Anon who is obviously me: hey do you think star trek as a whole has reached a point at which we are able to detach it from it’s creators and their personal ideals and instead treat it as a separate entity from them in order to preserve the social and political lessons it taught and maintain its image as a reliable moral media with important philosophical meaning without damaging those morals by relating them heavily to a person or people who may have gone against the preached values of the show in spite of their connection to the production of said show?
Me responding: yes
Me as another anon: do you also thinks it’s important to regularly examine the context of the show in terms of its creators so as not to erase the damage they’ve caused and to fully acknowledge that many of the people who have had a hand in the creation of the show may have acted against the morals they preached and to maintain a critical eye of the ways in which we as a society have evolved past certain ideals which at the time of the shows creation were ahead of their time and thus accept that while the show is a valuable basis on which to compare moral standing and values in the present day it is also severely outdated and conceived by people who have regrettably worked against the morals of their creation and thereby made little significant change in the lives of those around them due to a lack of equal respect and care for those who made the show possible and actively wanted to make a difference in spite of their surroundings and thereby as the consumer we claim ownership for the faults of the franchise without condoning it or being doomed to repeat it?
do you ever see someone’s comment about a film/tv show you watch or a book you’ve read and wonder if maybe we all truly live in different realities and the internet is the only commonly shared space which doesn’t change across universes, because it isn’t fucking possible to draw such dumbass conclusions about a thing unless we’ve seen/read different versions of it
concept: i look outside. i’m in a domed city. the dome acts as an eruv, i can carry whatever i want on shabbos. man made climate change is making the planet livable instead of unlivable. earth is weeks travel away. i have a dog. i make a living doing paintings of the local plants and selling them to tourists from other planets. i go hiking with a breath mask outside the dome at night to look at stars, stars different from earth’s stars. from here i can see three other human settled planets. a starfleet ship lands. i argue talmud with the vulcan crewmembers. they stay for shabbos dinner. i get gay married to one of them. he finds my botanical watercolors stunningly logical. we travel the stars together
Leaving tungle.hell like rats on the Titanic 