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Give yourselves a round of applause πŸ–– (sh.itjust.works)
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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, its not like Star Trek suddenly went woke, its been woke. First ever TV kiss between mixed races was between Kirk and Uhura. Scandalous.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's actually a common misconception. Not to downplay the significance of what Shatner and Nichols pulled off to get around the various censors (ruining alternate takes and such), but many TV shows did it before Star Trek.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shatner is on that list multiple times. That man had an agenda.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    He likes his coffee how he likes his women.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think it was the first one that was both broadcast nationally in a primetime slot and where the actors were easily identifiable as having different ethnicities on a tiny TV screen. Would explain the misconception.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Late 30s here- it blows my mind that we don't have to look very far into that past for the Shatner/Nichols smooch to be remarkable.

    It's uplifting to me. This present world can be ugly, but it's comforting to think that the kiss is almost mundane when compared to the present.

    A win is a win!

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  • [+] -16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    And they're not even that woke. Afaik they still ocasionally eat animals in the 24th century. (Unless they're Vulcan.) Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit πŸ˜†

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They have food replicators. The only thing not vegan about replicated meat is that they'd probably use your poop as bulk material to synthesize stuff

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could just replicate the eggs, or even a raw steak to grill, would still be poop meat.

    Neelix on the other hand...

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The replicators are also used to "recycle", converting matter into energy, to be used for future replication.

    I doubt they were hauling poop through space rather than converting it to poop energy for their next earl grey.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah they have. But don't they go on to tell in several episodes of all of the shows, how someones mom makes/made the best X/Y out of real ingredients and how much better that tastes than replicated food? And they eat on some planets with other people or on vacation... ?! Or someone worked in a restaurant?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit πŸ˜†

    You mean like "agree to date me or else I'll date the younger clone of you?"

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