• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is why you don’t have your scifi shows praise people who are still alive irl…

    Seriously David Tennant’s doctor praising JK aged horribly… espcially since Tennant is a trans ally who absolutely hates her guts.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      It did work out when Star Trek had Stephen Hawking appear though.

      Stephen Hawking is the only person to have played himself in the entirety of Star Trek as well.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Wasn’t there an episode where Kirk met Shatner or something? After finding an alternate reality where it was all a show

        No no… remembered as I was typing…

        I was thinking of when Dave Lister met Craig Charles

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        Yeah, that is a good episode, but holy shit that aged like milk. The only thing that really saves it for me is the fact that David Tennant is a trans Ally and has publicly spoken against JK Rowling, one of the few United Kingdom based celebrities to do so.

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          Likely because Jowling Kowling Rowling has a history of sending legal threats to people in the UK who speak out about her bigotry, and most celebrities don’t want to get into a lawyer money pissing match with an unhinged ideologue. In the UK the people criticizing her are much more likely to lose a court case if it came to that; in the US, by comparison, it’s very difficult for public figures to have any speech about them removed or punished unless they can prove it is both false and was knowingly said with malice (very hard to prove).

  • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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    1 year ago

    The fact that there are two references to Musk in Discovery is a bit disheartening. There’s this one from Lorca but another when Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.

    I choose to believe that in this alternate universe he kept his mouth shut.

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      1 year ago

      This line was foreshadowing Lorca’s origin. You see, mirror Musk was actually competent, making him the precise inverse of real Musk.

      I don’t care that the timing is suspect and there’s another Musk reference in Discovery, I’ll die on this hill.