I remember when I was a kid watching and Pecard was talking about humanity moving on to a moneyless society, the fact the Star Trek was space communism was the most obvious thing in the world. Love breaking that out on boomers.
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Joss Whedon has seen the future, and the ’verse has a lot of Mandarin cussin'.
No Asians though weirdly enough
You're gorram right
Increasingly common these days, many people are saying the same. The specter is haunting!
to boldly go where no capitalist has gone before
Do you have a link to that claim? The last time I saw a similar claim it said she said it on a radio program or something. So is there any documentation I can bookmark or is it just hearsay? Because while early ST (ToS, TNG especially) definitely had some vibes, I kind of been under the assumption lately that Roddenberry was an idealist who wasn't any more communist than some turn of last century bourgeoisie who imagined mass communal projects and a peaceful futurist transition to a kind of very regimented social democracy.
I don't have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.
After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.
Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more:
why am i unable to look past the bad spelling of majel barrett? lol
It is kinda a weird name. Lwaxana is one of the best characters tho, I love her episodes.
That one where she falls in love with the guy whose culture it is to kill their retirees, that one is really sad.
you start to like it more when you inspect it closer. it's like an endearing ironic juxtaposition compared to those REALLY convincing deepfakes floating around out there.
the yanis varoufakis deepfake on youtube blows my mind every day.
Janeway is a perpetrator of imperialist genocide and furthermore needlessly executed a beloved crewmember (Tuvix). I won't abide her inclusion next to the esteemed Sisko and Picard, who are both champions of diplomacy and space stuff.
needlessly executed a beloved crewmember (Tuvix)
Nah, Tuvix had to go! (Just kidding)
She also allied with the MaKKKuis