▲ 218 ▼ What normies see when someone posts here claiming Discovery isn't canon (startrek.website) submitted 2 years ago* by Lwaxana@startrek.website to c/risa@startrek.website 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) TOS is underrated permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children) ALL Star Trek is underrated. Star Trek should have been the property that influences the entire culture of the United States of America, like how Doctor Who influences the culture of the United Kingdom. Instead, US culture is based around Star Wars and Star Trek is regulated to a bunch of punchlines that normal people know just enough to understand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago This is a hot take out of, like, 1979. The general public hasn't had this relationship to Trek in a long ass time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Star Wars is a story about how America is bad and fascism can be defeated through the power of taoist philosophy. That doesn't sound like the currently dominant American value system to me permalink fedilink source parent [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 years ago I honestly don't care permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children) ALL Star Trek is underrated. Star Trek should have been the property that influences the entire culture of the United States of America, like how Doctor Who influences the culture of the United Kingdom. Instead, US culture is based around Star Wars and Star Trek is regulated to a bunch of punchlines that normal people know just enough to understand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago This is a hot take out of, like, 1979. The general public hasn't had this relationship to Trek in a long ass time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Star Wars is a story about how America is bad and fascism can be defeated through the power of taoist philosophy. That doesn't sound like the currently dominant American value system to me permalink fedilink source parent [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 years ago I honestly don't care permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago This is a hot take out of, like, 1979. The general public hasn't had this relationship to Trek in a long ass time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Star Wars is a story about how America is bad and fascism can be defeated through the power of taoist philosophy. That doesn't sound like the currently dominant American value system to me permalink fedilink source parent
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 years ago I honestly don't care permalink fedilink source parent
