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   From: j.clarke.873638@gmail.com   
      
   In article <1gvjcetu3aq2w$.dlg@starfist.thorsfinni>, starfist@gmail.invalid   
   says...   
   >   
   > On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:23:18 -0400, Obveeus wrote:   
   >   
   > > Using a phaser that looks closer to STAR TREK (The Original Series)   
   > > rather than the phaser from the scrapped pilot stuff in The Cage episode   
   > > isn't likely to offend many people beyond the few here who are just   
   > > going to insist on being offended by anything/everything with the new   
   > > series.  The new show may suck royally and it may be entirely irrelevant   
   > > since few people will be watching anyway, but people need to find better   
   > > things to gripe about.   
   >   
   > Personally, I couldn't care less that the visual effects are   
   > different.  I am perfectly fine with that.  It doesn't bother me at   
   > all if the bridge looks more advanced or the Klingons look a little   
   > different.  Don't care.   
   >   
   > My complaint (probably too strong a word, it's just a show) is that   
   > the people making the show have made a concerted effort to make big   
   > social justice BS a huge issue for it, to the point of re-writing   
   > canonical history of the Trek universe to do it, and to make this   
   > totally unrealistic view of no straight white males in sight 10 years   
   > before Kirk.  That's a nonstarter for good fiction especially in an   
   > established universe.  They have an agenda to push.  There were some   
   > horrible agenda EPISODES of other Trek, like The Outcast, where they   
   > basically tell us that Riker was attracted to someone with an   
   > underdeveloped penis and you should be happy about that, but that was   
   > one (awful) episode.  These guys are going all in on in-your-face   
   > snowflake-revolution-in-space, and screw your Trek timeline, we are   
   > going to shove all of our SJW wet dreams into this show because it's   
   > better than what was already there.   
      
   I don't know if you've noticed but Abrams et al are _mocking_ Trek.  And   
   apparently one of the things they're mocking is the social justice aspects.   
      
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