General Star Trek thread

Ha. 5 bucks says that was invented after the fact, by some desperate fans trying to rationalise something that forces you to look at people's junk 🤭 I'm going to presume TMPs uniform design has since been intentionally forgotten in the general timeline of Trek crew clothing.

"There was that one time we all wore Jimmy jams for a time but we try not to speak of it"

Some gameplay footage of that new Trek game surfaced: you can certainly see the Telltale Games lineage;

This gave me a good chuckle, while a fairly good recreation of the shítty animation style of TAS; the bonus classic Simpsons gag was also gold

Apparently Stacey Abrams - someone I'd know of but wouldn't recognise TBH, despite my interest in US politics - has been a life long Star Trek fan so good for her she got to cameo. That's pretty awesome

I didn't lose my shít when John McCain or Joe Biden appeared in Parks and Recreation; or Tony Blair(!) appeared on the Simpsons (can't recall if that was before or after the Iraq War mind). this is far from the first cameo by a current politician, and definitely not the most controversial either.

Let's not pretend any of us here wouldn't chew off a leg to have that chance of a walk on part. But something something liberals liberals. The politics Jim, the politics.

Who's complaining though? No greater empty vessel than the raging YouTube essay TBH and if the viewer + subscriber numbers still say Discovery is a hit, who cares what a noisy demographic think re. "politics". And if there's one thing that is increasingly clear, it doesn't take much for a certain minority to stream Woke! Politics! Liberals! In some cases, it can be as little as who's cast as the lead.

We've debated this before, and many times but Trek has always been as subtle as a hammer about its politics, it's simply that now "politics" has been magnified by the internet into a competitive sport, our media landscape fuelled by whipped up outrages. It's Recency Bias among other things; do we even have any posters here who were around when ToS originally aired?

The only real difference is the writing surrounding the politics is worse than before, Discovery an embarrassment in terms of professional scriptwriting - but in a franchise where "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was how it drew allegory can't be called a subtle, nuanced show about its poltiics.