How the fuck can Elon Musk claim to be a Trekkie? When he is against everything Star Trek stands for?!
The psychological dissonance of that man is insane!
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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He also claims to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book series where technology corporations are absolutely loathed and every AI is either a broken or an asshole or both.
I think the closest thing Elon is to Star Trek would be a Romulan/Ferengi hybrid wannabe. Dreaming of having a star ship to manipulate, conquer and extort the galaxy.
What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.
TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.
It's a common theme. There are a lot of conservatives who are still somehow fans of Star Trek because they the lack media literacy needed to figure out that they're values are not shared by the good guys on the show.
Remember how conservatives think that Rage Against The Machine is on their side. There's no delusion too great after that.
fucking poser. every piece of media you claim to love is a protest to your entire existence.
I definitely read this with the Doctor's cadence and finished off with the shit-eating grin he makes when he's said something snarky.
Second step: abolish capitalism, and by extension billionaires, and give everyone free healthcare and education.
(Who downvotes this?)
Delusional temporarily embarrassed millionaires and billionaires.
Don't mind their working class appearances at the moment, they'll get a lucky break and be set back to their high status.
Robert Picardo is great
Musk wants the Terran Empire, not the Federation
People fail to realize that we're in the mirror universe and the universe Star Trek exists in is the unattainable utopia.
Yeah nothing says "I support a post-scarcity economy" like a bunch of billionaires
Please state the nature of the emotional emergency
Finally, a self-driving car with actual intelligence.
For those that don’t know, the Johnny-Cab self driving taxis from this movie are voiced by Robert Picardo
What?! Awesome!
And since I had to double check if I remembered right, the film is Total Recall
Edit: Looking closer, I can see the family resemblance between JohnnyCab and EMH.
That's my The Doctor. Sorry, Dr. Who fans.
What's this from?
Stargate: Atlantis!
Robert Picardo played Richard Woolsey, a member of the Stargate Program's international oversight committee. In the fifth and final season, he was made head of the Atlantis Expedition in the Pegasus Galaxy. Here, he is standing next to Dr. Jennifer Keller played by Jewel Staite.
If you want to get into that life, be prepared to watch a major motion picture, a made-for-TV movie turned pilot, 351 44-minute-long episodes over 17 seasons of three television series, two more made-for-TV movies, and a 10-webisode origin series, not to mention literature set in that universe. The visual media took me six months to binge watch the first time I did it.
Why is Barty Crouch Jr. side-eyeing Lewis Zimmerman?
Why is Crowley side-eyeing Richard Woolsey?
Starfleet was diverse? It was like 75% white people
Most of Starfleet isn't even human
Ok, of the humans, 75% are white.
And I don't know which show you watched, but most of Starfleet were humans
My head canon is that TNG, DS9 and Voyager are set in the Kelvin universe, where
Star Trek 2009 spoiler
Most of the Vulcans are dead.
I have no (in universe) explanation for the lack of proportional human diversity, in TNG, in particular, though. I notice sometimes during a rewatch and it does break the immersion.
Yeah, in 1990, America was still 80% white. It's only in the past 30 years we dropped to 61%.