Yeah, this is really comparing apples to oranges.
It is fine to like/dislike the creative direction separate from the question of someone being a “role model”.
When people talk about “hating” Kurtzman they are obviously being hyperbolic about it.
For example: I hate Kurtzman with a passion.
This whole ideological purity concept is so fucking tiresome and cancerous.

I recommend [Orb of Creation] for your orb pondering needs.

Well if someone regrets having their hearing restored it is very easy to reverse that… nobody can take that freedom.
If people really want more children to be born with mental disabilities I have no problem ignoring their wishes, I don’t think that is too controversial of an opinion no?

A refreshing perspective.

Speaking of zeitgeist, there is one thing that confuses me about modern Star Trek.
Kurtzman and co. are obviously not beholden to old canon such that they fear changing too much.
But somehow the technology in the new shows doesn’t seem to advance in a really meaningful way.
There was this whole android uprising in Picard but somehow the status quo didn’t budge? Like huh? Did I miss something?

Why is that one specifically a bad take?
I really wish it would come true (it is one of the reasons I really like Star Trek), but I also recognize that it is an idealistic dream.

There is no united humanity and there will never be one.
We are not a hivemind after all.
If you restrict your actions to account for every possible way it could go wrong you end up doing nothing at all.
Some people will end up doing it anyway, with or without permission.
Making it legal at least steers it into a more ethical and productive direction

Of course the super rich would immediately meddle with their offspring if they could.
But his would not produce any kind of superhuman.
We barely understand how the mind works, attempting to make someone more intelligent with genetic manipulation is like poking a haystack and hoping that a needle finds its way to the top.
Technology that advanced is like 100 years into the future at the earliest.
The best we can do is to change your hair color and the way your sweat smells, that kinda thing.
People are racist even without the help of genetic manipulation so it would change absolutely nothing of consequence.

I would argue that the bad reputation that eugenics got by being associated with fascism is very detrimental to societal progress.
Before we understood genes and could manipulate them, the “solutions” (e.g. sterilization) to debilitating genetic disorders were very cruel.
But this has changed with the advent of genetic screening and gene therapy.
People are so reluctant to accept the good that these technologies can do that we are dooming future generations to unnecessary suffering.
The first time I heard of diseases like cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and Huntington’s disease I was very curious why they were not being eliminated by genetic screening.
People act like we would immediately create a second class of people like Khan if we allowed more direct intervention but this is simply not true.
There is a world of difference between eliminating horrible diseases and creating super humans.

I will always struggle to understand this “hate boner” that the writers had for genetic augmentation.
By sheer irony they made Star Fleet more bigoted by excluding augmented people.

After this scene the had to drag Currey out of the nearest launch facility.

You can soak sandpaper in warm water to make it more pliable.
I recommend trying out out with a small piece first, to get an estimate on how it holds up.

I refuse to believe that this glorious moment was produced by anything other than method acting, it is just too perfect.

Wow so triggered much indignation

Thanks!

Gary Gygax was 28 years old when Star Trek first started airing and he was 36 when he published the first version of DnD.
I have a feeling that he was very much influenced romulans in his portrayal of dark elves as shifty paranoid and backstabbing.
I mean vulcans are explicitly meant to be space elves and romulans are meant to be a “dark” version that amplifies the negative traits and demonstrate the downsides of an isolationist society (Gene Roddenberry HATED isolationism).
The more original take on that idea of a “bad guy” player race, the thiefling, didn’t join DnD canon until 1994 in Second edition.

That video is such a treasure.
Props to Joshua Marchant for voicing all three characters so well.

You are being a good sport about it too. 😁

Silent but deadly… every time I see that green ectoplasm thats the first thing that comes to mind.

Given how much it has been brought up I guess its a bit of a mindvirus.