder (episode 79). The Deep State trying to stop a visionary figure from ending an obsolete yet profitable war? See Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Captain Kirk met these challenges and many more, much as President Donald Trump is now doing. And if Trump can be compared to Kirk, and boldly go where no president has gone before, then Joe Biden is John Gill from Patterns of Force.
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Takei took time off to film “The Green Berets”. That’s when Chekov came in.
Yeah, he’s complained that they didn’t even change the dialog. Hey, at least they changed the character’s name.
Some sites put her as 3rd, some as 4th behind Sulu. The important part is that she was an FU to the network. They said “you can’t have a woman (white in this case) be 2nd” and he stuck an alien (which they also wanted to get rid of) in 2nd, a black woman in 3rd or 4th, and a Japanese guy in 3rd or 4th. He deliberately went more diverse for the 2nd pilot.
Scott was 3rd. She was probably 4th. Didn’t they call her Lt. Commander? Or was that in the movies?
“Check out The Menagerie> Two Parter when Barrett is Second in Command. Hap tip to ‘Stu.
Well ok, I didn't see Uhara, Sulu, or Checkoff complain about, White priviage or Spock complaining about Earth male privlage..
No, Scott was technically not even bridge crew. As head of engineering if things are going poorly Scott’s not going to be on the bridge. Thus not high in the command structure. Kind of like McCoy, regardless of his rank McCoy will never sit the chair because if thing are that bad he’s got better things to do.
Right. It’s all been moved past. That’s his point. A very diverse cast, and they’re all just people. WOKE. or at least what woke is supposed to be.
There were episodes where he was put in command!
In Bread and Circuses, Scotty was in command and on the bridge.
What is so wrong with people doing their tasks compentenly?
Are you Claudine Gay?
You guys are really obsessing on besides the $%^^&^* point here3rd, 4th, 5th DOESN’T MATTER. Black woman, 1967, high in the command structure. MATTERS. Move on. I am.
Dude. You’re really desperately trying to make a flame war for no reason.
The facts are in. Trek was woke from day 1. On purpose. Anybody that doesn’t recognize that is stupid.
I was just stating Scotty took command on the bridge. Geez.
Dude all I did was post that John Gill, is the modern Joe Biden and you went all ape sh!t.
I think you’re starting the flame war! I don’t see the ST:TOS bridge cast as representing “Woke”. Not as they define “Woke” now. It was just people doing their job competently and strongly implied they got there by merit. If anything it represented how things should be.
Actually nobody should be using ANY of that BS. If you can’t actually go after their POSITIONS without lazy name calling you got nothing.
I didn’t go ape@$#% I pointed out that “they’re nazis” is lazy, childish and pathetic. Cause it is.
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