I mean... I'm talking late in 7th grade is when the clock started to move for me - but... I was a Californian. All the things you think are wrong for society - start in my native state. The pressure to grow up early there is huge. It is part of why we moved to Ohio to raise or own kid. But - that was effed up in its own unique way. 

You just can't win. 

Thu Mar 05 2026 17:52:25 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Is everyone ready for Starfleet Academy hahahahahalolololol

 Girls were essentially off-limits until college.

LOL. Citadel... where talking on topic is almost always off topic. 

I'm so biased and resistant to the woke left - I just can't give something like Starfleet Academy a chance. I'll never watch it. 

Tue Mar 17 2026 16:50:37 UTC from LoanShark

I know it's off topic, but ..."

There is a petition now to Batgirl it - which basically means never show it and write it off as a loss - take the tax credit because it failed so hard. 

It isn't Star Trek. Disney Star Wars isn't Star Wars. They're fan fiction written by LGBT+/Feminist/Woke activists. Nothing fits into the canon of the rest of the franchise. It isn't just "not for us," it isn't even the same universe. It is so fundamentally different it doesn't fit - so it isn't homophobic or transphobic or xenophobic to reject it. That isn't the actual problem. The problem is the continuity is so wrong - it just doesn't fit logically with the actual canon of the universe. 

Stop writing fan fiction based on your own fetishes, perversions, kinks and desires - and write "in-universe" fiction and then go ahead and include your agenda for diversity within that framework - and I'm willing to bet 100:1 - the fanbase will accept it - as long as it fits. A Trans Klingon that wears a dress isn't going to survive in Klingon culture - they'll throw him (her) off the roof. It isn't part of the canon of their culture - and the Federation is NEVER going to make them so progressive they change that in their culture. Can there be a trans Klingon that wears a dress? Sure. But he isn't going to be happily accepted and celebrated in Federation culture. Ever. That guy is going to be persecuted. Write him like that - and it might actually be interesting. 

Also, the Captain shouldn't sprawl out on her Captain's seat like an insolent angsty teen girl. Just stop being stupid and transparent. 

Wed Mar 25 2026 22:24:47 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

You're more patient than I am. I've watched most of it, ever since TOS was in reruns when I was a kid. I didn't even make it through a single episode.

Didn't they basically tell everyone that this show isn't for Star Trek fans, but rather for people they hoped would become fans?

In any case, it's already over. Season 2 is wrapping up in post, so they'll air it, but word has just gone out that it has been canceled and they will not be ordering a season 3.

I think there is this fixation in Hollywood with being "subversive," and therefore doing whatever is seen as the exact OPPOSITE of what is expected decorum. 

The problem is, when every piece of writing does this at every opportunity, it is no longer subversive - it is *expected*. The actual subversive thing would be to have straight people, white men in positions in authority roles, decisive, tough-as-nails decisions - a willingness to resort to justified violence - right and wrong being black and white and clearly defined. Fiction like that would be completely unexpected into today's media environment. Getting the opposite of that at EVERY turn - is just the status quo. 

Mon Mar 30 2026 18:03:49 UTC from LoanShark

100%.

That was just weird.

It's hard to be "subversive" when your part of the culture has become "The Man".

They don't realize that, though - do they. They still imagine this world where old white Republican men run all the companies and stiff Clark Griswald for his holiday bonus so he can't put his pool in. 

Sat May 09 2026 11:54:36 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

It's hard to be "subversive" when your part of the culture has become "The Man".

Europe is burning and boiling over - the citizens are completely done. A few years ago I was predicting a US Civil war - but I think what we're facing is a new world war - a new Crusades. A new global Holy War. The Irish and Scots and Brits and Northern Europeans and French are fed up - I don't seem them just repelling the Islamic invasion of Europe - I have a feeling they're going to decide to march all the way to Mecca and tear it down for good. I think it won't take much to involve the US - if England falls to the Islamic caliphate - which a lot of American thinktanks are afraid of - the West cannot allow the Caliphate to control a European nuclear power - the US will invade and occupy. We're going to get way more than we bargained for. It is about to get messy. 

Thu Jun 18 2026 18:23:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

The people in leadership know they're lying and they don't care. As long as they own the media they can keep pushing the narrative that every dollar in Elon's account was stolen directly out of the wallets of poor black muslim lesbians.

I know i have said it before, so sorry for being repetitive, but its the natural cycle of civilization. We are on the downswing. I had hoped id be gone by now. Really didn't want to get to ride during the collapse. it wont be pretty.

That said, i think this will be longer than previous cycles, as the elite have far more control than in the past ( both physically and programming of the serfs ). But, it wont stop it.

Fri Jul 03 2026 00:31:01 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

but I think what we're facing is a new world war 

Europe is burning and boiling over - the citizens are completely done. A few years ago I was predicting a US Civil war - but I think what we're facing is a new world war - a new Crusades. A new global Holy War. The Irish and Scots and Brits and Northern Europeans and French are fed up - I don't seem them just repelling the Islamic invasion of Europe - I have a feeling they're going to decide to march all the way to Mecca and tear it down for good. 

The problem with the Crusades is that we stopped having them.

But ... how did we drift to here from star trek?

We must have beamed down to.. 

Wed Jul 08 2026 08:52:10 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

 

But ... how did we drift to here from star trek?