• Flying SquidOPM
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    3 months ago

    That is not TOS. That is a person like Elon’s idea of TOS. I grew up on TOS before any other Star Trek existed. It helped shape my values- made me cherish ideas like inclusion and diversity and equality. It also helped teach me to talk things out rather than just come in guns blazing.

    Yes, there was a cowboy element to TOS considering Gene sold it to executives as “Wagon Train to the stars,” but it doesn’t have the typical morality of a Western. At all.

    In fact, if you want to talk specifically about indigenous Americans, the episode The Paradise Syndrome had a far more positive view of them than pretty much anything else on TV at the time.

    • @CeruleanRuin
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      183 months ago

      For real, that’s SNL Star Trek. The surface parody of the show based solely on a handful of Kirk’s more outrageous exploits. Real Trek fans know that Kirk was a total nerd who read classic literature and studied old Earth history for fun.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      103 months ago

      People (Elon) see what they want to see.

      Cowboy in this sense is not a good thing. It’s the do whatever the fuck I want to thing.

      cowboy /kou′boi″/

      A reckless person, such as a driver, pilot, or manager, who ignores potential risks.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        193 months ago

        Kirk was absolutely not about “I’ll do whatever I want to.” If anything, he was less like that than Picard. He was much more by-the-book even though he had a reputation as a maverick. But he was overall pretty strict about adhering to Starfleet regulations.

    • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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      13 months ago

      Bub, trek was revolutionary for its time, and in some parts still is. But it is going to age as we advance, and that’s not a bad thing - we want to progress to and past that