Star Trek. Stacey Abrams and the M-2-M love stories, and the trans characters with confusing ungrammatical pronouns resembling Dissociative Identity Disorder or MPD. Hearing voices used to be called schizophrenia.
To be fair, though, Star Trek was ALWAYS a progressive show. Even the oldest episodes were still about an Earth that has largely gotten over its own conflicts and intolerances by coming together in a one-world utopian government, and their military is primarily focused on exploring, outreach, and other community services rather than fighting wars.
It pushed (and showed as best as it could for the time) absolute racial and gender equality. In fact, Roddenberry was planning on adding gay characters all the way back in the 90's before his death. I even recall an entire episode focusing on aliens who had no concept of gender and discussed an analog of conversion therapy.
I honestly didn't expect anything less from the new Star Trek. It's been pushing the envelope on the progressive front for decades. It might dress those issues up in alien make-up, but... that's kind of how science fiction works.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that science fiction is typically liberal-leaning. I meant more that science fiction works by taking familiar stuff and dressing it up with lasers and tentacles.
There is plenty of conservative-leaning science fiction out there. Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) is famously conservative. Brave New World is also a crazily conservative piece of fiction by Huxley. There's quite a few sci-fi classics out there from more right-leaning creatives.
As soon as I saw it announced that the lead character is female but has an obviously male name I knew it was not going to be worth my time. It wasn't even a tomboy thing like Samantha going by Sam (like Stargate: SG1), it was Michael instead of Michelle. STD is a very apt acronym for Discovery.
yea its not star trek, I know all of the trek was kinda hand holding we are all humans, but it was kinda low key and I took it as the others had to evolve quick because of external threats from space or some shit like that. It really didnt bother me in OS, TNG, Voyager etc
But the new ones are all white man bad, and dumb. I just cant watch that shit. In star trek diversity, the main character is a black dyke who calls herself michael.....what the actual fuck.
Star Trek. Stacey Abrams and the M-2-M love stories, and the trans characters with confusing ungrammatical pronouns resembling Dissociative Identity Disorder or MPD. Hearing voices used to be called schizophrenia.
You're gonna love this. She plays the "President of the United Earth".
Dear lord, I regret watching that. What a bunch of trash all around.
she be a kang.
King-sized.
To be fair, though, Star Trek was ALWAYS a progressive show. Even the oldest episodes were still about an Earth that has largely gotten over its own conflicts and intolerances by coming together in a one-world utopian government, and their military is primarily focused on exploring, outreach, and other community services rather than fighting wars.
It pushed (and showed as best as it could for the time) absolute racial and gender equality. In fact, Roddenberry was planning on adding gay characters all the way back in the 90's before his death. I even recall an entire episode focusing on aliens who had no concept of gender and discussed an analog of conversion therapy.
I honestly didn't expect anything less from the new Star Trek. It's been pushing the envelope on the progressive front for decades. It might dress those issues up in alien make-up, but... that's kind of how science fiction works.
Remember the weirdness of TNG season 1 when they still had the minidress uniform and you occasionally saw a dude in the background wearing it?
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that science fiction is typically liberal-leaning. I meant more that science fiction works by taking familiar stuff and dressing it up with lasers and tentacles.
There is plenty of conservative-leaning science fiction out there. Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) is famously conservative. Brave New World is also a crazily conservative piece of fiction by Huxley. There's quite a few sci-fi classics out there from more right-leaning creatives.
Man, I loved Ender's Game. I did not see that coming
As soon as I saw it announced that the lead character is female but has an obviously male name I knew it was not going to be worth my time. It wasn't even a tomboy thing like Samantha going by Sam (like Stargate: SG1), it was Michael instead of Michelle. STD is a very apt acronym for Discovery.
I watched the first episode, well most of it anyway. I then deleted it and the other two or three episodes and never watched it again.
yea its not star trek, I know all of the trek was kinda hand holding we are all humans, but it was kinda low key and I took it as the others had to evolve quick because of external threats from space or some shit like that. It really didnt bother me in OS, TNG, Voyager etc
But the new ones are all white man bad, and dumb. I just cant watch that shit. In star trek diversity, the main character is a black dyke who calls herself michael.....what the actual fuck.
Even the new Picard is woke AF. They go back in time to 21st century, and of course choose racism as a main premise.