How the fuck can Elon Musk claim to be a Trekkie? When he is against everything Star Trek stands for?!
The psychological dissonance of that man is insane!
He also claims to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book series where technology corporations are absolutely loathed and every AI is either a broken or an asshole or both.
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." '
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
And I think he has endorsed The Culture books, which also is kinda Startrek on steroids. Omg that universe is amazing.
He also said the Cybertruck is "what Bladerunner would drive".
he doesn't actually know a fucking thing about sci-fi.
Like every Conservative, he either knows fuck-all, or only has a surface-level knowledge, about art. It's why they think a socialist like George Orwell would write books defending their ideals or that songs like "Born in the USA" are patriotic.
Given Musk's prejudices, that surprises me -- especially since in The Culture being transgender is extremely uncontroversial. (Hell, even the spacecraft are permitted to determine their roles and choose their own names; meanwhile Musk is desperately trying to wrench Grok into his own image.)
What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.
TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.
I think this is indeed it, unfortunately.
To such sociopaths incapable of empathetic thought, Star Trek is awesome because future and technology and winning battles. So if you’re a tech bro and you’re winning (money) and pushing technology forward regardless of the costs, and everybody knows who you are because of it, well then you must be an awesome human that’s winning at life! Because obviously good life = victorious life.
It's a common theme. There are a lot of conservatives who are still somehow fans of Star Trek because they the lack media literacy needed to figure out that they're values are not shared by the good guys on the show.
Remember how conservatives think that Rage Against The Machine is on their side. There's no delusion too great after that.
I think he didn't really get that "Picard gets a neurological link to the Borg" == "not good"...
The same way so many idiot fans seem to think star trek is "too woke" now lol
Musk wants the Terran Empire, not the Federation
His profile picture does depict him wearing armor after all
People fail to realize that we're in the mirror universe and the universe Star Trek exists in is the unattainable utopia.
Robert Picardo is great
Robert Picardo is an absolute treasure.
So I hate to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure Robert Picardo is a hologram...
fucking poser. every piece of media you claim to love is a protest to your entire existence.
Haha guys I too love what you like! Such shows as: (small faction of desperate yet brave people breaking out of their dystopic society) I very much like (main character)!!
Second step: abolish capitalism, and by extension billionaires, and give everyone free healthcare and education.
Yeah nothing says "I support a post-scarcity economy" like a bunch of billionaires
IMO if you're a billionaire and stay a billionaire, you're incapable and unworthy of being called altruistic. Nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody even needs a tenth of that. There should be a $1 million annual asset cap on all income sources, full stop. Everything else should go to social services, infrastructure, etc. and NOT person or military anything.
Finally, a self-driving car with actual intelligence.
For those that don’t know, the Johnny-Cab self driving taxis from this movie are voiced by Robert Picardo
What?! Awesome!
And since I had to double check if I remembered right, the film is Total Recall
Edit: Looking closer, I can see the family resemblance between JohnnyCab and EMH.
Musk would de-Tuvix Tuvix and then also shoot Tuvok and Neelix once they were separated.
So annoying how this guy gets credited in DIS.
I watched this wayyyy after Musk turned evil and I thought it was really good foreshadowing that maybe Lorca isn't the best guy.
I don't think that was intentional... But it did genuinely make the twist better for me
That is the type of burn that requires a broom and dust pan instead of a cream.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, Elon.
The only thing this shit stain knows about Star Trek is that the doors slide to the side.
Even though this is a perfect retort, the 42,000,000 impressions v 1,400 really is the dystopian part. No one who uses the billionaire's site saw it or will see it.
Kes please get a dermal regenerator for that burn
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