I liked the one where their mirror universe crew was all aggressive and mutiny-ish and you could tell they were bad guys because the guys had no sleeves and the women wore thigh high boots and everyone knows the rough customers have no use for sleeves and need their boots extra high.
I also liked that episode where the “Yanks” and “Coms” turned out to be Americans and Communists and don’t you people know all this fighting will just lead to a bad end???
H&I TV https://www.handitv.com runs all of the old Star Trek shows: TOS, Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and Enterprise on free OTA TV; most cable providers carry it as well.
I've not yet caught any of the Starfleet Academy series, but Discovery was (IMO) the best of the new generation of the movies and series, followed closely by Strange New Worlds.
I am fully on board with giving Stephen Miller the "A Clockwork Orange" treatment of force feeding all the season of 'Discovery'.
The usual suspects regularly howl that the resurrected Doctor Who has gone woke.
Unlike back in the good old days.
From '63 to '89 whenever the writers couldn't come up with something fresh, they'd trot out a seemingly heartless plutocrat, ready to do some dirty deal with the space aliens against his fellow humans. Then the Doctor would lecture everyone about survival of the fittest and the benefits of unencumbered free enterprise.
I fondly remember how Patric Troughton's Doctor patiently explained to Jamie how the English Redcoats civilized the savage Scotsmen.
Very well considered article. Thank you. I wonder how much my watching the Star Trek original series affected my sensibilities. When blended with books I read I now realize that I was very fortunate to have had the opportunities I had .
Good column. I've seen the two new Starfleet Academy episodes plus the vast majority of the other Star Trek series. Even if we settle our differences within our society we're always are war outside of it. While I (hope to) believe MAGA has more in common with us than differences, as my cross country trips have shown, the propagandized differences are overwhelming the common ground.
Someone should strap Miller in, tape open his eyes, and make him watch all five seasons of Star Trek Discovery, quite possibly the wokest tv show and definitely the wokest Star Trek, ever. We wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore 🤯.
Captain Picard was, on the surface, more "civilized" and diplomatic than Captain Kirk, but you learn that he was a hellion in Starfleet Academy who had to learn the hard way to keep his aggressive impulses under control and you would still see those aggressive tendencies break through or linger just under the surface when he was pushed.
For all of his reputation for daring and aggressiveness, Kirk, I think, was the more naturally calm captain of the two. I mean, Hell, Khan nearly killed him and his crew and stole the Enterprise and by the end of the episode, he's setting him up on what he thinks is a potential great planet for the tyrant and his minions and smiling about it.
I've watched the first 2 episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and it is every bit as "woke" as the original Star Trek series ever was. There will be plenty of ammunition in it for the radical right to denounce as namby-pamby ultraliberalism. It's actually kind of amazing that it got greenlit, given the current political climate.
Paul Giamatti chews the scenery as a classic villain with a sense of humor, and Holly Hunter is smart, wily, and thoughtful as the new Captain Kirk. Right off the bat she has reprised the words, "to go boldly where no man has gone before", and sets the tone of imagination, exploration, and adventure with a strong dose of humanity. So far, so good!
When you serve the unreconstructed—as Herr Miller does—you can just say whatever you like about popular media. Just whatever wins the argument for the moment. And of course it's every bit expected from such a foul. miserable shell of a human being.
I hadn't seen as much of Star Trek TOS, and that is a LOT you have taught me. I even remember different surprisingly progressive for the 1960s things! And one of the things people mentioned a lot was the interracial kiss involving Uhura, which was HUGE back then. That was a kind of thing that was controversial for another thirty years even.
Boy you’re good at this SER. I do remember the OG Star Trek but haven’t seen these episodes when I first watched them at age 7. I do remember the message though.
And what the hell is with this silly misremembering of “nostalgia”, when men were men and women were women and apparently now the want Black people to go back to “knowing their place and not get uppidity”? It was not as great a time as they realize and half of them weren’t even alive then.
I see so many parallels to previous bad points in history and how the US seems hellbent on forgetting about it and doing another, albeit inept, version.
I might try watching some of the 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑘: 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 again. We watched it when it first aired, because my brother liked it and we had only one TV. Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to it then, but I do remember one episode with Apollo, or rather, an actor playing Apollo, and another episode with Joan Collins, which was sad, because she died, it must have been a time travelling episode, because it had something to do with the Depression and WWII. I was only 5 - 7 when the show first aired, and didn't pay much attention to it, so memories are sketchy.
I love your articles where I can relate to everything. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑘: 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 has been a mainstay in my life since the '60s and "Mirror, Mirror" has been one of my favorite episodes. It's a shame that my parents, who were young and optimistic back then and loved that show, have grown into their old age as bitter, bigoted, Fox News-addicted trumpers who would align more with Stephen Miller now than any of the societal lessons from Star Trek.
I was always more of a Star Wars person but I love the OG Star Trek. I got the box set of Next Generation for Xmas and I'm going through that right now. The very first episode has a man in a short dress walking around on a base. In 1987! Most of the women onboard are wearing pants right now but I think Troi later switches to a dress? I had watched them randomly as they aired so a lot of it is new to me. I did not know Q was in it from the beginning. But it's great. In terms of where I'd like to see humanity go, you can't aim higher than the Federation. Also: one of my favorite stories with a similar theme is Dr. Seuss's Star Belly Sneetches.
Miller probably fantasizes about Yeoman Rand and is still pissed that Lt. Uhura exists. I guess he has blanked out Shatner's kiss with Uhura and, if he remembers the incident at all, agrees with those racist scolds who thought the kiss went too far.
I liked the one where their mirror universe crew was all aggressive and mutiny-ish and you could tell they were bad guys because the guys had no sleeves and the women wore thigh high boots and everyone knows the rough customers have no use for sleeves and need their boots extra high.
I also liked that episode where the “Yanks” and “Coms” turned out to be Americans and Communists and don’t you people know all this fighting will just lead to a bad end???
H&I TV https://www.handitv.com runs all of the old Star Trek shows: TOS, Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and Enterprise on free OTA TV; most cable providers carry it as well.
I've not yet caught any of the Starfleet Academy series, but Discovery was (IMO) the best of the new generation of the movies and series, followed closely by Strange New Worlds.
I am fully on board with giving Stephen Miller the "A Clockwork Orange" treatment of force feeding all the season of 'Discovery'.
The usual suspects regularly howl that the resurrected Doctor Who has gone woke.
Unlike back in the good old days.
From '63 to '89 whenever the writers couldn't come up with something fresh, they'd trot out a seemingly heartless plutocrat, ready to do some dirty deal with the space aliens against his fellow humans. Then the Doctor would lecture everyone about survival of the fittest and the benefits of unencumbered free enterprise.
I fondly remember how Patric Troughton's Doctor patiently explained to Jamie how the English Redcoats civilized the savage Scotsmen.
Very well considered article. Thank you. I wonder how much my watching the Star Trek original series affected my sensibilities. When blended with books I read I now realize that I was very fortunate to have had the opportunities I had .
Good column. I've seen the two new Starfleet Academy episodes plus the vast majority of the other Star Trek series. Even if we settle our differences within our society we're always are war outside of it. While I (hope to) believe MAGA has more in common with us than differences, as my cross country trips have shown, the propagandized differences are overwhelming the common ground.
Someone should strap Miller in, tape open his eyes, and make him watch all five seasons of Star Trek Discovery, quite possibly the wokest tv show and definitely the wokest Star Trek, ever. We wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore 🤯.
“Stephen Miller remains an unabashed, unrepentant racist who is also incredibly stupid.”
Department of Redundancy Dept.
Captain Picard was, on the surface, more "civilized" and diplomatic than Captain Kirk, but you learn that he was a hellion in Starfleet Academy who had to learn the hard way to keep his aggressive impulses under control and you would still see those aggressive tendencies break through or linger just under the surface when he was pushed.
For all of his reputation for daring and aggressiveness, Kirk, I think, was the more naturally calm captain of the two. I mean, Hell, Khan nearly killed him and his crew and stole the Enterprise and by the end of the episode, he's setting him up on what he thinks is a potential great planet for the tyrant and his minions and smiling about it.
I've watched the first 2 episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and it is every bit as "woke" as the original Star Trek series ever was. There will be plenty of ammunition in it for the radical right to denounce as namby-pamby ultraliberalism. It's actually kind of amazing that it got greenlit, given the current political climate.
Paul Giamatti chews the scenery as a classic villain with a sense of humor, and Holly Hunter is smart, wily, and thoughtful as the new Captain Kirk. Right off the bat she has reprised the words, "to go boldly where no man has gone before", and sets the tone of imagination, exploration, and adventure with a strong dose of humanity. So far, so good!
When you serve the unreconstructed—as Herr Miller does—you can just say whatever you like about popular media. Just whatever wins the argument for the moment. And of course it's every bit expected from such a foul. miserable shell of a human being.
I hadn't seen as much of Star Trek TOS, and that is a LOT you have taught me. I even remember different surprisingly progressive for the 1960s things! And one of the things people mentioned a lot was the interracial kiss involving Uhura, which was HUGE back then. That was a kind of thing that was controversial for another thirty years even.
Boy you’re good at this SER. I do remember the OG Star Trek but haven’t seen these episodes when I first watched them at age 7. I do remember the message though.
And what the hell is with this silly misremembering of “nostalgia”, when men were men and women were women and apparently now the want Black people to go back to “knowing their place and not get uppidity”? It was not as great a time as they realize and half of them weren’t even alive then.
I see so many parallels to previous bad points in history and how the US seems hellbent on forgetting about it and doing another, albeit inept, version.
Thanks!
I might try watching some of the 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑘: 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 again. We watched it when it first aired, because my brother liked it and we had only one TV. Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to it then, but I do remember one episode with Apollo, or rather, an actor playing Apollo, and another episode with Joan Collins, which was sad, because she died, it must have been a time travelling episode, because it had something to do with the Depression and WWII. I was only 5 - 7 when the show first aired, and didn't pay much attention to it, so memories are sketchy.
I love your articles where I can relate to everything. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑘: 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 has been a mainstay in my life since the '60s and "Mirror, Mirror" has been one of my favorite episodes. It's a shame that my parents, who were young and optimistic back then and loved that show, have grown into their old age as bitter, bigoted, Fox News-addicted trumpers who would align more with Stephen Miller now than any of the societal lessons from Star Trek.
"Mirror, Mirror" indeed...
I was always more of a Star Wars person but I love the OG Star Trek. I got the box set of Next Generation for Xmas and I'm going through that right now. The very first episode has a man in a short dress walking around on a base. In 1987! Most of the women onboard are wearing pants right now but I think Troi later switches to a dress? I had watched them randomly as they aired so a lot of it is new to me. I did not know Q was in it from the beginning. But it's great. In terms of where I'd like to see humanity go, you can't aim higher than the Federation. Also: one of my favorite stories with a similar theme is Dr. Seuss's Star Belly Sneetches.
Miller probably fantasizes about Yeoman Rand and is still pissed that Lt. Uhura exists. I guess he has blanked out Shatner's kiss with Uhura and, if he remembers the incident at all, agrees with those racist scolds who thought the kiss went too far.