Star Trek Social Club

@ValueSubtracted Thanks for the reminder. Yeah, I would never link because eww, but a screenshot for general pointing-and-laughing was just too tempting.

Yeah it's a profoundly stupid take.

There's the famous Whoopi Goldberg quote about how as a little kid she saw it with a black woman not beimg a maid and running around the house screaming about it in celebration

There's the famous story about Nichelle Nichols wanting to quit to do plays until MLK jr told her that she needed to stay for black people everywhere to be represented as an equal member of the crew, and it was the only show he'd let his kids stay up late to watch.

From its inception it's been "woke" by daring to put both a black woman and an asian man in roles where they were to be treated as equals and valued members of the group.

I'd like to add more examples, but it's been so long since I've watched any star trek.

EDIT: I just remembered the not at all subtile jab at racism with the two guys that had half black half white faces.

Conservatives do not understand subtext, satire, or allegory. They don't assign what they like or don't based on any meaningful understanding of the message it conveys. They get told what to like and believe by authority and follow it, constantly dismissing or dissonancing any message from what they consume that doesn't align with their instilled beliefs.

@Zephorah And all of this is pretty obvious to anyone with their brain turned on. But even that seems a bridge too far for some.

Yeah conveniently the photo they chose left uhura out...

Probably just a coincidence

@PhilipTheBucket They get such a shallow understanding of things, and then get all butt hurt when other people provide a much more logical interpretation based on the specifically stated intents of the original show creators.

@Kirk Gotta appreciate the thinly veiled "great fan replacement" theory. How very subtle. I'm sure the author (whoever that is) felt ever so witty.

Well the reasoning in the article has nothing to do with the audience being conservative. It's: Star Trek has a mainly male audience. Males are conservative. Then they show some picture how males went more conservative some 50 years(!) after it aired... I'm speechless. Maybe AI "reasoning". Or just very, very stupid.

Weird. My stay at home mom and favorite aunt watched it back when TVs had 5 stations on a dial. They introduced me, female, to it at a young age. None of us are Trump voters.

The only dislike expressed was for the Spock’s brain episode. They still talk about what a terrible episode they thought it was.

Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking? The wiki says it’s always been a diverse viewership with a slight skew to male.

It seems the only data provided about the demographics and political leanings of the fandom are anecdotal accounts from social media. Do you think it ever occurred to the author that they might just have an algorithm that recognizes their preference for shitty content?

@don Toxic masculinity is a helluva drug.

Republican levels, so checks out?

Remember not so long ago when people noticed that Rise Against makes political songs? A lot of people are blind to stuff like this until you point it out.

Bold of you to assume they know it's space communism. If the boys is of any indication Star Trek needs to explicitly say "we're space communism" for there to be a 50/50 chance of Republicans getting it.

@LadyMeow I was hoping they'd all be raptured a couple of weeks ago. Imagine all the problems that would have immediately been solved.

Not just Republicans...anyone that votes for a conservative party.

@owenfromcanada @socprof

I was only 14 when I put on my big boy pants and learned from the Bell Riots that socialism was bad and I will forever ignore the factors that create such mass unemployment.

Bring back the DS9 writers if they are willing, also fuck Rick Berman.

I agree with all you said, I just can't believe it is possible for conservative viewers of the show to be blindered to the numerous, numerous ways where the show morals, both implied and very much stated, are antithetical to the entire value structure of the modern right-wing of the USA.

But then again, when I think of the Trek fans I know in real life, it is surprising how many of them are Republicans. Not a majority, but enough. So they might just be overlooking the things they don't agree with.