benfell

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[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@Corgana People fawned over her because she was a loving character who did great. That greatness emerged from her redemption and would have been lost to whatever the Federation's idea of a prison cell in the 23rd century otherwise.

I've been on social media for a while and I have to say, this has all the hallmarks of a flame war. So this is all I'm going to have to say on the matter. You can throw darts at her photograph on your own wall.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

@Corgana That's what redemption is about. It's recognizing that even the greatest among us make mistakes and can still be great.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

@Corgana she did redeem herself.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@glorkon @USSBurritoTruck

Star Trek also assumes a truly post-scarcity society in which capitalism plays, at most, a small part.

One of the problems we face in assessing human potential is that we pretty much only know of humans since the Neolithic, when authority and wealth became increasingly centralized. In the Star Trek universe, while authority remains hierarchical and highly centralized, economic inequality is somewhat diminished. These are different sets of social premises and the outcomes might vary.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 3 weeks ago

@data1701d @ValueSubtracted

Yeah, this'll be a hard pass for me too.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

@ValueSubtracted I recall noticing the sexism on Enterprise. I don't recall noticing it on Voyager, which had two strong female characters. But I'm an old man raised in a more chauvinistic era--I might not notice.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 6 points 1 month ago (12 children)

@ValueSubtracted @cybervseas

By such standards, the Original Series (#TOS) seems positively regressive. I don't mean to defend this, but I'm guessing that, at the time, it was perceived that Enterprise needed to fit into that regression.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 month ago

@usernamefactory I did manage to watch it all the way through, but I wouldn’t watch it again. Some of it is just too relentlessly horrific and it didn’t actually become interesting until the final few episodes before they cancelled it.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 2 months ago

@jalanhenning pretty normal for the era.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 5 points 2 months ago

@dethstrobe this M’Benga fellow seems like the most interesting character of the lot, with a backstory we’ve only seen bits and pieces of. It’s a shame Paramount will probably kill off its Star Trek franchise before we see more of it.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat @hopesdead Yeah, I’m wondering if there’s a deal in the works that I, at least, hadn’t heard about.

Paramount has been too much in the news for the wrong reasons.

[–] benfell@infosec.exchange 1 points 2 years ago

@DharmaCurious

It wouldn't surprise me, but I don't know off hand whether The Expanse was based on a book series.

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