Posted on 07/14/2021 3:06:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
We will overcum...we will overcum...we will overcum...
Enterprise crew hold their ears in agony, including Uhura. Enterprise explodes.
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Hilarious and ROTFLMAO!! Thanks.
Very clever
Enjoyed!
Been a Star Trek fan since I was in second grade.
Went back last year and re-watched some of their later episodes. Major left wing spin.
Did realize they were left wing back then. Just thought they were stupid.
New Generation had an epi that borrowed from Bellamy’s Looking Backward. I’ve always wanted to do one of a hippy, or a 1930s outright commy, going into suspended animation and waking up in a better world, improved by Supply Side economics and deregulation, with communism on the run.
The episode that really upset me was when they go to a planet and Lwaxana Troy meets a guy (whos was the guy that played Winchester in MASH).
He lived in a society where when you reach a certain age you commit suicide, because you aren’t contributing enough.
Lwaxana tried to convince him otherwise. In the end he did.
It was so sick
I thought B5 was much fairer and balanced than ST even JMS is apparently a liberal.
I bailed out after TNG season 1. I also dislike the lady who plays Janeway.
I watched TNG off and on. At times it was unwatchable.
DS9 was better.
Mrs. Columbo didn’t do much for me either.
I bailed after season 1 as well. It seemed that they did not have any resolutions to their stories. They'd get caught by something which would let them go at the end. Often "Q" did it to teach them a lesson. I had really looked forward to a new Star Trek show and was sorry it did not pan out. A couple of years later, an old friend asked me if I was watching Star Trek TNG. I explained why I did not. He told me he agreed, but that the show really kicked in around the third season. I started watching reruns of it and agreed with him. There were actually several good second season shows, but the third (with the season-ending "Best of Both Worlds Part 1" cliffhanger) was really good. I stuck with the show for the duration after that. Sure there were some crappy episodes along the way, and some where the left-wing Roddenberryisms were over the top; but over all it got to be really good.
I also dislike the lady who plays Janeway.
Janeway was on Star Trek Voyager (the one with the sexy Borg chick). I never watched that one.
Yes, and he would join the BLM riots, convinced that the prosperity he sees all around him is evil and racist and must be destroyed. The marijuana that is now mostly legal would reinforce this paradigm, and he would be huffing it non-stop.
Thanks for your explanation. I will give my thumbnail overview of my main problems with THN:
1. Wesley Crusher was Lost in Space’s Will Robinson, only Billy Mumy was more convincing. When he didn’t keep off the grass and was to suffer the death penalty on the pleasure planet with selective enforcement, Picard should have demonstrated his commitment to the Prime Directive.
2. Troi was elevated to the same level on the bridge as the Captain. She was essentially a walking mood ring (Ferengi: “ “Heh-hehhh, Captain, I believe we can make an arrangement that will benefit BOTH of us! hee-hee!” Troi: “I sense deception, Captain!”)
3. Q puts the members of the Enterprise on trial for horrific crimes, and as a good liberal, includes McCarthyism as worthy of being included in his top ten. Then he mentions barbaric Capital Punishment. Picard: “We did away with that Barbarism eons ago!” Oh really! Wasn’t Spock up for the death penalty for a Code 4 violation with the death penalty the consequence (he was helping Captain Pike). Botching basic continuity in EPISODE 1 to score cheap political points told me much. If a casual watcher as myself can pick out such an obvious contradiction, it was done on purpose.
4. The Holodeck was a cheap device to compensate for the lack of new plots (and to cut down on the number of recycled plots). As in TOS, happy coincidences put the action into settings for which Paramount had sets. I’m surprised someone in the holodeck didn’t wind up in Laverne and Shirley’s brewery.
5. Brief glimpses of skinny male members of the Enterprise briefly seen wearing mini-dresses in the background. Those belong to Janice Rand. Don’t take her clothes!
6. They go to all that trouble to have a separate flyaway deck for family members and rarely incorporate it into the story. It was mainly an excuse to have Wesley the Pest in the story. Inexcusable when we know the Enterprise’s history of near disintegration on an almost monthly basis. It is tantamount to putting your wife and children into a sidecar of a WW I motorcycle, knowing you could release it before you hit the Maginot Line.
Again, these reflections were formed after only a handful of episodes, and a college pal and I watched it with pizza and beer to give it the MST3K treatment, taking a break from another Mothra movie.
They revisited McCarthyism in a 4th season episode called "The Drumhead" in which an overzealous prosecutor (actress Jean Simmons) tries to find some saboteurs. Since she is based on the left's idea of McCarthy, everybody is innocent and she eventually includes Picard in her "witch-hunt". Really pathetic.
Troi never really worked for me, but I guess she was no more out of place on the bridge than Bones was on TOS. I guess they felt the captain needed another sounding board.
The holodeck is described by Roddenberry in his plans for TOS, but they didn't develop it until TNG. It was kind of a lame idea, but they did a few interesting things with it. It usually didn't feature in the plots unless something went wrong with it and in merged into reality. One episode had a crew member who was using it to act out his fantasies with some of the crew members (something I could see happening). (The British comedy series Red Dwarf did a classic episode involving the merging of a virtual reality game in an attempt to root out a virus in their ship's computer in "Gunmen of the Apocalypse").
Even though the world of ST: TNG seems to be some sort of communist utopia, they made the Borg Collective into a nightmarish race that would fit in with any of the major 20th century commie regimes.
The show definitely improved after season one, and really hit its stride in season 3. There were duds along the way, but several really good episodes. The 2-part "Best of Both Worlds" featuring the Borg could have been a movie.
You made me think of Data, who reminds me of Rem from the ill-fated Logan’s Run TV series. The actor who played him was the only one who could act his way out of a paper bag. The difference was that Rem knew he was an android, and had no (simulated) desire to be anything else, and actually appeared almost more human as a result. Maybe I’ll give “Best of Both Worlds” a chance if I have the opportunity.
BTW, Bones didn’t actually have a permanent chair on the bridge, he was always walking onto the bridge holding something, but wasn’t elevated to a parallel rank but only the rank that came from being a skilled and committed member of Starfleet who earned James T./S. Kirk’s trust.
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