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Star Trek: Discovery is a story about why status quo is good by SPOILERS 02/12/2018, 1:14pm PST
It's a neoliberal garbage narrative about how it's good to manipulate aggressive insurgent cultures to create a top-down state by leveraging religious extremist and fundamentalist elements armed with weapons of mass destruction. The climax of the season arc is right out of a #Resistance porn video.

By the end, the klingon houses were launching suicide attacks at federation infrastructure which the white admiralty was unable to stop despite the federation's canonical ability to hold the klingons off with military power. Then black magic negro lady fixed everything by standing up for principles over pragmatism and declaring her identity was based on her values instead of her actions so she could get a pardon from the president of the federation for ending the war she started in one of the end scenes.

The main character has a name that runs contrary to gender norms, crosses institutional race boundaries because she's raised by vulcans on top of being a person of color, is stripped of rank, dishonored and jailed, and goes on a personal journey that culminates in being accepted back into polite society for fulfilling her duty despite being convicted of an unprecedented crime. She's Manning in space, from the future, where Manning could be black.

So anyway now all those gritty old cold war allegory TOS warships and space guns for fighting the space russians I mean space puerto ricans I mean klingons are worthless and earth is under threat from a disunited bunch of warring interstellar states that somehow apply the pressure of asymmetric insurgent warfare to the homeland of the Federation, despite that not being a thing in canon, so they pick a crazy religious fundamentalist group that the rest of the klingons laugh off and give them a huge bomb coded to their leader's biosigns.

Somehow, the federation would totally not do anything that involved any of this later if they needed to win another war with the Klingons because every starship secretly runs on idealism and if they stop practicing their weird values and redshirts stop dying in these dumb wars, the ships will literally stop flying. All those people that died during later conflicts with a united klingon empire totally didn't die in vain, the federation totally preserves life successfully and isn't just wank material and branding over a thin veneer of incompetence. Oh were you expecting fascism? Not in Discovery, sorry!

Then there's the huge bomb they put in mecca's big cavernous basement I mean inserted through a shrine into a volcanic cave system on the klingon homeworld and gave the detonator to a fundamentalist eminence grise nobody that is told that it's time for her to come out of the shadows. Her freakish white albino klingon lover is rendered down into a captive brain and inserted into the first arab actor in a star trek work in a mind-rape manchurian procedure because him being white-passing isn't enough, he has to be white on the inside, just like the worthy adversary has to be the white klingon that leads all the darkie klingons. Klingons with tans are just stupid assholes that fight each other, they can't be expected to hatch a masterplan on any level themselves.

Then after the fundamentalist unites space Iran and turns it into space Saudi Arabia they all pat themselves on the back and the war ends later that day and it's really cool how that all worked out, just like CIA-supported regimes have always worked out. Everybody gets awarded an ugly starfleet medal that looks like a shrunken Flava Flav clock and then they fly off to hang out with the Enterprise.

Who are these people who write a fake Chelsea Manning story about fake anti-ISIS wars being stopped by a fake Wahhabist getting a fake nuke to take over fake trashcanistan?
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Star Trek: Discovery or Lens Flare, engage! by deep illiom 05/18/2017, 6:32am PDT NEW
    What's the point of the show? by Rey Mysterio Jr. 05/21/2017, 3:05pm PDT NEW
        You made Voyager sound pretty good! by Now I'll have to watch it, I guess. 05/22/2017, 7:58am PDT NEW
            Q: "Help me commit suicide and I'll return your ship home." Janeway: "Nahhhh" by Delete series forever 05/22/2017, 8:17am PDT NEW
            By "crazy weird shit," you mean aliens with bumpy foreheads. by Mysterioso 05/22/2017, 8:18am PDT NEW
                yes, Voyager blew, nobody is disputing that NT by but that was the pitch 05/22/2017, 9:52am PDT NEW
                Subversive stuff like siding with space Palestine instead of space Jews NT by skip 05/25/2017, 3:36pm PDT NEW
                    Subversive stuff like stealing Babylon 5, then driving around in it blasting NT by bombastic French horn music. 05/25/2017, 4:45pm PDT NEW
                        Just like Discovery seems to have stolen Prelude to Axanar! by Mischief Maker 05/26/2017, 6:26am PDT NEW
        Ent: learning to hate Scott Bakula after kinda liking him in Quantum Leap NT by laudablepuss 05/22/2017, 3:59pm PDT NEW
            Enterprise: Pineapple Cake NT by Entropy Stew 05/26/2017, 7:31am PDT NEW
    I was a bit surprised to learn this one would have a South Asian crewman. by Not that there's anything wrong wit 08/24/2017, 10:35pm PDT NEW
    Star Trek: Discovery is a story about why status quo is good by SPOILERS 02/12/2018, 1:14pm PST NEW
        Stop saying neoliberal by Ban that word from this site 02/12/2018, 1:43pm PST NEW
            User was given a two week ban for mod impersonation and case building. NT by Bradley Svedka 02/12/2018, 3:05pm PST NEW
            I assume it's a typo and they meant "neocon." Don't get the Manning angle. by Mischief Maker 02/12/2018, 4:46pm PST NEW
                I meant neoliberal when I wrote neoliberal. Vote Clinton 2020! NT by SPOILERS 02/12/2018, 9:36pm PST NEW
                    But neoliberalism has nothing to do with foreign policy beyond maybe trade. by Mischief Maker 02/12/2018, 10:07pm PST NEW
                        Right, because the Clinton administration didn't change the neoliberal platform by and it's still stuck in the 1980s. 02/13/2018, 8:26am PST NEW
                            Yes, that was Clinton's mistake, being TOO "NEOLIBERAL" by ps neoliberalism = classical libera 02/13/2018, 6:48pm PST NEW
                                Clinton signed NAFTA in '93. Losing congress in '94 was on him/neoliberalism. NT by Mischief Maker 02/13/2018, 9:22pm PST NEW
                                    The Democratic congress was already out the door, the writing was on the wall. by DURRRR NAFTA 02/13/2018, 9:27pm PST NEW
                                        Well why don't you explain what the writing on the wall was to this retard? NT by Mischief Maker 02/13/2018, 9:44pm PST NEW
                                            Neee oh liberrruuhlllaizm or as non-Chapos call it, the Reagan administration NT by DURRRR NAFTA 02/13/2018, 10:02pm PST NEW
                                                I want you to entertain the idea that none of this is politics. NT by Dr. Gargola 02/14/2018, 3:58am PST NEW
                                This right here is where the thread went full retard NT by full retard fairy 02/16/2018, 10:39am PST NEW
    I liked it well enough. SPOILERS. by Malaysian Nerve Pinch Resistance 03/08/2018, 1:47pm PST NEW
        Next time just email me your questions. by Anthony Rapp 03/08/2018, 6:30pm PST NEW
        Short Treks are the worst thing I've ever seen. And I watched all of Enterprise! by Malaysian Nerve Pinch Resistance 01/08/2019, 10:08am PST NEW
            you mean the one about Saru? by Rey Mysterio Jr. 01/08/2019, 1:34pm PST NEW
                Star Trek Discovery is garbage by RetroRomper 01/08/2019, 3:32pm PST NEW
                    I'm not sure they ever got above okay-ish, but that Saru one was a little death. by Malaysian Nerve Pinch Resistance 01/08/2019, 4:18pm PST NEW
                He's spreading hope and stealing fire from the gods! Let's make him our butler. by Malaysian Nerve Pinch Resistance 01/08/2019, 4:02pm PST NEW
 
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