• zephorah@lemm.ee
    65·
    3 months ago

    I recently had a conversation with a relative telling me they could not watch one of the recent Star Treks because they heard it was “woke”.

    It’s Star Trek. It is ALWAYS woke. Star Trek (1966) was woke fifty years before “woke” was defined as a thing.

    You can’t have Star Trek without “woke” because that’s what Star Trek is.

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
      26·
      3 months ago

      Star Wars fan here. Star Trek has always been an incredible example in pop culture of progressive values. They’ve supported love in all its forms, diversity, inclusion, and other “woke” values. They’ve created a world where everyone looks out for each other, protects each other, and includes each other. Star Trek is the future I want to live in. So, to all Star Trek fans, I give you a very enthusiastic “live long and prosper”.

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
        10·
        3 months ago

        So, to all Star Trek fans, I give you a very enthusiastic “live long and prosper”.

        It’s not too late to join us.

        “Peace, and long life.”

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      191·
      3 months ago

      The thing is, you have to be at least slightly media literate to realise that. Old Trek just lived in a world that was comfortable in its wokeness. It never signposted it, it just did the woke thing. At times this was having the first interracial kiss on TV. At others, it was using an alien species where everyone except one member is non-binary as a metaphor (at the time, it was intended as a metaphor for oppression of gay people, but today it reads much more strongly as a trans metaphor). In today’s Trek, you have characters directly coming out of the closet as trans; it’s much more direct and hard to miss. I saw one person half-jokingly suggest that they started deliberately doing this stuff specifically to drum up controversy to get people talking about their shows.

      And let’s be honest, the kind of people who would complain about wokeness as though it’s a bad thing are not exactly the most media literate. These are the people who saw Fight Club and thought the protagonists were heroes, or who idolised Rick in Rick & Morty.

    • HRDS_654@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Also, woke isn’t a negative term. The right made it a negative term by applying it to anything they disagree with.

    • Draghetta@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      I mean TOS had black people who could work on the bridge and be engineers, not to mention a whole episode on how black/white people are the same as white/black people, what kind of shameless woke debauchery is this smh

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
        9·
        3 months ago

        It doesn’t get more blatant than a society divided by whether or not the left half of their faces are black or white. And having their conflict resolved by the end.

        And so many actors from the original Roots, including both Lavar Burton and The Sisko, were in Star Trek.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    61·
    3 months ago

    He won’t and he can’t. Elon Musk is like Trump on that he lies, a LOT, mostly all the time about just about everything that he claims that he does, did, and will do.

    It’s the same posturing as having a mars base by, what was it, 2020? 2022?

    He still hasn’t been able to leave orbit, SpaceX still hasn’t been able to replicate what NASA did back in the 60’s, yet here we are acting like they’re performing miracles.

    I’m sure that there are smart engineers at SpaceX that want and try better but SpaceX, as it stands, rujs onntax payer money and boy have they wasted a LOT of it to get just done what is considered basic rocket technology. SpaceX will not put a (wo)man on mars within the next decade, or more likely two or three, if ever.

    Elon all the time comes with some ridiculous idea and then people jump on it as if it’s amaaaaazing even though highschoolers should be able to identify that his ideas are fundamentally stupid or plain impossible, yet people keep acting as if he’s a genius. HE WAS FIRED FOR INCOMPETENCE BEFORE dammit. That should have been a red flag.

    Stop listening to this scammer, and just wait for him to kill twitter, he’s been working hard on piledriving it off a cliff.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      This is off topic but

      (wo)man

      Human is two less characters, and on the phone, way easier to type. Why choose to write it like that?