▲ 136 ▼ Elon Musk Wants To Make 'Star Trek' Real Without Everything That Makes 'Star Trek' Great (www.jalopnik.com) submitted 10 months ago by USSEthernet@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (5 children) He doesn’t want Star Trek, he wants Starfleet. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 10 months ago (3 children) Terran Empire. Starfleet did have its problems, but anything involving humans is going to. Associating with humans was the most illogical thing Vulcans ever did. I guess the strategy was to have the insane on their side so they could watch them closely. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago Or Cardassian. Or Romulan. Both were fascist. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) When I say Starfleet I mean he wants the technology. He wants transporters and replicators and holodecks and photon torpedoes snd phasers, not the wisdom and maturity it takes to use that technology properly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago Which is exactly why the Prime Directive was set up. And I'm a believer in the theory that we are apes that, for various reasons, evolved certain abilities far faster than other primitive characteristics could keep up. We're like toddlers with things we shouldn't have. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago He wants something more kin to The Expanse I feel. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 10 months ago (3 children) Terran Empire. Starfleet did have its problems, but anything involving humans is going to. Associating with humans was the most illogical thing Vulcans ever did. I guess the strategy was to have the insane on their side so they could watch them closely. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago Or Cardassian. Or Romulan. Both were fascist. permalink fedilink source parent [–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) When I say Starfleet I mean he wants the technology. He wants transporters and replicators and holodecks and photon torpedoes snd phasers, not the wisdom and maturity it takes to use that technology properly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago Which is exactly why the Prime Directive was set up. And I'm a believer in the theory that we are apes that, for various reasons, evolved certain abilities far faster than other primitive characteristics could keep up. We're like toddlers with things we shouldn't have. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago Or Cardassian. Or Romulan. Both were fascist. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) When I say Starfleet I mean he wants the technology. He wants transporters and replicators and holodecks and photon torpedoes snd phasers, not the wisdom and maturity it takes to use that technology properly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago Which is exactly why the Prime Directive was set up. And I'm a believer in the theory that we are apes that, for various reasons, evolved certain abilities far faster than other primitive characteristics could keep up. We're like toddlers with things we shouldn't have. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago Which is exactly why the Prime Directive was set up. And I'm a believer in the theory that we are apes that, for various reasons, evolved certain abilities far faster than other primitive characteristics could keep up. We're like toddlers with things we shouldn't have. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago He wants something more kin to The Expanse I feel. permalink fedilink source parent