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In reply to the discussion: Trump supporters go to Star Trek convention. It didn't go well [View all]
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Trump supporters go to Star Trek convention. It didn't go well [View all]
SocialDemocrat61
Aug 2024
OP
Star Trek always had multicultural themes. maga just is inconsistent with Star Trek
mucifer
Aug 2024
#1
One of the best movies of the 80s, the theme song is STILL an inspiration of mine
uponit7771
Aug 2024
#127
I doubt it seriously. Anyone with the tiniest of clues about what Star Trek is all about knows about what it
SWBTATTReg
Aug 2024
#66
Worf struggled a bit with Jadzia's transition from Curzon. Beverly Crusher's relationship did not survive transition.
Marcuse
Aug 2024
#210
Worf struggled with that too. I don't remember if it ever was resolved. I recall Quark and Bashir sniffing around Ezri.
Marcuse
Aug 2024
#212
I'm fed up with their othering, empowering the wealthy, turning the planet into a dump, not being human much less equal
TheKentuckian
Aug 2024
#133
You might feel differently if you actually had a few conversations "across the divide."
pat_k
Aug 2024
#135
Don't tell me what my own lived experience is or who I talk to or live amongst.
TheKentuckian
Aug 2024
#138
They asked one of the actors what their political opinion was. The MAGATs didn't like her answer.
hadEnuf
Aug 2024
#188
Lt. Uhura: "Enterprise to Captain Kirk. The alien transmission reads, Kamala is a DEI who just turned Black".
Marcuse
Aug 2024
#113
I simply type "nt" and preceded it by spaced dots to separate it from the title. . . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2024
#160
My forward slash is on a text options button on my keyboard, I have to hit the thing to type a slash and exit it after
ArkansasDemocrat1
Aug 2024
#184
Star Trek is about teaching lessons of inclusion - NOT exclusion or "othering."
harumph
Aug 2024
#10
The values behind STAR TREK, ever since Gene Rodenberry created it, have been about inclusion
ZonkerHarris
Aug 2024
#12
Plus the first interracial kiss in US television history - Kirk & Uhura . . . .
hatrack
Aug 2024
#95
The fact that Star Trek cast members are pro Harris and anti-TFG makes me smile
LetMyPeopleVote
Aug 2024
#14
Unfortunately I heard Grace Lee Whitney repeating Limbaugh statements at the Con she was at
ArkansasDemocrat1
Aug 2024
#97
Every Star Trek series from the beginning is set in a liberal world and culture.
Hermit-The-Prog
Aug 2024
#18
Jeri Ryan was married to Jack Ryan who was the 2004 GOP Senate candidate in Illinois
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Aug 2024
#21
Yep, iirc, Ryan was quite a bit ahead in the polls. It was Ryan's race to lose.
Hassin Bin Sober
Aug 2024
#62
maga wants to take everyone's rights away that doesn't look like them, but then they compalin
Takket
Aug 2024
#22
It's still echoing back and forth on the cliffs of Machu Picchu. n/t
ArkansasDemocrat1
Aug 2024
#152
Your friends might've been better off saying "Hail Landru! Blessed be the body, and health to all of its parts."
SupportSanity
Aug 2024
#32
Let's turn them into sapient tribbles with the transporter and beam them to Kronos!
ArkansasDemocrat1
Aug 2024
#99
If they dont want to feel like they are hated the solution is not to be a douchebag and support Trump.
cstanleytech
Aug 2024
#41
Remember when that idiot church from Missouri went to ComicCon in San Diego with their "You're Going to Burn in Hell"...
EarnestPutz
Aug 2024
#42
Yep, that's the one. I knew I was close and just figured it didn't really matter. The.....
RussellCattle
Aug 2024
#129
Not a problem. It got me wondering if there was a similar group of crazies in MO 2F
niyad
Aug 2024
#131
Folks do not like people that show support a person who is found guilty of 34 felonies, sexual abuse (rape), & fraud.
ashredux
Aug 2024
#43
Funny how embracing fascists, fascism and insurrection and working destroy democracy
Sky Jewels
Aug 2024
#48
Why can't people go to football games, car shows, libraries, or THEIR OB-GYN...
Beartracks
Aug 2024
#51
And, they weren't that good l. I'd rather have a good adaptation of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
ArkansasDemocrat1
Aug 2024
#158
The lesson they should have learned is that if 7 of 9 could get free of the Borg Collective, there's hope for them.
Girard442
Aug 2024
#69
Wait...the friends wanted to turn their brains off...so they went to a Star Trek convention?
COL Mustard
Aug 2024
#70
I know right? Keep your religion out of my schools, libraries, courts and Congress and I'll keep my complaints about it
meadowlander
Aug 2024
#85
That would require them to know some small slice of history. That is asking too much of them
Attilatheblond
Aug 2024
#91
Darn those Star Trek women for being real people with ideas and opinions, who want to defeat evil Orange Turd.
Timeflyer
Aug 2024
#83
These idiots calling Kamala "low IQ" remind me of when their ilk tried to insult Spock's intelligence.
Marcuse
Aug 2024
#111
We should star trek the fascists and plant them all on a quaint lil planet with Ceti eel's for pets. nt
ImNotGod
Aug 2024
#153
Snowflakes still haven't a clue that it is not an actual PARTY and doesn't need defended 24.7.365?
Brainfodder
Aug 2024
#165