• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    I recently had a conversation with a relative telling me they could not watch one of the recent Star Treks because they heard it was “woke”.

    It’s Star Trek. It is ALWAYS woke. Star Trek (1966) was woke fifty years before “woke” was defined as a thing.

    You can’t have Star Trek without “woke” because that’s what Star Trek is.

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      Star Wars fan here. Star Trek has always been an incredible example in pop culture of progressive values. They’ve supported love in all its forms, diversity, inclusion, and other “woke” values. They’ve created a world where everyone looks out for each other, protects each other, and includes each other. Star Trek is the future I want to live in. So, to all Star Trek fans, I give you a very enthusiastic “live long and prosper”.

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        So, to all Star Trek fans, I give you a very enthusiastic “live long and prosper”.

        It’s not too late to join us.

        “Peace, and long life.”

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      Also, woke isn’t a negative term. The right made it a negative term by applying it to anything they disagree with.

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      I mean TOS had black people who could work on the bridge and be engineers, not to mention a whole episode on how black/white people are the same as white/black people, what kind of shameless woke debauchery is this smh

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        It doesn’t get more blatant than a society divided by whether or not the left half of their faces are black or white. And having their conflict resolved by the end.

        And so many actors from the original Roots, including both Lavar Burton and The Sisko, were in Star Trek.