• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    When your ego is so huge that it doesn’t even occur to you that the person you’re lying about will almost certainly see and publicly expose your lie.

    Queerphobic, misogynistic asshole. I’m glad she called him out.

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      Idk much about him, but I keep reading here and there that he was terrible. How did he manage to write Star Trek episodes if he was those things?

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        Berman wasn’t the one writing or directing, he was the executive producer. which means he also wasn’t producing, he was the one who signed off on other people’s work. Read: he vetoed a lot of good ideas out of fear it would anger the studio. As progressive and intelligent as Star Trek was, he kept it from being so much better.

        The writers and the lower producers did what they could. Sometimes sneaking around behind his back to make sure something was shown or said.

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          For example, Roddenberry wanted an LGBT character as far back as TOS, but it got vetoed by Berman. That would have been incredible for 1960.

          I think he also did it when Frakes wanted the non-binary alien he flirted with in one episode to have a male actor instead of a female one, but that also got vetoed.

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            This comment confused me because Berman didn’t work on Star Trek until The Next Generation. He couldn’t have vetoed anything on the Original Series.

            The main source of pushback during the 60s was the NBC executives (despite Lucille Ball and her DesiLu production company championing the series). Star Trek was constantly threatened with cancellation, then moved to a graveyard time slot for season 3, then was finally cancelled due to “ratings.”

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          The context was a Rick who worked with Lucas on the prequels. I dunno if he was a POS, but he was one of the guys who couldn’t tell George that his ideas were bad.

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          Rick McCallum, producer for the prequels. It’s from Mr Plinkett red letter media for the prequels and TNG movies.

          Come to my web zone and I’ll send you some pizza rolls

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            Star Trek the Ss… the Star Trek was a feature film released in 2009.

            Now you might have expected me to say it’s the worst thing since my son, or something like that. But that’s not the case.

            See Star Trek is a quality made film. It’s what I call a guilty pleasure.

            Those episodes were a bit silly, but entertaining nonetheless

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        Sexist piece of shit who liked to step all over anyone he perceived as “beneath” him (everyone) and if you’ve ever thought to yourself “given the rest of the show, why would THAT be a thing? It feels gross and entire groups of people would feel marginalized by this” while watching it, it was probably a Berman Special. Like Seven’s… “uniform”…

        Also from what I understand, racist. Like the ferengi.

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    His story smells like self-aggrandizing bullshit. If he got close enough to any actress to remove something from her costume, someone should have hit him with the cake. That’s not your job, so don’t touch the talent, asshole.

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      This was what I was thinking. If she put quotes around “thank” and used unceremoniously instead, the post would read closer to what it sounds like she intended.

      Edit: I only just noticed a couple of things: first, this post is five years old. Second, she responded with full-throated support of Rick. So despite the fact that he is pretty well understood as a POS around most Trek communities these days, Denise doesn’t seem to want to be lumped in with that.

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        Ceremoniously makes sense. You’re doing something you know is wrong so you play it up so no one will stop you, or they’ll be interrupting a grand gesture of sorts when they do so you can play the part of flustered surprise.

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          Textbook narcissism right there. Which tracks with the whole, posting a lie publicly to try and make himself look good.

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    Section 31’s ability to insist that they didn’t “plant” a commander into the Romulan empire even decades later is rather impressive.

    Even when there’s documented evidence proving otherwise.