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.

And yet it still happens. There are right-wing bigots who watch Star Trek for the pew pew space battles and ignore the rest, sad as that may be.

People were cosplaying Junge Werther in the 1800s, it's just a thing people do.

I have that book! It's super cool. It's themed as a document made by the military about information on the Federation that leaked into the past.

There's also diagrams of space stations and ships, and small things, like how to properly decorate sleeves and badges for rank and division.

I threw up the horns. It was nuts as a middle school girl, when Voyager first started airing, and everyone was so angry about Janeway and when I'd ask why they would turn red and shake their head, or change the topic.

It's true. It's not been a totally smooth ride. It's taken work to educate fellow fans, and making the intolerant unwelcome.

Like there was early "controversy" about Geordie getting to be on the bridge. Which seemed kind of logical, but if you scratched below the surface you'd see how selective that critique was. That it was just racism and ableism

They figured a way to fabricate their own. Like the shuttles.

Say that again and I'll tuvix the shit out of you!!

(Then there will be two of you, but better, Im showing you mercy)

Joel vs. Mike

Mike is a great writer but Joel by far has the better timing and delivery. Not to derail the thread or anything.

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Maybe the recent controversy from Warhammer 40k where Games Workshop retconned women space marines into existence? I dunno, did Star Wars do something to trigger the sexists since then, that controversy is a few weeks old now.

I took it as a (mistaken) reference to the scene in The Last Jedi when Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) rams into a star destroyer in hyperspace, a maneuver which destroyed both ships and made people wonder why they didn’t just hyperspace into shit all the time instead of building warships and getting shot all the time.

It happened in the same point in the movie when she refuses multiple times to say that she has any plan whatsoever, leading to a lot of pointless fighting and was thought to have been some sort of commentary on “believing women” but very poorly executed.

Disney spent billions to destroy the Star Wars canon, but hopefully Trek can escape such a grisly fate.

That would be lens flare

Jar Jar Abrams