Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a moderator!
Lucien
joined 2 years ago
Shut up, Wesley
But if you hang in there, you get rewarded with a Riker's Beard
Everybody raise your hand if you were radicalized by Star Trek ✋
Where's the tiny blood stain that she miscarried?
"arch"
It helps that Stewart is such a fantastic monologist. It's like hearing something complex about biology or ecology from David Attenborough. They both have such an effortless ability to communicate difficult subjects.
Another key point I feel is often overlooked about Star Trek is the "Gulliver's Travels" component of (at least pre-Kelvin) Star Trek. Every show, every race was secretly a fun-house-like caricature of humanity's worst traits, with the humans of the show demonstrating growth past that point. You laugh at or shirk away from them, but really it's modern humanity that is being depicted (Ferengi as capitalists, Klingons as warmongers, Romulans as subversives, etc.) And then we see what we could be, the hope that you talked about, in future humanity
The wailing phallus
Still vibin