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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Jets fans chant 'should have kicked it' after goal called back in Game 5English3·1 day agoBut was it PROPELLED?! This is an important distinction, which is why the rule book spends so much time on it…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Stars' Jamie Benn fined for roughing Jets' Mark ScheifeleEnglish2·1 day agoHopefully they’ll just let it go - the Jets don’t need any distractions.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Jets fans chant 'should have kicked it' after goal called back in Game 5English5·2 days agoI’m not normally one for fan chants, but that was good comedy.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is WeirdEnglish6·3 days agoI was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English3·3 days agoClothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”
Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.
they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent
“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?
voodoo religious rituals
I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?
they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well
And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.
Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones
“Brown”
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English5·3 days agoThat would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.
One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English12·4 days agoIt’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.
In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English63·4 days agoI always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.
Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”English16·4 days agoI think the cranium size was the biggest “miss” in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Prime Minister Carney unveils major cabinet overhaul with two dozen new facesEnglish6·4 days agoI certainly agree that it needs government oversight and attention. A ministry, though…I’m not convinced, and inclined to think the worst when “we’ll use AI to fix the government” was a consistent taking point during the campaign.
But it was rightly pointed out that AI is only part of the name. I’d just as soon it not be there, but we’ll see what happens.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Prime Minister Carney unveils major cabinet overhaul with two dozen new facesEnglish411·4 days agoI don’t know if there’s any scenario where I think it’s worthy of its own ministry.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Prime Minister Carney unveils major cabinet overhaul with two dozen new facesEnglish712·4 days agoFormer journalist Evan Solomon takes on a newly created role as minister of artificial intelligence.
Ugh.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals after recount shows candidate won by single voteEnglish25·7 days agoIt was a BQ riding, not CPC.
July 1 is his self-established deadline.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace ComedyEnglish11·8 days agoThere’s absolutely no reason to think any show is being made “instead of” another.
Edit: And as Newsome herself stated, this series has not been greenlit. It may not get made at all.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace ComedyEnglish4·9 days agoI don’t think you needed [sic]
Just wanted to make sure - I stumbled over that sentence when reading it!
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace ComedyEnglish21·9 days agoIt’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.
I think of Trek Central as the “scrappy outsider” of Star Trek new sites, but I do consider them to be a reliable source, and that trademark application is certainly authentic.
We’ll see if anything comes of it.