Its like that scene in the pilot of community where Jeff snaps the pencil:
Jeff Winger: What makes humans different from other animals? We’re the only species on earth that observes Shark Week. Sharks don’t even observe Shark Week, but we do. For the same reason I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this…
[breaks pencil] Abed reacts in shock
Jeff Winger: and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything. We can sympathize with a pencil, we can forgive a shark, and we can give Ben Affleck an Academy Award for screenwriting.Humans are good at anthropomorphizing everything. Even aliens.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They don’t like it.
Well now you’ve gone and made him feel bad.
Man, when Data express emotions 😬
Agimus intensifies
Even Ben Affleck.
“Humans are the loveable idiots in the galaxy.”
See also: Farscape.
Well anytime the humans try to stereotype the others to support an argument of “we can’t ally our selves with them” there’s always some lieutenant noting “but Anderson over there isn’t like twice as [insert stereotype] and we generally manage to deal with him.”
Humans have so much more variance than Vulcans or Klingons or any of the other races which are just incredibly narrow societies ideologically.
Typical definition of outgroups.
We are: <many good things, with variability, nuance and tolerance>
They are: <not as good, shallow and not complex, predictable>
Hence lieutenant Woof is always saying “they’re going to attack us, we should attack first” every episode.
Then there’s romulans. Fuck romulans.
Then there’s romulans. Fuck romulans.
That reminds me, I still hope Picard got with Laris.
OMG, the kids actually saved the marriage.
It’s just that humans get to have all kinds of personalities while other races are for the most part depicted as being exactly what the cliche of their races would be if they truly existed.
Therefore Star Trek is racist.
I really enjoyed Strange New Worlds portrayal of vulcans, they were much more nuanced.
I really appreciate that the new shows actually demonstrate how Spock and T’Lyn are mavericks. They only seem stoic and stuffy because they’re around humans; put them with other vulcans and they’re clearly much more emotional and, counterintuitively, more rational, than their peers.
“I regret that you had to witness that outburst.”
someone find that long post about how the vulcans let us lead because all the crazy shit we do makes breakthroughs that nobody saw coming
Do you mean this exchange?
I feel like I’ve seen an entirely different one, but this was awesome thanks for sharing
omfg i haven’t seen the FULL thing in like 5 years. just the bit about punching through universes. thank you :D
Aw man this makes me miss /r/hfy
Space capybara
