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Jun 12, 2024 at 7:48pmWeb
Show threadSeraphJun 12, 2024
So you're saying Star Trek needs its own version of Jar Jar?
Show threadPistcowJun 12, 2024
That would be lens flare
Show threadrovingnothing29Jun 12, 2024
files.catbox.moe/qajgyx.mp4
Show threadNightwatch AdminJun 12, 2024
Yeah that was both subtle and not quite so subtle. Lower Decks is multi layer genius.
Show threadEvil_ShrubberyJun 12, 2024
Yes, it features several decks of layers.
Show threadNightwatch AdminJun 12, 2024
Well done, well done
Show threadEvil_ShrubberyJun 12, 2024
Thanks!!
I’ll be here all week! (Like literally - I physically can’t leave myself, otherwise I would.)
Show threadGregorGizehJun 12, 2024
Jar Jar Abrams
Show threadn3m37hJun 13, 2024
This is Tuvix
Show threadI_Has_A_HatJun 13, 2024
But we already have Neelix.
Show threadBappityJun 12, 2024
anyone that tries to say star trek has “gone woke” or some stupid shit like that clearly isn’t a fan of it and just trying to rile up stuff. I mean come on… how can someone say that and have watched the shows LOL
Show threadpleasejustdieJun 12, 2024
Yeah, its not like Star Trek suddenly went woke, its been woke. First ever TV kiss between mixed races was between Kirk and Uhura. Scandalous.
Show threadrufusJun 12, 2024
And they’re not even that woke. Afaik they still ocasionally eat animals in the 24th century. (Unless they’re Vulcan.) Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit 😆
Show threadBarrelAgedBoredomJun 12, 2024
They have food replicators. The only thing not vegan about replicated meat is that they’d probably use your poop as bulk material to synthesize stuff
Show threadladJun 12, 2024
Mmmm, poop meat 🤤
Show threadrufusJun 12, 2024
Yeah they have. But don’t they go on to tell in several episodes of all of the shows, how someones mom makes/made the best X/Y out of real ingredients and how much better that tastes than replicated food? And they eat on some planets with other people or on vacation… ?! Or someone worked in a restaurant?
Show threadafraid_of_zombiesJun 13, 2024
Keiko really came off as not a nice person in that scene.
Show threadtigeruppercutJun 12, 2024
Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley
Show threadtootoughtorememberJun 12, 2024

Could just replicate the eggs, or even a raw steak to grill, would still be poop meat.

Neelix on the other hand…

Show threadameancowJun 12, 2024

poop meat.

Knowing how chemicals and carbon compounds are recycled in Earth’s ecosystem and taking into account factory farming, I would wager the line between poop to serving of hot steak is much a much less connected line on a ship that turns matter into its constituent energy patterns.

Meanwhile on Earth we routinely have meat recalls because of e-coli contamination. Which is poop. Everyone is eating animal poop to some degree, it just becomes a problem when enough of it is in one spot to become contamination.

Show threadtootoughtorememberJun 12, 2024

The replicators are also used to “recycle”, converting matter into energy, to be used for future replication.

I doubt they were hauling poop through space rather than converting it to poop energy for their next earl grey.

Show threadameancowJun 12, 2024

This is the whole premise behind Star Trek, and one form a post-scarcity civilization could take.

As a tangent, Star Trek’s technology is both magical and primitive, in that they can harness and focus energy levels that match stars routinely, they can literally form matter from raw energy and influence the fabric of time and space itself, but despite this have almost no difference in how they are born, grow up and die.

I get the show is trying to make a relatable universe, but if we reach that level, we will also have reached so many other advancements in every other facet of existing as a human that our species itself would be utterly unrecognizable and we probably wouldn’t be worried about how real our steaks taste.

Show threadtootoughtorememberJun 13, 2024
If we’re sticking with the lore, the only limitation should be what they have stored in the replicator database. No reason your poop steak couldn’t taste like an A5 wagyu or a $2 steak, depending on your personal preference.
Show threadlightnsfwJun 12, 2024
I don’t think the Star Trek replicator use raw materials to produce stuff. I’m pretty sure it’s just energy converted into matter.
Show threadBarrelAgedBoredomJun 12, 2024
True! Forgot about that. I think voyager had a few episodes with hunted game of some sort. The Klingons in general too. Guess actually trek isn’t super big on veganism haha
Show threadMorgoonJun 13, 2024
youtu.be/5nPIQiX-ukg?si=UNlRENogkmFlsqyF
Star Trek TNG -- Meat Consuming Veganism

YouTube
Show threadlightnsfwJun 12, 2024
I don’t think the Star Trek replicator use raw materials to produce stuff. I’m pretty sure it’s just energy converted into matter.
Show threadCileTheSaneJun 12, 2024

Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit 😆

You mean like “agree to date me or else I’ll date the younger clone of you?”

Show threadOptionalJun 12, 2024
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Show threadusernamefactoryJun 12, 2024
No, no, more like “I’m going to fly a shuttle outside your quarters so I can spy on you during your date”
Show threadTaleyaJun 12, 2024

You didn’t actually watch that ep, didja? Several tells there lol

(Honestly if you wanted fucking problematic Gordon was right there)

Show threadCarbonatedPastaSauceJun 12, 2024

That’s actually a common misconception. Not to downplay the significance of what Shatner and Nichols pulled off to get around the various censors (ruining alternate takes and such), but many TV shows did it before Star Trek.

en.wikipedia.org/…/First_interracial_kiss_on_tele…

First interracial kiss on television - Wikipedia

Show threadVindictiveJudgeJun 13, 2024
I think it was the first one that was both broadcast nationally in a primetime slot and where the actors were easily identifiable as having different ethnicities on a tiny TV screen. Would explain the misconception.
Show threadCarbonatedPastaSauceJun 13, 2024
I think it certainly was the most noticeable of anything shown on American TV at that point. But the British had us beat by years.
Show threadstiephelandoJun 13, 2024
Shatner is on that list multiple times. That man had an agenda.
Show threadKushanJun 13, 2024
He likes his coffee how he likes his women.
Show threadstiephelandoJun 13, 2024
Mostly Asian?
Show threadshortypantsJun 13, 2024
To go?
Show threadpleasejustdieJun 13, 2024
easily within reach?
Show threadthe_crotchJun 14, 2024
Ground up in a bag in the freezer?
Show threadpleasejustdieJun 13, 2024
I stand corrected! Thanks for the info, I’ve believed that since 7th grade when I first learned of it from one of my teachers who was a massive Trekkie.
Show threadlolrightythenJun 13, 2024

Late 30s here- it blows my mind that we don’t have to look very far into that past for the Shatner/Nichols smooch to be remarkable.

It’s uplifting to me. This present world can be ugly, but it’s comforting to think that the kiss is almost mundane when compared to the present.

A win is a win!

Show threadRampantParanoia2365Jun 14, 2024
It’s literally like 80% of the show’s concept. The idea was to hide morality plays behind wacky alien makeup.
Show threadFlying SquidJun 12, 2024
Show threadPlainSimpleGarakJun 12, 2024
Duet and Drumhead hit so hard. Incredible writing, phenomenal acting. I miss that in Star Trek.
Show threadCrashumbcJun 13, 2024
Not to mention the first black woman officer and the first black/white kiss.
Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024

the first black/white kiss.

…in a drama series. This was the first:

That’s Lynn Fontanne kissing Sammy Davis, Jr. at the 1965 Emmys.

As far as the first interracial kiss, that does have a star trek connection- Desi kissing Lu in 1951.

On top of that, Shatner himsellf kissed France Nuyen on the Ed Sullivan show in 1958.

fakehistoryhunter.net/…/not-the-first-interracial…

NOT the first interracial kiss on TV

It is often said that the first interracial kiss on TV was the (involuntary) kiss between Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) and translator and communications officer Nyota Uhura (Nichel…

Fake History Hunter
Show threadCrashumbcJun 13, 2024
Specifically why I said black/white. and peck on the cheek isn’t consider a “kiss” by most people. (although it probably caused a stir). This was also right in the middle of the black civil rights movement which made it that much more risky.
Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024

Okay then, you’ll have to go with Sammy again and Nancy Sinatra:

That would have been in 1967. Plato’s Stepchildren was a year later.

On top of that, you have to further specify that this is only on American TV, because Gordon Heath kissed Rosemary Harris in a production of Othello on the BBC in 1955.

Show threadCrashumbcJun 13, 2024
Sorry you only get one shot at being pedantic, after that it just gets sad. (Even if you may be technically right)
Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024

Do you think insulting a mod will go well for you? And congratulations for proving the above meme incorrect about Star Trek being the nicest fan base.

Showing you that a passionate kiss between a white woman and a black woman happened on British television over a decade before Star Trek is not being pedantic. You were just wrong.

Show threadCrashumbcJun 13, 2024

I didn’t know you were a “MOD” omg !!! And no it wouldn’t change my completely accurate comment. You were being pedantic and came back for another try after your first one missed.

And now you think threatening me with your “modhood” is a good thing? or how a mod should behave in any way? Seriously how petty can you get? That’s just outright childish.

Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024
Rule 2 applies to everyone regardless of circumstance. You’ve violated it twice now. Time for a break.
Show threadGodricJun 13, 2024

Holy shit a MOD??? They insulted a MOD???

I’m so sorry milord, I can’t believe they had the audacity to insult your modliness in such an insolent manner!

May they feel the mighty unchecked wrath of someone who has ban power on a small online community and know the error of their ways

Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024

I will give you the same warning I gave them. Civility rules apply to everyone. Please do not violate them again.

Also, why do people insist on showing that the Star Trek community is not, in fact, nice?

Show threadGodricJun 13, 2024

Forgive me, I know not how to genuflect before your modliness in a more civil manner.

Mystery indeed how a show as strong as Star Trek with such well-rounded role models would attract those who aren’t. I suppose not everyone can act like a captain, Chief Petty Officers have to come from somewhere

Show threadFlying SquidJun 13, 2024
Okay, you were warned.
Show threadNorah (pup/it/she)Jun 13, 2024

And of course it shall always be the first kiss between a black woman and a white man in space on tv.

I cracked up a bit at this. That was a great write up, I didn’t know before about Desilu’s involvement in making that kiss happen and their earlier milestone, that’s quite cool.

Show threadCptEnderJun 17, 2024
Holy shit my boy Shatner they’re both so beautiful 😍
Show threadTattorackJun 14, 2024

Right now it’s the modern entitled version of woke. Not the philosophical exploratory woke.

Modern Trek tells you off for thinking differently while old Trek set an example to aspire to.

And that’s only in the few limited moments NuTrek a actually bothers spending time on making an opinion, as most of it is cheaply written shlock to squeeze as much as possible out of a underpaid VFX artists.