All Things Star Trek — Page 21

Sigh, because, and I hate to have to say this, as far as I see it, none of those words are meant to offend, even when they are used to describe the subjects you speak of.  "Mentally retarded," used in that fashion, for example, is a fairly recent invention, and was created to be a more sensitive, politically correct way of referring to people with mental handicaps.  An existing word, "retard," was used specifically because of its neutrality.  And it was chosen to replace its predecessors, such as moron and idiot, which were also originally chosen as clinical terms, because they had passed through the vernacular and picked up to be used as insults.  But as far as I see it, there is no way for that not to happen.  Yeah, "retarded" is now being seen as a derogatory term, precisely the opposite of what it was meant to be.  So it will be replaced with a new, even more sensitive word... which, in a few generations' time, will also be seen as incredibly insensitive and will be replaced and so on and so forth because it describes an unenviable position in which to be in life.

So bring me an example of someone using those terms to hurt other people, and I'll be right behind you saying that's insensitive and cruel.  But it makes me more than a little worried that we've become so fearful that anything that even sounds like something that can be used to be offensive should be encouraged to be banned from use.  Insert your own slippery slope argument here, but that's terrifyingly intolerant to me.  I'm terrified of this burgeoning world that looks more at the potential for incriminating word choice over actual context.  It reminds me of that hullabaloo from a few years ago over the word "niggardly" because it just happens to sound like a really bad word.

Not that crazy about the art style, but I love the idea of a group photo...

That is an awesome idea.  Personally, though, I would have put O'Brien with the DS9 cast instead of the TNG cast, but maybe that's just me.

EDIT:  Also, they included Leslie from TOS but skipped over Wesley Crusher entirely?  That's just cold.  And they have Ilia but not Decker?  And no Ezri Dax either?  Harumph.  I smell favoritism.

How could you possibly think excluding Wesley is a bad thing?

Yeah, those are curious omissions.

As for Ilia, she's depicted in her Phase II uniform, the TOS sequel series that almost was.

Which begs the question of where the heck is Lt. Xon? ;)

http://www.space.com/22189-star-trek-shuttlecraft-galileo-houston-museum.html

Isn't she a beauty?

What went through my mind the first time I saw Q in his judges robes. Some of you may be too young to get the reference. ;)

Is anybody Surprised trek 13 is well into development at Paramount and Orci and Kurtzmen are back as the writers.  Some peoples hopes for their firing have been dashed, oh well.

Rumors suggest the director is the Rupert Wyatt who directed rise of the planet of the apes.  And we will have a 2016 release date.

I hope this time its not a space revenge movie.  A ripoff of star wars or the wrath of khan. I don't want any more nods to nostalgia or retreads of classic episodes or movies.  Something new and fresh would be nice.  But not likely.

Its like every superman movie having to either be about Zod or Lex luthor.

 Generations is horrible it would have played fine as a tv episode, but it is neither a classic tos cast movie or TNG movie.  It also gave STID the idea of killing Kirk.  The way they killed off Kirk was stupid.  The way he is buried is also laughably bad.   Lets just leave his body on Veridian III covered with rocks. 

skyjedi2005 said:

Is anybody Surprised trek 13 is well into development at Paramount and Orci and Kurtzmen are back as the writers.  Some peoples hopes for their firing have been dashed, oh well.

Rumors suggest the director is the Rupert Wyatt who directed rise of the planet of the apes.  And we will have a 2016 release date.

 

I hope this time its not a space revenge movie.  A ripoff of star wars or the wrath of khan. I don't want any more nods to nostalgia or retreads of classic episodes or movies.  Something new and fresh would be nice.  But not likely.

Its like every superman movie having to either be about Zod or Lex luthor.

 Generations is horrible it would have played fine as a tv episode, but it is neither a classic tos cast movie or TNG movie.  It also gave STID the idea of killing Kirk.  The way they killed off Kirk was stupid.  The way he is buried is also laughably bad.   Lets just leave his body on Veridian III covered with rocks. 

It made his body easier to be found by the Borg though. ;)

Three years is a bit long to wait for another Trek movie these days. Four years for STID was way too much. They can only cheat the ages of the actors for so long.