From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By David Marcus   
   Published May 14, 2022   
      
   There is no more quintessential American story universe than Star Trek.   
      
   Since its creation in 1966 the franchise has had myriad iterations on   
   big screen and small, basically invented the sci-fi convention, and has   
   charmed audiences across every generation. But in two recent episodes,   
   writers crossed a line where no Star Trek has gone before. That is to   
   say, they got directly involved in partisan politics.   
      
   The first blatant example of electioneering, on Star Trek Discovery,   
   was a cameo by current and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate   
   Stacey Abrams as none other than the President of Federation of   
   Planets. The second was a weird plot twist in the pilot of new show,   
   Strange New Worlds in which the 2020 capitol riot is depicted and   
   blamed for starting a Second American Civil War and the destruction of   
   the planet. To put it more succinctly, Orange man bad.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/star-trek-starship-enterprise-de   
   ocrat-woke-david-marcus   
      
   Television is no longer about entertainment, it's all about diversity   
   and inclusion, and brainwashing the American people to believe America   
   exists as they show it in the commercials and TV shows.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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