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Mixed feelings myself after viewing the trailer. Taken on its own I think I might enjoy it decently, because there's always a lot to be made fun of in Trek (good memories of Galaxy Quest always come to mind)...but this ostensibly actually takes place in the Trek universe so they need to walk a fine ...

The lack of deep dives into the surface-level politics that Picard (and Discovery to some extent) is really my biggest issue with them (another reason I can't take the "it's too political" complaints seriously). Let's just take one topic for example- the allegory for the refugee crisis in the form o...

Ah yes, the good ol' "The anti racists are just as bad as the racists" line. If you are an American, I assume you are familiar with the political term "states rights" and the baggage associated with that term (If not, a simple google search should illuminate you). If someone went around constantly s...

Of course we need to accept both sides, you always do. That's not the same as accepting that they're both equally valid, but it's wrong to simply dismiss one side because it doesn't fit in with your personal prejudices (that's not directed at you personally BTW) and claim to have any sense of moral...

I don't buy into the idea that we need to accept this "both sides"-ism stuff (specifically the idea of "it's too SJW" vs "it's not progressive enough") when we're talking about Star Trek of all things. In DS9 you literally had a character quoting the Communist Manifesto in one episode but the same p...

Yes, he does lump together ALL dislike as toxic. Quote where Chabon says this or don't be surprised when you're dismissed as arguing in bad faith. He only mentions two categories, those who bow down and worship him and sacrifice their firstborn children to his memo versus everybody else who is auto...

what I read is - "I'm purposely antagonizing and railing up people watching this show I feel like you're just misreading what he's saying, although admittedly he might've worded it in a slightly confusing way (at least when its written down in text). He says literally the opposite of doing this, ri...

fans who liked Gene's vision of optimistic Star Trek whom he lumps together with buzzwords of "toxic fans" and "anti-SJWs" That's not what he was doing there at all, and I don't understand why any time a creator says something similar there's a large squad of people looking to be offended (ironical...

I'd say "Transgenders didn't choose this future" in response to that, but we all know there are people like Caitlyn Jenner. "I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. Thank you for your nuanced and compassionate assessment of the ...

I'm not trying to force your hand here, but rather demonstrate my earlier point of how it's basically a useless term if the requirements are different for everyone and we can't gleam any sort of solid criticism from it. It ends up being a useless snarl word, something used to immediately associate a...