Even though I’m glad the Indians and Redskins names are gone, I think both teams’ new names are really boring.

It seems like people generally assume that societies are most susceptible to tyranny when things are bad, but it seems like the last two elections have gone the opposite way: we elected Trump when things were relatively good and then when we had an actual catastrophe we elected Biden.

Weird to think that Kermit used to be a totally normal name.

I think people often underestimate the damage done by powerful people who don’t crave the spotlight.

Not a fan of Force Awakens?

All the crap about “owning the libs” has made me determined to not take a stance just because it’s the opposite of someone I don’t like.

That’s not the point. You were accusing people criticizing Will Smith of being eager to demonize a black person, and yet you sounded supportive of the idea that Rock deserved to get slapped. So I guess he’s your “black bogeyman”?

How does Chris Rock also being black fit into this?

I bet a lot of the same people who hate Paramount+ Trek hated Voyager too.

I was talking more about the idea that the Trek franchise is more money-driven than it used to be than about Roddenberry’s flaws.

I remember Discovery’s last two seasons being about rebuilding the Federation’s ideals after a future collapse.

One problem I had was that the actors kept mumbling their dialogue.

You say “TNG/DS9 era” as though they weren’t two very different shows.

Are Discovery and Picard really more cynical than DS9? In your original post you referred to “the cynicism of the franchise over the last decade”, and DS9 ended over two decades ago.

I was talking about the idea that the Trek franchise is more cynical than it used to be rather than about the worth of NFTs.

You think there wouldn’t have been Trek NFTs in the past if they could’ve?

You say that like Trek merchandise hasn’t been around forever.

Gene Roddenberry didn’t exactly practice what he preached when it came to money.

I like all of the new Trek shows to some degree, but I think CBS/Paramount may have got it in their heads that in this Golden Age of TV you can’t just do a show about a ship exploring space.

Weird how little his role on Stargate: Atlantis is remembered today, although I thought it was a pretty generic warrior character anyway.