William Shatner responds to Stephen Miller

[SocialDemocrat61]

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I am so on the same page with you @StephenM!
The fact that they have not cure Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers!😤

Also @paramountplus needs to up the budget because I’m sure that a well oiled organization like Starfleet in the distant future could afford more than one pair of glasses for at least this hyperopic bridge crew.🤷🏼

Do they pass the glasses 👓 around while piloting the ship‽ 🙄

Shame on the line producers!

🤔That is what you meant, right‽ 😉👍🏻

I am ready to assume command of the series!

Call me! 🤙🏻🙂!

[Norrrm]

1. OK. So, I had to look it up.

[wolfie001]

2. Can someone translate this nerd-speak?

Thanks

[GusBob]

4. Hyperopia is the medical term for farsightedness

Actually the term hypermetropia is also used

[SocialDemocrat61]

5. Go here

https://www.google.com/

[wolfie001]

8. Hey Einstein, what I want to know is why Shatner seems to be.....

....having a mild back and forth banter with a POS nazi. A cute little laugh while this scum is killing people.

[SocialDemocrat61]

17. Einstein?

[wolfie001]

22. If you know, you know

[Lovie777]

3. The logic perplex me.....................

that magas, nazis, rwers, kkk, white supremacist, white nationalists, overall hateful individuals and groups like Star Trek?

Stat Trek ideology is the complete opposite of them.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. True.

They do not get the meaning of the show. They just see conquerors traveling to other planets and making them 'American'.

It is some serious selective reception, let me tell you!

[edhopper]

7. Shatner does not remember

that they have a cure for hyperopia, but Kirk was allergic to Retinax 5.

Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan.

[RetiredParatrooper]

9. Deep Geek!

I love it!

[ProfessorGAC]

14. That's Why He Had...

...the antique reading glasses he sold in Star Trek IV!

[slightlv]

19. Just so McCoy could gift them to him again!!!

I hope I can keep my marbles and wit as sharp as Shatner has at 90+ years old. As far Maga types liking Star Trek, it really is a mystery if you try to assign any reason other than they absolutely do not understand a damned thing about the show. Talk about the original "Woke" TV! (LOL) That, and Twilight Zone. Unfortunately, the morality plays are totally lost on them. They couldn't critically think their way out of a paper bag!

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. He was being sarcastic

[edhopper]

26. Of course he was

as was I.

[SocialDemocrat61]

29. Yes

But he did it well. 😉

[Ilsa]

16. This nerd has just fallen in love with you. nt

[FascismIsDeath]

24. I'm 100% sure he was being sarcastic.

[edhopper]

27. See answer #26

[GreenWave]

10. And you must remember this: They boldly go where noone has gone before, except

when they get "there" there are always others who got there before.

[WestMichRad]

11. Ha!

[Kaleva]

20. It worked with the original wording

[FakeNoose]

12. What's with Shatner using all those old-style selfies? Really!?!

I'm starting to think it wasn't written by Bill Shatner at all. Maybe his great-granddaughter?

[BradBo]

13. Apperantly Murderer Miller is a Star Trek fan, how weirdly normal. Vomit.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. Stephen Miller can go to hell

sick to see Shatner responding positively to him

[SocialDemocrat61]

23. He was being sarcastic

[FascismIsDeath]

25. He was gently mocking him. Its pretty obvious.

Miller is going on one of his rants about "OMGZ TEH WOKE!!!" and Shatner turns it into a "oh yea, you're angry about something, it MUST be the glasses that one character wears, right? That is what you were talking about? Right?" kinda thing.

Shatner has already been blasting the Trump administration over the various ways they've been trying to screw with Canada.

[LymphocyteLover]

28. OK, good, thanks-- I guess it went over my head

[gulliver]

21. Would love to see Shatner assume command

Star Trek was a deep cultural stake for 60s progressive ideas. Brilliant writing from D.C. Fontana to Harlan Ellison to Richard Matheson. Daring, funny, smart, sexy.

It's now just another IP handed to generic hacks and "wunderkindern." I don't know that Shatner could give it depth and relevance again. Certainly not by himself. I'd like to see it become a limited run TV series with the quality of writing of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica or, better, something like Fargo, the TV series.