• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    but it’s hard to imagine someone who thinks like that finding anything to like about Star Trek.

    For those folk, my guess is they cherry pick all the flaws and celebrate them, like the:

    • hyper masculinity of the Klingons
    • female suppression of the Ferengi
    • meritocracy of deception of the Romulans
    • female enslavement of the Orions
    • authoritarian control of the Founders
    • the brutality to the weak of the Cardassians
    • biological forced sexual intercourse of the Vulcans
    • stubborn and rude arguments of the Telorites
    • racism of the Andorians

    They take all the flaws introduced to each race and celebrate those as evidence of an ideal. These folks don’t realize that each race has a flaw in them to show their imperfection.

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      24 days ago

      I think it’s much simpler than that. They watch it for the pew pew space battles and ignore the messaging.

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          23 days ago

          For the most part they have a reasonably generous pacing of violence throughout many (if not most) episodes. The ones that don’t probably get panned by these people as ‘one of the boring ones’

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            23 days ago

            VOY was probably the one with the most pew-pew per season and it was the most watched series on Netflix, back before Paramount+.

          • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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            23 days ago

            Violence yes, starship combat not so much (in the TV shows anyway). I love watching the battles from the movies but yeah, that shit’s expensive yo!