I watched everything from ToS, TNG, DS9, and ENT several years ago. Most of it I watched without noticing or being affected by a lot of the propaganda. DS9 and ENT were obviously worse, but I still found them mostly entertaining.
None of it converted me into a nigger loving jew worshiping faggot. I knew about its ties to the socialism, and I recognized it as pure fiction. Maybe it affected me on some deep subconscious level but after being on voat for years, I'm sure all of that programming has been earsed.
I wonder if I could still watch the content now that my eyes have been opened.
I did not watch Voyager, because even other trek fans disliked it or noticed obvious political ideology within it.
Voyager is okay, except for the glaring problem of Janeway’s personality changing from episode to episode, based on what the writers need her to do for the plot. One of my co-workers calls it “a ship of Mary Sues” and I think that’s fairly accurate.
I remember watching it with my dad during its first run, and asking him why Seven of Nine was on the show at all. “Boobs” he told me. I think that’s accurate too.
Exactly right.
I think it would sting a lot more, I actually raged watching DS9 a few times, my watch through coincided with the burn, loot, murder riots from last year and i had to shut that shit off a few times when they did some of their fake and gay jim crow throwback episodes.
Voyager is far weaker in the writing department,they began leaning into the technobabble harder than season 1 of TNG but it has evened out a bit in season 4 it feels like the writing is on par with TNG and DS9. I dislike the imposed diversity of the crew though, a black vulcan, a make believe indian, because star trek hasn't fucked up its depiction of indians enough apparently, a chinese korean guy who acts chinese for some reason even though his character is from south carolina, a "fiery latino" trope character playing a half breed klingon, i think people would call that racist type casting on two differet levels these days and a woman captain written like a man except when they shoehorn motherly instincts or head master if a girls prep school stories in to keep her a "believable female role model"
The highest ranking white male on the ship is a hologram, the second is a criminal, and if you recall the first episode aside from the captain and tuvok all the officers were evil straight white men.
I can't give it a ringing endorsement from the halfway point but it isn't worse than any shit they have crapped out on CBS in the last 10 years.
I did not watch Voyager, because even other trek fans disliked it or noticed obvious political ideology within it.
Voyager isn't bad per se, despite not having a Strong White Male lead at all. There is a White Male in the main cast, but he kinda starts off as "John McCain, if John McCain were actually a good pilot" and grows as the show goes.
The problem is that there are "Two Voyagers", since the show underwent a soft reboot once Seven of Nine was added, and in order to add her they came up with a lolwut explanation to write out her predecessor. It might be better to just start with the seasons featuring Seven of Nine.
DS9 was pretty good as it, despite being woke, satirized Hillary Clinton savagely. I'm still surprised that happened, as Hillary was basically a goddess to schifflibs back then, and the writers of DS9 claim that they were schifflibs back then.
VOY might be the most woke on a technicality as actress Jeri Ryan is regarded as being the person who started Barack 0bama's political career in national politics.
DS9 was such a soap opera. All those fucking relationships. OBrian and Keiko, Bashir and Dax, Dax and Worf, OBrian and Kira, Kira and the Bajoran pope, Kira and Gul Ducat, Kira and Odo, Sisko and that black chick, Rom and the dabo girl. Bashir and anything that moved.
Every fucking episode had some sort of relationship garbage in it. People fucking in holosuites. Fucking disgusting.
I mean Ive seen every episode 10 times, but still, I always think of it a “trashy trek”, its so tawdry.
The relationships were pretty based though?
Bashir and Dax: beta male nice guys don't get the girl
Dax and Worf: feminism in the Federation military got a man killed and helped The Dominion
Kira and Gul Ducat: getting obsessed with a jewess is your undoing
Rom and the Dabo Girl: women will take you for a ride if you don't maintain frame
O'Brien and Keiko: White man + Asian waifu can be a loveless marriage; also career women make horrible wives/mothers
Sisko & the Ghost: your ideal woman probably doesn't exist
Sisko & the Maquis Chick: when a woman comes on to you and you're a rich and powerful guy, better check her motivations
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