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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about how when this episode aired, it was only 20ish years after WW2 ended.

This was recent history to everyone, and they were already making social commentary about it here, as well as the episode where they go to the literal Nazi planet.

9/11 is further in the past for us than WW2 was for them.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You take that back! 9/11 was last month. I'm not old.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck that I'm not going back to high school. You're old

[–] teft@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Where can I sign up for the Eugenics shots?

If I'm going to live in an authoritarian hellscape I'm doing it with genetic enhancements or not at all.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You've been genetically enhanced! ..... to work 18 hours a day in a dilithium mine!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can it be at this mine?

My luck I'll be sent to Rura Penthe.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I was expecting a face looming in the background tbqh

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

That sounds suspiciously like hormone therapy. Banned! /s

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just my luck I'm either in the Control group and get the placebo, or I get in super early trials and end up with the Kane Madness

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Time to change your username to Smike.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Given how things have been going for most of the western world I wonder:

[–] T156@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You say that, but Star Trek Earth 2025 - 2050 didn't exactly go great, even if they managed to sort things out in the end. It took them at least a whole century to really clean up their act.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, were due a third world war first.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I KNEW this was the mirror universe. I'm making a break for it you guys.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How can he walk through it, yet break it with his fist? I call shenanigans!

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's no good explanation for it. Luckily Skeletor is evil

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Holy shit, a Star Trek CCG card. That's a blast from the past.

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We are the Mirror Universe, not the Prime universe

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

We're in a third alternate universe where we get the Bell Riots, WWIII, nuclear apocalypse, authoritarian government, uncontrolled eugenics programs, no warp engine technology and no Vulcans or alien species coming to save us from ourselves ..... oh yeah but the Borg arrive too.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, the Borg arriving would be something of a mercy. I'd join.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 2 months ago

me_irl for sure lol

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

you will have no hopes, no personality

I knew half the women on Bumble were Borg!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's what Musk is trying for with his brain implants.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

But the Borg of this universe can't communicate with eachother. The queen can send orders and the Borg can send up responses or thoughts, but the queen largely ignores non-beneficial thoughts. But because of this, there is a queen each subqueen can send communications to and receive orders from. All the way up to the "CEO queen" who does the bidding of the actual collective "board of queens".

The more powerful queens have simply survived longer and assimilated more, and have spawned enough queens to destroy rival colonies.

Instead of being referred to as the "Borg Collective" they call themselves "Hardworking Individuals".

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As long as it's not the goddamn Kelvinverse.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Bell riots never happen in this timeline

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’ll happen. Just later. And worse.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Just like the eugenics wars.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People, it is with great sadness I come to the conclusion that we are the mirror universe.

If Vulcans landed, we would absolutely board their ship and take everything we can.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Kill them, board the ship, take everything we can, attempt to reverse engineer it, find tech that could make life instantly better for over 90% of the population to end world hunger and instantly cure countless diseases injuries and ailments...but instead they patent it and hold back 100 years of progress while some people get obscenely rich

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We ended up with the Alternative future, whoopsie.

Can somebody reverse the polarity or something already!? 😜

[–] Lydia_K@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago

Somebody needs to take Klingonstopher Lyod's bird of prey back in time and fix this already.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Ugh, fine. Here's my pain amplifier.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

This time, we'll make Spock's rebellion succeed

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure Roddenberry himself realized later how unrealistic his original vision was. Humans are always humans, from our beginning to our end, we will always have the same flaws and issues and prejudices, and no amount of technology is gonna fix that

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Funny, that's what the fascists tell themselves as self justification. They're just doing what the silent majority wants.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That is the exact premise of his next show, which he wrote notes for and his wife produced (edit: or something, she was heavily involved in taking it forward anyway).

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That show had a great first season. It also lasted five seasons.

Oh, man, did they fuck it up. The final season is partially about taking down space vampires, and partially about watching clips from previous seasons.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just when I thought I had heard and learned enough Star Trek to last me a few more years of watching content .... now I learn about this! Thanks for mentioning it!

This sounds amazing and it was made by Gene Roddenberry ... or at least originated by him.

Now I have to add this to my list of sci-fi to watch .... I need to live to 200 years of age to finish watching all this stuff I have listed. I really wouldn't mind O'Brien placing me in the transport buffer for a few hundred years if I was just allowed to watch TV the whole time.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I agree with Roddenberry

I also agree with your mom, you are cool 😎

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[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I stared at this so long I was late for my meeting

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