Timothy Sandefur tracks the wildly changing politics of Star Trek:
At no point in the show’s history had Kirk or his colleagues treated the Klingons unjustly, whereas audiences for decades have watched the Klingons torment and subjugate the galaxy’s peaceful races. In “Errand of Mercy,” they attempt genocide to enslave the Organians. In “The Trouble with Tribbles,” they try to poison a planet’s entire food supply… Yet never does the Klingon leader, Gorkon, or any of his people, acknowledge — let alone apologise for — such injustices. Quite the contrary; his daughter tells a galactic conference, “We are a proud race. We are here because we intend to go on being proud.” Within the context of the original Star Trek, such pride is morally insane. Yet in service to Spock’s mission of elevating peace over right, the film [Undiscovered Country] portrays the Klingons not as thugs, but as misunderstood casualties of human bigotry. Kirk and his crew, says Gorkon’s daughter at the Enterprise banquet, represent a “homo sapiens-only club,” devoted to such chauvinistic values as “inalienable human rights.” “Why, the very name,” she quips, “is racist.”
Whatever.
SF has been taken over by social justice warriors and liberal turd brains. Today it isn’t fit entertainment for anyone with a triple digit IQ. Most of it today is degenerate and depraved fiction written by sexually and mentally disturbed flinks for other sexually and mentally disturbed flinks.
What is truly sad is that the genre was literally stolen from people that DO think – and handed over to reprobates that don’t.
I dunnow, the last ST movie I saw had Kirk and the crew mowing down Klingon scum like foamy mouthed ISL baby crushers. Could be wrong but the screen play made it pretty clear the Klingons were low brow violent aholes who only respect a well placed phaser shot.
And somewhere out there is there still another Doomday Machine smash planets whole?
In all the SF movies there always appear to be interplanetary senators
Star Trek doesn’t ever say if the planets elect them
We do know that on Star Trek they have conquered climate change because they time their rainstorms,except when whales interfere
They also have no money. Don’t need it
And who needs GMO foods when you can build them on a molecular level
The government still controls liquor such as saurian brandy, which doesn’t come out of a machine
Unprotected sex is okay for Kirk
There are no obvious gays, transgender can also be trans species , next step on earth
“”Why, the very name,” she quips, “is racist.””
Always hated that line, but for a different reason. Should have been…
“Why, the very name,” she quips, “is specist.”
Usually enjoy the franchise but believe it is as accurate a predictor of mankind’s future as computer models are of the climate’s future. In other words….. not!
time to plug my favorite publishing hour, Baen Books. I haven’t read anything by a SJW published by them. I stay away from Penguin, and only read authors on TOR that I have previous experience with.
I’ve always preferred the Babylon 5 future to the Star Trek TNG future – I got chills in the ST TNG episode when they described how there’s no more poverty on earth and crime is way down (they didn’t use the terms “eugenics” or “re-education camps”, but that’s what came to mind in their throwaway lines about “we don’t have those problems anymore because we used science to get rid of them”).
It was not the crappy episodes that caused me to reject TNG and
all that followed, it was the socially preachy PC crap that came
with them. I could get used to them pulling forces, dimensions,
and waves out their rectal orifices, but the “Peace at any cost”
nonsense would have caused James T. Kirk to pull his hair out.
About a half dozen episodes in, the Enterprise was surrounded by
a small armada of aliens with a proven history of hostile actions.
Captain Jean Luc Pussy ordered the shields to be lowered so “We
could show them we mean them no harm.” Goodbye Enterprise, you
were just blown to atoms!” This would have been the series
ending episode. Kirk would have kicked their asses!
All that preaching about tolerances for alien species and
condemning rape, etc., made me want to puke. I think I will
go down to the beach and ride a Techion Wave and read an
Arthur C. Clark book when I get home just to remind myself what
good Sci-Fi is like.
PS Ray Bradbury was dragged into the studio drooling from his
senile dementia when this turd was produced. He had nothing
to do with it!
So Kirk and the Enterprise never did anything bad to the Klingons eh…
At the end of “The Trouble with Tribbles” Scotty beamed the whole lot of Tribbles over to the Klingon ship just before it left orbit. I always felt bad for both the Tribbles and the Klingons. Ah well, Kirk thought it was better than beaming them into deep space.
In the original Star Trek the Klingons were a “rigged” race, just like the Ferengi were in the Nex Gen. They had big flaws. You weren’t supposed to like them. For someone to raise this as an example of racism? It’s just as racist as the Coyote in the Road Runner or Alymer Fudd.
I love the original series but you really have to give them a wide berth. People in the 60’s were stupid.
In one episode Bones is diagnosed with a rare disease and given one year to live. They beam down to a hallow ship on an asteroid where the leader falls in love with him. He decides to stay. Next thing he’s talking about searching the galaxy for a cure for people like him, then they find out the creators were medical miracle workers and they had a cure for Bones. Next thing Bones is beaming back up to the Enterprise like nothing happened.
And Kirk didn’t always kick arse. In the Yangs and the Cons episode Kirk is faced either with defeat or bringing down a handful of phasers for mass destruction. He beams back up to the Enterprise and they leave orbit without a fight.
And in “Piece of the Action” Kirk basically takes over the planet beaming people back and forth to the Enterprise and ruining the clutch of a 1930s sedan. Oh, my father tells me its time to come inside. Bye.
And what was with that salt-sucker. What a useless episode. And Captain Pike ended up a prisoner after all. Yes the girl was pretty foxy, but it was all an illusion. Yeah, I’m coming…
“[To] boldly go where no man has gone before.”
– original Star Trek series
“[To] boldly go where no one has gone before.”
– Star Trek: The Next Generation
Nothing goes out of date quite so fast as the future.
To boldly go where no he/she has gone before
Star Trek the transgenderation
The Future: To boldly go where nobody is bold anymore and then get a trophy for just participating.
“There are no obvious gays, transgender can also be trans species , next step on earth”
Would you believe that there have been recent scripts submitted to make Sulu gay?