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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
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television
Shatner is on that list multiple times. That man had an agenda.
He likes his coffee how he likes his women.
To go?
easily within reach?
Ground up in a bag in the freezer?
Mostly Asian?
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.
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.
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.
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!
It's literally like 80% of the show's concept. The idea was to hide morality plays behind wacky alien makeup.
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 π
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
Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley
Could just replicate the eggs, or even a raw steak to grill, would still be poop meat.
Neelix on the other hand...
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. As well as what we use to fertilize our root vegetables. Everyone is eating poop to some degree, it just becomes a problem when enough of it is in one spot to become contamination.
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.
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 and even break causality if they really try, 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.
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.
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
https://youtu.be/5nPIQiX-ukg?si=UNlRENogkmFlsqyF
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?
Keiko really came off as not a nice person in that scene.
I donβt think the Star Trek replicator use raw materials to produce stuff. Iβm pretty sure itβs just energy converted into matter.
Mmmm, poop meat π€€
You mean like "agree to date me or else I'll date the younger clone of you?"
No, no, more like "I'm going to fly a shuttle outside your quarters so I can spy on you during your date"
You werenβt supposed to see that.
You didn't actually watch that ep, didja? Several tells there lol
(Honestly if you wanted fucking problematic Gordon was right there)
I mean compared to TOS it's gotten woke, but TOS was like extremely woke for the 60s
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 underpaid VFX artists.
Releasing Let That Be Your Last Battlefield at the height of the civil rights movement wasnβt some hypothetical philosophizing. That was pointed condemnation. Same with The Outcastβs attack on conversion therapy, or In The Hands of the Prophets' take on religious dogmatism.
Star Trek has always been happy to condemn bad ideas. If you think it's just started telling people off now then you haven't been paying attention.
It was 100% philosophy, and leading by example, exactly as I said. It spent the entire episode showing the hypocrisy of the two characters and showed the crew of The Enterprise to be better than their millenia old squabble.
It wasn't 30 seconds of emotional finger pointing in between cheap action sci-fi.
I've been paying perfect attention to Star Trek. But it seems like loads of people have simply forgotten how Star Trek got their point across.
What do you think woke means?