benfell

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[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

@Corgana People fawned over her because she was a loving character who did great. That greatness emerged from her redemption and would have been lost to whatever the Federation's idea of a prison cell in the 23rd century otherwise.

I've been on social media for a while and I have to say, this has all the hallmarks of a flame war. So this is all I'm going to have to say on the matter. You can throw darts at her photograph on your own wall.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

@Corgana That's what redemption is about. It's recognizing that even the greatest among us make mistakes and can still be great.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

@Corgana she did redeem herself.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 2 weeks ago

@data1701d @ValueSubtracted

Yeah, this'll be a hard pass for me too.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

@ValueSubtracted I recall noticing the sexism on Enterprise. I don't recall noticing it on Voyager, which had two strong female characters. But I'm an old man raised in a more chauvinistic era--I might not notice.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 6 points 1 month ago (12 children)

@ValueSubtracted @cybervseas

By such standards, the Original Series (#TOS) seems positively regressive. I don't mean to defend this, but I'm guessing that, at the time, it was perceived that Enterprise needed to fit into that regression.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 month ago

@usernamefactory I did manage to watch it all the way through, but I wouldn’t watch it again. Some of it is just too relentlessly horrific and it didn’t actually become interesting until the final few episodes before they cancelled it.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 month ago

@jalanhenning pretty normal for the era.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 5 points 2 months ago

@dethstrobe this M’Benga fellow seems like the most interesting character of the lot, with a backstory we’ve only seen bits and pieces of. It’s a shame Paramount will probably kill off its Star Trek franchise before we see more of it.