Posted on 01/29/2024 3:28:56 PM PST by lowbridge
The European Union has just run crosswise with Captain James T. Kirk, and by any measure the Captain is right to blast Europe’s left-wing, nanny state, cancel culture, loons for their latest “diversity” move.
This week, news broke that the EU — which apparently stands for Entirely Useless — is looking to make the world safe from evil “gendered” words, like man, male, guys, and anything testosterone related, The Telegraph reported.
This impinges directly on one of Captain Kirk’s most famous lines, the one that serves as the opening monologue to the famed 1966 series, “Star Trek.”
TV viewers and sci fi fans everywhere will recall that the iconic TV series starts out with views of the Starship Enterprise zooming across the screen as Captain Kirk intones “Space, the final frontier,” and ends his soliloquy with “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
But the EU is suddenly all shook up over that evil word “man” and is now sending out its royal edict that the word should henceforth be banned from use.
According to the Telegraph, “The classic ”Star Trek’ line, ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before,’ is also cited as an example where ‘women may be subject to invisibility or omission.'”
William Shatner, who briefly actually reached space during a Blue Origin flight in 2021, is the man who so ably portrayed Captain James T. Kirk, and he is not amused.
With news of the new authoritarian mandate, Shatner, who often blasts the childish, left-wing, social justice warrior trolls online, jumped to his X account to blast the legislators.
“Presentism at work yet again,” he said in his Monday post.
“Why start at Trek? Isn’t it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation material such as the Magna Carta, religious writings,
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> Anything would traumatize Wheaton. I think he was born that way. He’s so sissified. <
I’ve read about the Shatner-Wheaton feud, from Wheaton‘s point of view. You are exactly correct. Wheaton sounds like a little girl who’s complaining about someone not noticing her new shoes.
To boldly post what no Freeper has posted before!
“I read a tabloid story a couple of decades ago, saying that Shatner was “sex-crazed” and would hit on every woman on a set”
That certainly didn’t upset George Takei.
You, sir are a cunning linguist! (Though, don’t give up your job for comedy;)
I think the correct word is polysemy, and not homonym. The similarity of word is no more accidental than “Dog”.
I further think that I was mistaken in this case, and “No Man” may mean “Not any Man” more than it could mean “None of Mankind”.
It may not matter, as to object to the wording is revisionist wokism. The Enterprise had plenty of women on it.
At the time that Star Trek premiered, the only astronauts for the U S were men. Russia had one woman cosmonaut. That was “then” so Capt. Kirk was right.
But remember that Kirk had two women in his crew, Uhuru and Rand, one Japanese-American, one Scotsman and one Russian.
The show was way ahead of the UN aholes!
Star Trek the Next Generation changed the line.
“To boldly go where no one has gone before!”
They also had woke Picard and Riker and that wuss Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher. Watching that show was like being in a university meeting.
Romulans are attacking!
Picard: Everyone to the conference room for a staff meeting!
LOL!!! I would also add probably a few gerbils too.
It’s simply Bowdlerizing, something hoity toity Yourapeons have been doing since quaint Victorian times, an earlier period when oh-sosensitive ears could not bear to hear to vulgar the language of, Shakespeare, for example.
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/blog/thomas-bowdler-bowdlerizing-shakespeare/
I knew I liked Jim Kirk. I wonder if he is descneded form Russell Kirk.
Imagine thinking the Satanic EU is an ally and traditional Russia is an enemy. Weak minds do that.
For a White guy playing captain. Unacceptable in this day and age.
From my dictionary
“man...1. an adult male person. 2. a human being. 3. the human race....”
“Hogan’s Heroes” had a very diverse cast, but Klink, Schulz and Burkhalter were all Jewish.
Robert Clary’s family was almost all killed by Nazis as I recollect reading.
“Where no man has gone before”.
Somehow I can’t see spaceships having personal quarters full of cats and box-wine. Then again, I don’t remember seeing many bathrooms in space movies, either.
I’ve read that Adam West was doing eight women a day.
https://pagesix.com/2017/06/12/batman-star-adam-west-had-sex-with-eight-women-a-night/
According to Netflix the first moon landing involved a dangerously tragic transgender furry and a spunky Mexican dancer who went to the moon to prove his love for a Filipino house boy named ‘Dionne’.
“”He was willing to do self-parody in Airplane!””
In a SNL skit, Shatner addressed the Trekkies, and stated in no uncertain terms “Get a life!”
In the last Star Trek movie that was only the original cast, no TNG, I always wondered if Shatner insisted upon the very first words he spoke. As he entered the scene, he stated “what the hell are we doing here?”
One of my favorite original episodes is The Omega Glory. At the end of the episode, another planet had the United States Constitution as their Holy Documents. Captain Kirk read the Preamble to the Constitution with such force.
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