I must be forgetting a scene…

Oh yeah, I’ve seen enough stuff fall off trucks that I’m convinced it’s good to do anyway. Also yeah, tanning beds are one of the more insane things that we’ve come up with as a species.

It’s perfect. Let’s play this for over 1500 years.

Similarly, I’ve known nurses who complain about reading/writing documentation on wounds in which pus is present.

Hmm… could a substantial percentage of the population develop a fetish for curing cancer during our lifetime? That would be awesome.

I’m going to say yes. Every teenager is an alien.

It seems like such a creative way to do social commentary. We get to see our present failings in aliens, and then contrast it with how the crew (future humanity) carries themselves. Sometimes it’s very clunky and heavy handed (like that TOS episode with the half-white/half-black aliens), but it’s still good. My favorites are every time Picard monologues about their values to an alien race in TNG.

Even if you already share the values, it’s fascinating to hear them laid out so clearly.

The Star Trek community has been going strong for nearly 60 years for a reason - Star Trek rocks.

When it started in the 60s (and continued especially strong with TNG in the 80s), it was unique in depicting a hopeful look at how things could be rather than a reflection of how things are, differing from how most shows do social commentary. It’s refreshing.

Star Trek is attractive to people who want to see a world where people work together toward great things in a post-scarcity utopia, with current day conversations of race, nationality, sex, gender, etc. being so far in the rear-view mirror that they’re non-issues. Plus cool technology. I think that appeals to the Lemmy crowd.

Apparently it’s both, according to some other comments. I learned something today, And now you have to too.

I’d love to see this much color everywhere again