@almar_quigley @startrek That looks fascinating.
Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.
@almar_quigley @startrek That looks fascinating.
@Son_of_dad @StillPaisleyCat To be fair, Ricardo Montalbán also didn’t have the appropriate ethnic ancestry either…
@TheGiantKorean He also had a terrific recurring guest role in the drama Damages.
@mycatiskai @startrek I’ve always been uncomfortable with how much Star Wars fandom has embraced the iconography of the Empire.
@cygnus The earlier books have fantastic, well-thought out space combat scenes, fairly well informed by physics and orbital mechanics.
Everything around those scenes is cringeworthy, and gets much worse as the series goes on. (Honor may be the most Mary Sue character ever.)
@Uranium3006 @startrek Arguably the original vision was far less sexist, with a female second in command (which the network quashed). Even having a female as part of the bridge crew was ahead of its time.
@HeartyBeast @startrek *Please* can we forget them?
@StillPaisleyCat @startrek Of *course* their programming language would require a special keyboard.
@ZenkorSoraz To paraphrase a developer from the ‘80s: “I don’t know what the language of the future will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
@MaxMouseOCX @startrek That’s not the criterion for the Bechdel Test — it’s ONE conversation between two women that’s not about a man.
@Blamemeta Yes, that’s TOS.
@Blamemeta TOS, and Roddenberry’s original vision, was all about diversity/inclusivity.
@Blamemeta Have you actually *seen* Star Trek?
@FaceDeer @startrek Modern Trek has *really* pushed both the opposition to genetic enhancement and the prohibition of sentient AI. I suppose it is kinda in keeping with the “humanism” of the source material, but it seems like a blinkered view of the future. (I contrast it with the similarly post-scarcity Culture novels, where both biological modification and artificial Minds are common.)