Strange New Worlds: A Look at Ghosts of Illyria

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Random minority people don't accidentally vaporize Times Square.

That's what the gay blind black Jews want you to think.

When you get right down to it, the whole "superheroes are stand-ins for minority groups" arose because members of those groups not only felt obligated to defend their normal humanity in response to wider society's condemnation of them, but felt a need to balance by asserting their superiority. It's part of what makes minorities turn oppressive and tyrannical when they gain freedom from others' domination. And the wheel turns...

I don't think you have anything of value to contribute to discussions on race and bigotry, Mr "Black doctors are unrealistic because most black people aren't that smart".

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I admit I don't see any utopian Trek anymore and that makes me sad.

Deep Space Nine was fantastic but it should still be a utopia for everywhere BUT the frontier.

I'd say Lower Decks and Star Trek Prodigy are pretty utopian in their presentation of the federation.

[Riedquat]

I admit I don't see any utopian Trek anymore and that makes me sad.

Utopia's subjective - what we see of Earth isn't actually somewhere I'd like to live in, even though it's definitely free of a lot of problems I'd love to see the back of and can't image I ever will.

But point taken though, there's (usually) too much cynicism nowadays.

[Frustration]

I don't think you have anything of value to contribute to discussions on race and bigotry, Mr "Black doctors are unrealistic because most black people aren't that smart".

If you had accurately expressed the point I'd made... well, you wouldn't be Fuzzy Necromancer.

The vastly overinflated proportion of black doctors in media is unrealistic, period. That's reality, which is something you shouldn't worry your pretty little prejudices about.

[professor_iago]

"Down on the planet, Pike is pacing around like he's a tiger waiting for the birth of his first child."

Did you make this joke knowing that actor Anson Mount really was waiting for the birth of his first child?