Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26863727-20151113052730

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I also didn't know it was possible to hate someone you've never seen this much, or that it was possible to be this offended.

Let's examine the thing point by point.

"There's more of it!"

Only if you ignore Legends because your nose is too deep in your pseudoscience textbooks, in which case Trek is outnumbered forty to one.

"Star Wars is for children and idiots"

This argument doesn't even pretend that this asshole is unbiased.

"People solve problems through such and such, not 'space magic'"

He forgot about the shit that defies physics more often than The Force on a nearly by-the-minute basis. Perhaps he should look at how the average modern engineer would actually be a better choice IRL.

"Star Trek deals with actual issues"

It does. But does that make Game of Thrones a better sci-fi show than Star Trek? It does the same, and twice as well without sinking into the three layered cake of a horrible franchise- shitty stories on top, boring conversations in the middle, and- oh, what's this at the bottom? We'll get to it in the next one.

"Aspirational goal for the human race"

This part of Star Trek is several things, A) an utterly ludicrous thing: humans are disagreeable by our very nature; if we cast aside what makes us human then what are we? B) the Federation is communist; signs are everywhere; and not real communism(that would actually be a good thing, though it goes against human nature so it's about a 0% chance of it actually happening), it's the sort where they 'elect' 'representatives', and the government works 'for the people', so this is actually a very bleak future for humans C) Starfleet personnel repeatedly say things that claim species and culture are inseparable; that is outright racist D) if the people of the Federation were an "enlightened species among the stars", they would not have either B or C. Or the Prime Directive(at least not in its existing form). 