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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And yet, when someone dares to imagine a hopeful tomorrow in fiction: "Fuck you and your naive, pollyanna, childish, unrealistic horseshit, you dumb idiot."

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Star Trek would never have been greenlighted if it had been created in the late 70s or any point after that.

A post-scarcity society where humans (sometimes) get along with literal aliens? Not in THIS Neoliberal hegemony!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Star Trek would never have been greenlighted if it had been created in the late 70s or any point after that.

True, it has it's flaws, and has been abused through the years, but at core it represents HOPE in the future, a better world, competent, well educated people. Apparently that's not what the producers like. Boot, face, forever.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree completely and love your username! #BrownCoatsUnite

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you kindly.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Just watched the finale of DS9. It features an orange-hued dictator with bad skin and weird hair at the top of a dictatorship staffed by religiously-devoted yes-men, hyper-aggressive murder troopers, and cynical opportunists, who even as the whole thing is falling apart around their ears, keep trying to find another patsy to take the blame for the ever-deteriorating situation.

So, spot-on depiction of the future, really.