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[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

They didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago

The message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other

That's a simple enough message to even get it from Warhammer 40k - Gender? Skin colour? Disabilities? Doesn't matter, pick up a Lasrifle and start shooting xenos

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

It helps when every other planet is a severely flawed monocolutre.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I think that’s the real message of Star Trek in general!

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And TOS/ENT in particular

ENT gets bonus points for shran calling humans "pink skins" when Travis is right fucking there on the bridge

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago

There will never come a time in which we have everything figured out.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Yes but that doesn’t mean we should never look back and see how far we’ve come, just as we look forward and see how far we have to go.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

excuse me, i have a degree in bullshit. We have figured out everything. 1+1=2. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

And new people who haven't figured out yet are born all the time!

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And there will be things that are being created today that's considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

McCoy called Spock "green-blooded" on multiple occasions - and once a "hobgoblin". And I would call the Vulcan penchant for logic a cultural trait, not neurodiversity.

[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

You should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

The one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

McCoy was racist as shit and would not only have been cashiered, he probably would have been charged for hate speech

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