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Rich Evan Explains why Jar Jar Abrams/Kurtzman Trek Sucks. For Simpletons who dont get it.


https://youtu.be/hfQdf93e63I?t=1142

Mike : I get what they're doing they're doing some modern-day politics

Rich : It also destroys Star Trek

Mike : it destroys that the core ideas of the Federation and I think like Patrick's tour was like using the Starfleet or the Federation that that we see in Star Trek Picard is very different from the one from the next generation it's now evil and okay you're talking about America.

Rich: Star Trek has always done political analogies. but they have done it in a way where you still had your optimistic future. I always, I always loved that optimistic future about Star Trek. My favorite fucking moment in Star Trek is the Abraham Lincoln space episode, as corny as that is. But you have Abraham Lincoln other bridge the enterprise and he uses an outdated offensive term to uhura and faked space Lincoln being a kind man looks to her and apologizes. Uhura is utterly confused by this for a moment and then she realizes what happened and she laughs and it's a beautiful fucking moment. Because stats in the Federation, humanity, is so good in the future, racism is so dead, she doesn't even know to be offended it's such a thing of the past that it's completely forgotten about, it's this wonderful bright vision of a humanity, that made it it's something we can look forward to it, fuck it's inspiring to me and now we're coming along and they're a bunch of fuckin xenophobes and racist, fuck that, stop shitting on Star Trek.

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It's always refreshing to listen to Mike and Rich discuss Star Trek because it seems like they're the only ones who understand what makes it special in the first place. A friend who fancies himself a Trek fan seems to fixate on the alien creature designs, laser gun and space battles makes me long for a more traditional version of the series.

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