Go back to Reddit, I thought we were beyond blatant woman hating shit

Yeah, that’s another thing. Especially common among “exiled Cubans”/Cuban immigrants, who all seem to talk shit about Cuba and support conservative anti-Cuba organizations - well duh, if they had liked it in their home country, they would not be in the US today.

It’s a selection bias. It reminds me of the times transphobes started picking apart transfeminine subreddits detailing how much misogyny, hentai, sexualization and typically male socialization things like hardcore gaming, programming, fringe ideologies and “edgy dank memes” were common there and that it supposedly shows that trans women are only really men. Well, duh, you’re on Reddit! Probably the most male dominated mainstream social media site! It’s not a trans thing, it’s a Reddit thing, and by just looking at Reddit, you are just looking at a subset of people who were socialized male and stay in those socialization spots. If they went looking for transfeminine people on more traditionally feminine-dominated social media sites like Tumblr or Instagram, they would find a completely different group of people who might look at the Reddit community with animosity. It’s like looking at women on 4chan for women’s issues.

I don’t mean the political takes or anything, I meant more the super-stiff acting, the campy premises and the lacklustre “world building”, even though I dislike the term. All not the fault of the show at the time or anything, but I cannot enjoy any TOS rewatch these days.

How did we get from “in the future, humanity can build a utopia if we leave conservatism in the past and boldly go to explore the wonders of space” to “the power of friendship and believing in good® is the only thing saving humanity from the cruel world we have built”?

I mean, it fits the Americanized capitalist realism of new Trek, but it’s depressing. When did we downgrade back to platitudes and traditionalist values?

From campy 60s sci-fi written by a visionary, to upper class rich Hollywood writers’ idea of what’s “brave”? I feel more represented in the first one than in the high-fidelity America advertisement in the second picture. Not by much though, TOS hasn’t aged well.

DS9 is the pinnacle of queer Trek.

TOS really hasn’t aged well, but Discovery isn’t even up that low bar.

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Yarr, her head full of goo.

I’m glad! Happy (belated) birthday!

You’re the kind of guy to argue that when I cut a sandwich in half then there are two sandwiches.

Am I not the same person as I was yesterday?

Sure, I am now different both to a molecular level and due to the experiences I have made since, but for all linguistic and social intents and purposes, I am the same person I was yesterday. Because “person” is already an arbitrary term we put on this collection of atoms merely based on continuity, like the Ship of Theseus. If we went by “spatial-temporal space”, then I would be space dust, a collection of bacteria, fluids, cells, proteins… and who “I” am would change every few seconds.

The same is true for two Rikers. That’s the entire point of the episode; that despite them diverging at the point of the cloning into two different people, they are still the same person and need to live with that.

Two people can be literally the same person. Your argument only works if there’s a magic law that says there can be only one real ‘you’.

I feel so talked down to by these. They’re even more unfunny/more quippy than the first season of Orville, and that’s saying something.

Why can’t some writers these days not just let something absurd be played straight and let the viewers laugh? Why do we need a character explaining the joke out loud? “Uh-oh, that alert isn’t part of the song! Guyss!” How to ruin a decently funny situation in one easy step.

Imagine if movies like “The Naked Gun”/“Police Squad” or “Airplane!” made the characters explain and comment on every funny moment.

CBS just really, really wants to drive home the point that they loathe golden age Trek. From erasing Janeway, Dax, Kira et al from “strong women of Trek” (before Prodigy) to constantly reinventing the wheel, to this.

Then if replicator technology isn’t able to kick start the process, how does transporter technology do it?

It physically pushes or moves the field, it does not recreate it.

Depends on the process by which a neural energy field first is created by an organism; whether it’s a “one time charge” thing or just a byproduct of their brains. If the latter, that’d throw the entire theory away since that just means you can replicate a brain and it starts going on by itself.

Fair, but I did say “we” cannot replicate life (with a big fat hypothetical “yet” at the end)