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StAr tReK is TOO DIVERSE, tHatS wHy I lIkE Babylon 5!
[insert heavy breathing and unchecked drooling]
she probably cheered for the bajor occupation or the government during the bell riots
Eugenics program? So this Khan guy is a good guy?
Babylon 5 is too liberal, that's why I like Farscape
Farscape isn't horny enough. That's why I like LEXX
Lexx isn't british enough, that's why i watch red dwarf.
Red Dwarf isn't wet enough, that's why I watch SeaQuest DSV
Red Dwarf doesn't have enough main cast members die, that's why I prefer Blake's 7.
Blake's 7 doesn't have enough weird courtroom scenes at the end of the series, that's why I prefer The Prisoner
Farscape is cool. Star Trek is cool. Star Wars is okay too I guess; not hating, I just don't like them as much as the rest of the world seems to.
Obviously. Because Firefly is the superior show, right?
I mean Firefly is ok, but the original Battlestar Galactica is still supreme.
I believe you are all wrong. Commando Cody is the most excellent science fiction program ever made.
severe lack of stargate in this thread
ronon dex > aquaman
That man deserve no respect from me since he turned Duncan Idaho into a fucking fratboy (that is, the only part he's ever played everywhere).
Commando Cody? Bah. The 1935 film The Transatlantic Tunnel is the height of science fiction on film.
I loved the original BG!! But man it didn't age well :(
Disney did accidentally turn the two part story arc of space liberals restoring the status quo after it fell to space fascism into a three part warning that liberalism will always fall to fascism by allowing it to thrive in the first place by refusing to address wealth inequality and outright complacency in spite of all the warnings in the galaxy so that's fun.
Farscape is too queer, that's why i like Lexx
Hey, Babylon 5 gave us ~~Bester~~ Mirror Chekov.
Talk to me about Babylon 5. What all is woke in it. Never watched it so I don’t know.
It has an alien species where the religious group has quotes that are directly from Carl Sagan (and they're have more of a philosophy than a religion, at least in most ways). It generally treats religion with more respect than Roddenberry did, in a "all religion has some good parts to it, but extremism is a problem" kind of way.
One of its major plot arcs is all about how democracies fall into fascism. I thought it was a bit heavy handed at the time, but now it feels too real.
Skirts around a pair of characters in a lesbian relationship, but like most shows at the time, it doesn't come right out and say it. They 100% banged one night, though.
It's also military science fiction. That always seems to invite right wingers who love the asthetic but ignore the themes. Same problem with Star Trek and Star Wars.
Well let's see, there's an episode with a dockworker's strike, in which a "negotiator" is sent in who's position is basically "I'll pretend to ask nicely but the only tactic I have is this in-universe law that says I can use the military to force you back to work." The letter of that in-universe law (the "Rush Act") is "The local military commander can break strikes by any means he deems necessary." And Commander Sinclair decides to pay the dockworkers what they demand out of the military budget of the station. So the union ultimately wins.
There's several times when some character, often a human but sometimes an alien, walks up to some other kind of alien and says "We don't want you FREAKS coming in and stealing our JOBS!" and they're always depicted as obviously in the wrong. Basically in the script it says "A Republican happens, and gets dealt with."
There's a whole episode with a religious exchange, all the various aliens are invited to demonstrate their planet's "dominant religion." When it's the human's turn, Sinclair takes the alien crew down a hallway with a long line of various different kinds of priests, ministers, monks, etc. The first guy in line is an atheist. The point being "Earth is diverse as fuck, yo."
The show just barely glances off a lesbian relationship, and the show's attitude says "What? You didn't have a problem with the five other romantic couples we've seen so far, what's your problem with this one?"
Oh, then there's the whole major plot of a socially conservative president sliding Earth's entire government into totalitarianism with the backing of a hostile alien race thing.
Haven't watched it in years myself, but unless you can define "woke" I'm not going to make any assumptions.
"Woke" has come to mean "Not completely adhering to Republican culture war dogma."
Even that doesn't really define it.
Just making sure here, you want me to rigorously define the political position and identity of platformless reactionaries?
Not at all, in fact I'd rather "woke" be defined by what they really mean - feminism, inclusivity, equality, etc. Let's make them say what they actually mean without hiding behind a nebulous term like "woke".