I was aware of the story of Spacey ..... I didn't know the person he had assaulted was Anthony Rapp and I didn't know Rapp now plays a starring role in Star Trek: Discovery
Now I have to watch Star Trek: Discovery
I also have a new found appreciation for @Stamets@startrek.website ... thanks for sharing your story and who you are here ... in an age of anonymity, that is a big thing to do ... Personally I'm proud of you and everything you've done and continue to do for this community. I'm a big fan and I'm sure there are lots more here who would say the same.
Wow what a day to be on Risa .... I love all you guys on here ... keep doing what you're all doing ... It's a beautiful light in a darkening internet.
Serious time: this is one of the reasons I really enjoy this community. We shitpost, but we also give a shit. We try to be good to each other, and we try to be constructive.
Makes sense, I suppose; after all, the only really meaningful currencies in the UFoP are reputation and character.
I just watched my first episode last night and I feel like a teenager again when I first saw TNG ... I was waiting to see it all later but after all this, and Risa and the memes and you and the memes ... I feel excited again. Love you too!
The last 2 seasons is where it really got good for me. The complex stuff they had to do to interact with aliens so staggeringly different from humans... know discovery gets a lot of hate, but first time I watched it, it was what I always wished star trek would be. More believable, realistic, hazy grey areas, way better special effects, cinematography.
Anthony Rapp is a goddamn hero. Even just coming forward, being visible, thriving, are all heroic acts in my opinion. Although, it’s not necessarily something you’d want to be known as a hero for.
Also, RE: Spacey’s coming out. I think it goes a few layers deeper. It felt like he was trying to garner the support of the LGBT community in a very “Look they’re accusing me of being a pedophile. But, I’m gay! And we all know that’s the reason they’re saying I did this, right friends?”. When that happened, I looked up his accuser and found Anthony Rapp, an openly gay man. I immediately wrote Spacey off then and there.
Trek being a window to humanity looking beyond it's own bigotry and selfishness is it's biggest appeal to me. The build up has been incremental and a reflection of our own progress over the decades. Quite a ways to go, of course, but at least for a while things have been looking up.
I am genuinely and deeply embarrassed that I had not even thought to connect that before. I saw the stories, and I’ve watched discovery and I know the actors, but I just never put two and two together, I guess.
Jesus .... I just reread the entire thread here and I can't believe what happened ... it's amazing, funny, revealing and unbelievable ... I half expect you to also announce that you are going to have @ummthatguy@lemmy.world 's baby
This feels like a Spanish soap opera and I feel like the housekeeper that just witnessed it all
63 Comments
Stamets@startrek.website · 67 pts · 2y
armus@startrek.website · 21 pts · 2y
I TOTALLY missed the Anthony Rapp connection wow, this is some 3d chess level meming, and Spacey is a massive POS
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
Stamets@startrek.website · 11 pts · 2y
Stamets@startrek.website · 16 pts · 2y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
WTF .... unbelievable ... I'm amazed, shocked, surprised, confused, and flabbergasted.
I was aware of the story of Spacey ..... I didn't know the person he had assaulted was Anthony Rapp and I didn't know Rapp now plays a starring role in Star Trek: Discovery
Now I have to watch Star Trek: Discovery
I also have a new found appreciation for @Stamets@startrek.website ... thanks for sharing your story and who you are here ... in an age of anonymity, that is a big thing to do ... Personally I'm proud of you and everything you've done and continue to do for this community. I'm a big fan and I'm sure there are lots more here who would say the same.
Wow what a day to be on Risa .... I love all you guys on here ... keep doing what you're all doing ... It's a beautiful light in a darkening internet.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
Serious time: this is one of the reasons I really enjoy this community. We shitpost, but we also give a shit. We try to be good to each other, and we try to be constructive.
Makes sense, I suppose; after all, the only really meaningful currencies in the UFoP are reputation and character.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Just about sums it up.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Stamets@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
I just watched my first episode last night and I feel like a teenager again when I first saw TNG ... I was waiting to see it all later but after all this, and Risa and the memes and you and the memes ... I feel excited again. Love you too!
Stamets@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y
31415926535@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
The last 2 seasons is where it really got good for me. The complex stuff they had to do to interact with aliens so staggeringly different from humans... know discovery gets a lot of hate, but first time I watched it, it was what I always wished star trek would be. More believable, realistic, hazy grey areas, way better special effects, cinematography.
All star trek is good, tho.
Stamets@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I believe the story came out just as Discovery was starting.
GreenMario@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Holy shit.
Stamets@startrek.website · 8 pts · 2y
negativenull@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Holy shit! I didn't know this!
Stamets@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
negativenull@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
My jaw is still dropped.
Stamets@startrek.website · 14 pts · 2y
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Anthony Rapp is a goddamn hero. Even just coming forward, being visible, thriving, are all heroic acts in my opinion. Although, it’s not necessarily something you’d want to be known as a hero for.
Also, RE: Spacey’s coming out. I think it goes a few layers deeper. It felt like he was trying to garner the support of the LGBT community in a very “Look they’re accusing me of being a pedophile. But, I’m gay! And we all know that’s the reason they’re saying I did this, right friends?”. When that happened, I looked up his accuser and found Anthony Rapp, an openly gay man. I immediately wrote Spacey off then and there.
negativenull@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
I love that he just is, without explanation or apology. That's really what Start Trek is about
Stamets@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Trek being a window to humanity looking beyond it's own bigotry and selfishness is it's biggest appeal to me. The build up has been incremental and a reflection of our own progress over the decades. Quite a ways to go, of course, but at least for a while things have been looking up.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
My jaw is collapsing into a neutron star
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
And now Rapp plays a spacey character in space.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
I am genuinely and deeply embarrassed that I had not even thought to connect that before. I saw the stories, and I’ve watched discovery and I know the actors, but I just never put two and two together, I guess.
Stamets@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 29 pts · 2y
I apologize for nothing
Stamets@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink · 26 pts · 2y
AND I'M NEVER STOPPING YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
I LOVE THE BRIG
Infynis@midwest.social · 15 pts · 2y
Don't you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!!
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink · 16 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink · 12 pts · 2y
That's what makes it fun!
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink · 10 pts · 2y
stephfinitely@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
Stamets@startrek.website · 13 pts · 2y
negativenull@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
verity_kindle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
🎶 Born to be kevs, they are the risans of the uuuniverse 🎶
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
negativenull@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
negativenull@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y
Stamets? .... with the gimpy leg? .... Nah ... Definitely not him
ensignrick@startrek.website · 14 pts · 2y
You were smooching with my brother.
Stamets@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Jesus .... I just reread the entire thread here and I can't believe what happened ... it's amazing, funny, revealing and unbelievable ... I half expect you to also announce that you are going to have @ummthatguy@lemmy.world 's baby
This feels like a Spanish soap opera and I feel like the housekeeper that just witnessed it all
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Who told you?!
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Can I be the godfather?
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Perhaps, but you would do well to get consent from Stamets.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Stamets@startrek.website · 5 pts · 2y
Lydia_K@startrek.website · 12 pts · 2y
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
harmonea@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
I swear some days I see as many memes about the people posting memes as I see memes from those posters.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
ensignrick@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y
Round up the usual suspects'
SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
If my client supported DMs I’d be so up in Stamets’ business that he would know I was a fun guy.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
verity_kindle@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I got 99 problems and a Frenchman ain't one
Stamets@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y
SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Get a shroom you two.
The irony is that I’m a biologist with mild but very real mycophobia. I want to watch that fungus documentary with Bjork.
Stamets@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
Lydia_K@startrek.website · 8 pts · 2y
undeffeined@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
I love this community
Bebo@literature.cafe · 5 pts · 2y
Oh I love this community too! This whole thread has made me feel warm and fuzzy and nice something that doesn't happen usually browsing the internet
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Considering Anthony Rapp literally began MeToo with Spacey, I'd say the only one this is cruel to is Spacey.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 9 pts · 2y
Pay no mind to the Bolian in the comments.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
My apologies. Would have included yourself and others had I the room. You can be Kobayashi, though.
verity_kindle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y