Yes! We have that too. It’s so addicting to get sucked into every time I come across it.

Great example! I had forgotten that one. I guess that’s a sign it’s time for a Voyager rewatch.

Why do you say that? They hold no power over us, nor us over them. They can’t control what we choose to store on our own hard drives.

Sharing here because the free speech instance censored it

When did Trump or Biden attack the country of Iraq? Iraq is a US strategic partner and the US basically pays for their entire military. Even claiming Obama attacked the nation of Iraq is a big overreach, imo.

I agree but that has nothing to do with the “Nu” pejorative assigned to Kelvinverse films.

The reactionary racists and trolls started reapplying the term to the Black Lady show and pretended that crying a lot is somehow the same thing as Captain Kirk riding a motorcycle through a flaming ring.

in my culture shitting on anything except the three kelvinverse films is a no no

California can still block the deal but I agree it does not look good right now.

At some point I think we will just have to accept that these old guard institutions are dinosaurs that will eventually die because they cannot adapt to the times. The supply of conservative media is already outstripping demand. And unless we get a genuine taxpayer funded fascist media people just aren’t going to watch.

“Datalore” is another one that’s important, but it’s not very good. Most of the episode is Wesley running around trying to convince the grown-ups that Data is being weird and being ignored. It’s the one where Picard tells him to “shut up”.

It says right in the meme “a lot of my masking is just making myself more palatable for other people”

Implying Spock is fictional

I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.

Same. A lot of that stuff just feels more comfortable with time and I appreciate how Star Trek always pushes it a little bit. People FREAKED OUT with the Klingon changes in TMP/TNG. Then FREAKED OUT that DS9 was on a space station with a “politically correct” captain. Now we think of those things as normal, nostalgic even.

I liked it too, but I find rebuilding to be aspirational. Like maybe the most aspirational thing possible.

You didn’t say Discovery villains didn’t “have nuance and development”. So no, I didn’t say that either.

• Nihilistic, apocalyptic future

Do you have any examples of the Nihilism? I’m struggling to think of any… In fact Season 3 was about maintaining optimism and faith in the strength of the Federation against unbelievable odds.

• Bad guys that are just bad, they’re evil, don’t ask questions

Khan, Gul Dukat and the Clown from Voyager were all in Discovery?

• One principal star of the show that is the focus of nearly every episode

I agree that there was a main character, but I also enjoy a lot of media with a main character so I don’t see that as a bad thing.

• No attempt to explain things with any veneer of science

I suggest you avoid watching TNG and TOS because they do the same thing!

To be clear- this is just your personal “vibe” and not an actual fact, because the term “third world country” literally means a country that is not aligned with the US or USSR. If you meant “developing nation” that term also has a definition the US does not meet.

First of all, that’s not what “Economic Freedom” means in the context of democracy, but more importantly “economic freedom” is not even a factor in the methodology used by the group this article is citing.

Which ones? Searched and couldn’t find anything. This MotleyFool article is over 4 years old when COVID was still raging, hardly “recent”.

This is still the best at capturing it, imo: https://xkcd.com/1732/