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Star Trek: 50 Years of Humanism
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Lest anyone has forgotten, here's a video to remind us all that what is best about Star Trek has always been about what was best inside all of *us*.
Please give it a watch.
http://youtu.be/Qe7axuTmoUg
Please give it a watch.
http://youtu.be/Qe7axuTmoUg
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But i dont wanna :P
Try this one instead then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
But but ....its to hard to click the link
( Im just randomley whining just for kicks lol )
The "gist" of the video I linked...Star Trek "We come in peace...shoot to kill, shoot to kill."
i found a better vid i was never into claymation
STAR TREKKIN
This is correct. Unfortunate, but correct.
It is about taking a message, a message of inspiration, hope, and transcending the human condition.
Then putting a trademark on that message and licensing it to others to get insanely rich.
Do you want to know just how close humanity is to achieving the greatness portrayed in Star Trek? How the savagery of humanity is close to be sloughed off like necrotic skin? Do people want to see the progress made in humanity's name thanks to the science fiction franchise spawned by Gene Roddenberry?
Look on the STO forums. Go into most any thread. Go watch how people behave on Smirk's livestreams. Go watch ESD Zone chat. Go to 4chan's area of STO. Go to Reddit's area of STO. Read the tweets left by fans of Star Trek fans. Look at the common communication made between players, and any defiance of that trend of communication as a sign of weakness.
Look at the polarization present in the STO forums from the people who love Star Trek. Look at the mockery, look at the cynicism (even from me), look at how we treat other human beings who love Star Trek just as much as we do by calling them animals and trying to dehumanize them.
Look in the gameplay of Star Trek itself. As the signature of Scapes from the ArcheAge forums says, "Nothing says more about humanity than the games it plays."
And what does Star Trek Online say about how close we are to achieving the utopia Roddenberry created so many years ago?
It says destroy. Kill. Vaporize. Sabotage. It says destroy ships. It says make money. It says gamble with mystery boxes. It says work hard in a Sisyphus-like fashion in some cases.
Oh yes, 50 years of Star Trek humanism is very much present and openly visible to all who play Star Trek Online and interact with others.
And it is why it is science fiction.
It may have been about entertainment at first, but once Roddenberry knew Star Trek had a growing fanbase with thick wallets, it became more than that.
It wasn't just making money from the TV studio, it became making money off of the fanbase.
Even Leonard Nimoy was opposed to wearing the IDIC symbol in one episode because he knew it meant absolutely nothing but something Gene could package and sell to the fans.
We're the Terran Empire.
Belly shirts and wanton non-consensual sex until the end of days!
Start growing your goatee, gentlemen.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
I always saw us more as the Ferengi. That was kind of the joke in DS9. That the Ferengi were reviled and despised by most, but that they were 'us'.
Maybe it's just me being too anal about word usage in relation to context, as I usually am.
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Too bad nobody will listen. They'll just try to blatantly attack this post.
Star Trek can be about making money, but that can be said about every artistic endevour in history.
It's also about progress, the dream of becoming better than we are, the triumph of empathy and the wish for self-improvement. We play this, instead of counter strike or wow, because something in it speaks to us. Its not about destruction and killing, its about the stories, taking part in the dream of exploration, overcoming the odds, standing for your principles and fighting for whats right.
But if you're here for the magic boxes thats cool too.
Also, happy Festivus everyone
thats what brought me to the game, exploring and adventure...im a fan of the old tall ship books so i dress CatStar as an old navy officer and even use the risa cruiser now since it looks like a tall ship. originally i bought the vulcan ship since it looked the closest to a tall ship, but its been made obsolete now. i miss the old exploring missions, they where generic in respect to the potential of this game but they kept me comig back...i miss the first contact ones too. this game would be so much more fun if there more tv show situations where u have to think and use diplomacy and rasoning to solve stuff...a game that makes u think and contemplate ones self and learn about new and alien cultures. im envious of old sailors they got to do this kinda stuff for real
Yep, they sure did get to do exactly what we do in STO-for real.
if that where true id be pushing my officers into the water once a day
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Why did you spell you at the start of that but then use "u" instead of "you" later?
They got to fight all the new people they met just like we do.
I like some of the discussions out there about who came up with...
"Join X, Travel to Foreign Places, Meet Exotic People, and Kill Them"
...as if it's not something we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years.
Please try again. Nowhere in his post did he accuse you or anyone here of having no morales.
Superb overreaction.
Lol...it starts off that way with the very first sentence and continues on like a sermon from the pulpit from there. That kind of proselytizing has no place on the forums.
That's what he was doing. I do not see someone going, "You need to change! You need to convert to this or else etc!"
It's all there in the "Perfect World Entertainment Community Rules and Policies" - http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/announcement.php?f=129&a=51
Has nothing to do with opinions, mainstream, or anything like that. We're not supposed to talk about certain things - regardless of what our opinion on those things are, and that generally precisely the reason we're not supposed to talk about certain things - that difference of opinion and arises from it.