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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

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  • @[email protected]
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    7820 days ago

    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.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        1620 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1520 days ago

          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.

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        619 days ago

        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!

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        620 days ago

        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.

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      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 😆

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        3220 days ago

        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

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          1520 days ago

          Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley

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            1420 days ago

            Could just replicate the eggs, or even a raw steak to grill, would still be poop meat.

            Neelix on the other hand…

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              poop meat.

              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.

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                420 days ago

                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.

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                  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.

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                    420 days ago

                    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.

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            620 days ago

            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

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          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?

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          720 days ago

          I don’t think the Star Trek replicator use raw materials to produce stuff. I’m pretty sure it’s just energy converted into matter.

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        1020 days ago

        Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit 😆

        You mean like “agree to date me or else I’ll date the younger clone of you?”

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          1020 days ago

          No, no, more like “I’m going to fly a shuttle outside your quarters so I can spy on you during your date”

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          120 days ago

          You didn’t actually watch that ep, didja? Several tells there lol

          (Honestly if you wanted fucking problematic Gordon was right there)

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      419 days ago

      It’s literally like 80% of the show’s concept. The idea was to hide morality plays behind wacky alien makeup.