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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.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Opinion: It's time for a centralization movement in CanadaEnglish5·10 days agoA decent chunk of his argument is simply to push back against this…loudly.
Finally, it is time to start calling out a lot of provincial grievance for the rank bullshit it often is.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•At Mace Value: Not your father’s SenateEnglish4·12 days agoThanks - I find the “reformed” Senate fascinating.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Visited Vasquez RocksEnglish7·12 days agoPerhaps “urban” is the wrong word, but it ain’t exactly Cestus III, y’know?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Visited Vasquez RocksEnglish15·12 days agoAs someone who’s not familiar with the LA area, it blows my mind that those things are basically in the middle of an urban area.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Red Alert at Universal: Fan Fest NightsEnglish3·13 days agoThank you for sharing - we appreciate any and all first-person accounts of events!
I have to admit, when they first announced the Fan Fest Nights, my initial reaction was that it sounded like it would be kind of cheap and disappointing. But it seems like they did a really nice job of the Trek event, along with some of the others that I’ve read about (especially Back to the Future).
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Canon Connections: PRO 2x14 - Cracked MirrorEnglish2·13 days agoSo is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?
That was my takeaway - it’s got the power to propel the ship (much) higher into the warp 9.9XXXXX range.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Boldly Going Documentary: "a groundbreaking documentary that chronicles Bruce Horak's inspiring journey as the first blind actor to play a blind character in the Star Trek franchise"English2·13 days agoIn fairness, they brought him back twice in season two - once as a dancing Klingon, no less.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Star Trek Series In-DevelopmentEnglish7·15 days agoI 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.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is WeirdEnglish6·17 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”English3·17 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”English5·17 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”English12·17 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”English63·18 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”English16·18 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 facesEnglish6·18 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 facesEnglish411·18 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 facesEnglish712·18 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 voteEnglish25·20 days agoIt was a BQ riding, not CPC.
“Young Adult”