the more things change....

It's fascinating just how fucking clueless the knee-jeek reactionaries we have to put up with these days are. Their obsession with demonizing the concept of "woke" makes it impossible for them to see how fucking wrong they can be. 

Robert Picardo on Instagram: "It is interesting to note that ⁦@StarTrek⁩ #Voyager, so beloved in retrospect, was thought "woke" ("politically correct" was the term way back then) at its premiere.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTYOtA-EcpL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

I saw another post recently pointing out that the original Star Trek (TOS) was what would have been considered woke at the time as well. Let’s see… just for starters, the main cast included an asian man and a black woman in positions of responsibility. People of color were often featured in lead roles. Storylines often did what good science fiction does best, shining a light on contemporary issues “disguised” by the fantasy element of science fiction. (admittedly, some of these efforts were more ham-handed than one might wish… I’m looking at you Let That be Your Last Battlefield. But at least the effort was made.) And please, let us not forget the Vulcan concept of IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations)

So while I can’t stand the stupidity in demonizing “woke”… in this case, it’s even more stupid than ever. So to all of you berating the latest Star Trek offering as woke (and attacking actors for not meeting some nonsense acceptable ideal of body type, gender, race, etc.)… Please STFU. 

(It does fascinate, and puzzle me, that science fiction fans can be so narrow minded. One would think that the two wold be mutually exclusive… at least I think that. Clearly I’m mistaken.)