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minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·2 days agoThey didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 day agoThe message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 day agoIt helps when every other planet is a severely flawed monocolutre.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day agoI think that’s the real message of Star Trek in general!
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-21 day agoAnd TOS/ENT in particular ENT gets bonus points for shran calling humans “pink skins” when Travis is right fucking there on the bridge
minus-squareblockheadjt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up33·2 days agoThere will never come a time in which we have everything figured out.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoexcuse me, i have a degree in bullshit. We have figured out everything. 1+1=2. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days agoYes but that doesn’t mean we should never look back and see how far we’ve come, just as we look forward and see how far we have to go.
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoAnd new people who haven’t figured out yet are born all the time!
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-21 day agoAnd there will be things that are being created today that’s considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.
minus-squareAa!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days agoYou should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong
minus-squareusernamefactory@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoThe one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoMcCoy was racist as shit and would not only have been cashiered, he probably would have been charged for hate speech
They didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.
The message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other
It helps when every other planet is a severely flawed monocolutre.
I think that’s the real message of Star Trek in general!
And TOS/ENT in particular
ENT gets bonus points for shran calling humans “pink skins” when Travis is right fucking there on the bridge
There will never come a time in which we have everything figured out.
excuse me, i have a degree in bullshit. We have figured out everything. 1+1=2. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes but that doesn’t mean we should never look back and see how far we’ve come, just as we look forward and see how far we have to go.
And new people who haven’t figured out yet are born all the time!
And there will be things that are being created today that’s considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.
You should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong
The one I always feel like I need to warn people about is the treatment of Rand in The Enemy Within. Particularly since that happens so early in the series.
McCoy was racist as shit and would not only have been cashiered, he probably would have been charged for hate speech