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[โ€“] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Star Trek isn't woke enough these days.

TNG had Picard give a speech to a person from the past about how the Federation was able to accomplish so much only because society stopped being oriented around the accumulation of wealth.

Discovery had a character praise Elon Musk for being a pioneer.

To be fair to Discovery I think that was written before Musk had completely (or at least publicly) gone off the deep end, but even at the time I thought it was extremely stupid to have a character praise an early 21st century oligarch in the same sentence that they mention actual inventors and engineers.

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

That Musk-praise Discovery bit was said by someone from the mirror universe.

So it checks out.