Episode highlights:
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Prescriptive advice for the Second Nakba
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Projecting American cultural values on to allegorical Palestinians to make a point
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Lt. Data gets a smoochLt. Data arbitrarily pretends not to have emotions instead of just telling a girl he doesn't reciprocate romantic interest -
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Picard moves people from their generational home and also wins the day with evil space legalese
24 Comments
daannii@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 143d
I always thought ferengi represented American capitalism.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 143d
They do. But lazy interpretations were made
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 141d
Wellllll... There is the matter of the ethnicity of every single actor who plays a Ferengi.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 141d
Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Walter Koenig, Bent Spiner, Anton Yelchin and a bunch of others on the show were Jewish too though. It's just a profession that has a lot of Jewish people. Comedians were kind of the same, in the 70's 80% of American comedians were Jewish.
There's a whole different can of worms to open about why Jewish people got relegated to only certain kinds of jobs
dermanus@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 142d
I understood them as representing humanities greed. All the races stand in for some aspect of humanity. Our violence, our suspicion, our logic, our greed, etc...
Some people did make comparisons to Jewish stereotypes and while there are a few I don't think it's too strong. Klingon culture has flavours of Samurai in it, but it doesn't make them stand ins for Japanese.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 0 pts · 141d
To be specific, it's not representing those things themselves but a way of projecting what would happen if those elements were more exclusively glorified. Klingons are a culture in which martial strength and honour are culturally glorified. Ferengi are a culture in which greed is not just present or prominent, but specifically glorified. Each one takes a concept, raises its value to max and then a society is built around that value. And then the Captain, as embodiment of enlightened liberalism, meets that culture and comes to terms with it.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 142d
I wouldn't say American capitalism, just capitalism in general.
teft@piefed.social · 4 pts · 142d
I thought they were supposed to be jewish characters since some of the antisemitic tropes for jewish people is their love of money and large noses.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 142d
And a lot of the actors playing them are Jewish
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 142d
I would think the ears were their most pronounced feature.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 142d
I know I know… we’ll make their EARS big!!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 143d
Let’s be honest… the fact that hand phasers are able to blow up damns from miles away….
Says a lot about the values of the federation.
c10l@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
Seeing that Federation phasers are some of the weakest hand weapons in that universe, what does that say about the values of its enemies?
teft@piefed.social · 10 pts · 142d
Federation phasers aren’t weak. The federation just prefers to stun people rather than vaporize them. Remember when Data used his phaser to shutdown that power grid? Or the time they vaporized rock with their phasers?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 142d
Federation phasers are versatile. It's keeping in line with their whole ethos. Yes the phaser can be used as a weapon, but it also doubles as a tool.
Kinda like a shovel.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 142d
TBF, you're gonna want a spade, not a shovel. The pointed end is farrr more versatile than the flat, blunted front of a shovel.
ie. A shovel =/= a tactical spade 🤌🏼
kieron115@startrek.website · 6 pts · 142d
Pre-Federation weapons were nothing to shake a stick at either lol.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 142d
He phaser'd an aqueduct and vaporized something like milles of water one time.
Not to mention the times ships have used their phasers to fuck with the planet scale tectonics
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 143d
I've never seen a klingon disruptor pistol do that. Have you? or Cardie, or any one else's (though there was that time Quark was trying to sell some shoulder fire artillery...)
we don't know what kind of range or power they really have. Just like how their starships aren't warships, but they out class most other faction's warships.the other factions don't hide what they are though. (and the kind of firepower that can take out damns from miles away is simply unneeded in any battlefield at that level of accessibility.)
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 142d
Dams*
(fuck me, is is Spellcheck Saturday? 😅)
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 142d
Spelling doesn't count on weekends, we're all too tired
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Sad detective's reference to actor Bent Spiner was the best one in the thread
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 141d
shit 🤦
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 140d
Can't be israel, Ferengi don't find profit in genocide