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minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoThey didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.
minus-squareblockheadjt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoThere will never come a time in which we have everything figured out.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoYes but that doesn’t mean we should never look back and see how far we’ve come, just as we look forward and see how far we have to go.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoexcuse me, i have a degree in bullshit. We have figured out everything. 1+1=2. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAnd new people who haven’t figured out yet are born all the time!
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoThe message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoIt helps when every other planet is a severely flawed monocolutre.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI think that’s the real message of Star Trek in general!
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 year agoAnd TOS/ENT in particular ENT gets bonus points for shran calling humans “pink skins” when Travis is right fucking there on the bridge
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoMcCoy called Spock “green-blooded” on multiple occasions - and once a “hobgoblin”. And I would call the Vulcan penchant for logic a cultural trait, not neurodiversity.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-21 year agoAnd there will be things that are being created today that’s considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.
minus-squareAa!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoYou should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong
They didn’t have everything figured out back then. For one, they bullied Spock for what we could only describe today as his neurodiversity.
There will never come a time in which we have everything figured out.
Yes but that doesn’t mean we should never look back and see how far we’ve come, just as we look forward and see how far we have to go.
excuse me, i have a degree in bullshit. We have figured out everything. 1+1=2. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
And new people who haven’t figured out yet are born all the time!
The message I got from McCoy was that humans got along because they found new people to be racist against instead of each other
It helps when every other planet is a severely flawed monocolutre.
I think that’s the real message of Star Trek in general!
And TOS/ENT in particular
ENT gets bonus points for shran calling humans “pink skins” when Travis is right fucking there on the bridge
McCoy called Spock “green-blooded” on multiple occasions - and once a “hobgoblin”. And I would call the Vulcan penchant for logic a cultural trait, not neurodiversity.
And there will be things that are being created today that’s considered progressive that in 20 years, will be considered as missing the mark.
You should see the episode when a woman body swapped with Kirk, and how the Enterprise crew suspected something was wrong