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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Stamets to c/tenforward
 

So I've been barely active on Lemmy for a litany of reasons but I am active elsewhere. Specifically, Bluesky. I run an account that I've posted here a couple times called the Starfleet Press Office where I post lil tweets that take place kinda within the Star Trek universe, breaking the fourth wall to an extent. The idea is that the Department of Temporal Investigations owed a favor to the team in charge of the S.P.O so he got a temporal link to Bsky set up. For fun. So random tweets get posted that are commenting on current episodes (A few were made for different Lower Decks episodes as they were posted), other ones about just random events in the universe that I think would be funny (sometimes lining up with holidays, like some Santa teleportation nonsense), and others that take real world events and parody them in the Star Trek universe, like the ferengi CEO of a health insurance conglomerate getting killed.

I'm clearly doing something right because @RealGulDukat, the guy who posts Trump tweets as if Dukat said them, follows only 13 people on Bsky and one of them is me. So whatever nonsense I keep posting I'm just gonna stick with. Drop by and say hi!

Starfleet Press Office / @Starfleet-Command on Bsky

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[–] someguy3 7 points 2 days ago

Space Jesus? In my prophets?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives: Black Jesus? Jesus was from the middle east .... Bisexual Terrorist? rebels against tyranny are not identified by sexuality .... Trans Worm? it's just another alien .... Dr Twink and his fashion Lizard boyfriend? what happens in another star system stays in another star system .... traumatized goo? just keep it in a jar ... communist himbo? we defeated communism in the 20th century ... PRO-UNION IRISHMAN????!!!!!!

[–] someguy3 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PRO-UNION IRISHMAN????!!!!!! But O'Brien must suffer!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The plight of union men throughout the ages, really.

[–] chonglibloodsport 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don’t see how the Trill experience is like the trans experience in anything but the most superficial way. Unless we’re saying that a trans person’s new identity is something that was external and has since been imposed and internalized.

But that doesn’t get it right either. Every trans person I’ve met has rejected their previous identity and adopted a new one, but Trill incorporate their old identity into the new, and form a kind of synthesis.

The last part I find incongruous is that trans people work so hard to align their physical presentation with their internal experience so that others’ treatment of them reflects their self-perception but Trill defy this. Jadzia Dax presents very strongly as fem but behaves very outwardly as masc. This is a character ultimately designed to satisfy the male gaze and the male desire for a “drinking buddy”; i.e. the “action girl” trope.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Fine! I will sign up for Blue sky! I don't want to, but if it's got 100% more Stamets Flavor then I'll do what I need to do!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the Union that's too far for them.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 1 points 2 days ago

The cops protected by the police union...vote anti-union

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Woke was never the problem.

The virtue signalling to cover up terrible writing, acting and directing, is. DS9 was awesome, just like TNG. Any star trek after 2000 has just been anything but good, anything but star trek.

The Orville is a great example of how to upgrade star trek for modern times, it was the star trek we never got

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Orville is painfully derivative. It’s not the Star Trek show we never got, it’s reheated leftovers of the Star Trek show we already had thirty years ago.

NuTrek has certainly had its writing failures (looking in Picard’s direction), but at least it generally tried to let the franchise evolve.

And none of those failures had anything to do with “virtue signalling”. They’ve mostly been the result of committing to a season long arc with no meaningful plan and fumbling the ball halfway to the finish line.

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