For anyone unaware, this joke references a conflation of the Spock we all know and love with Dr. Benjamin Spock, who wrote some of the most prominent books on child rearing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock
I was (probably at some point willfully) unaware of this most of my childhood, and it was more fun to think about than the real thing. I miss the days when I could make up my own answers to references. :p
That’s the legal purpose of a yellow light, yes. However people have been getting worse and worse with actually following it. Now on green I always wait a few seconds for some yahoo to come flying through on the side street claiming he made it on yellow
No red light cameras in your parts? I get this happens, but if it’s this frequent makes me wonder if there’s ever any fines for it? Depending how late it is should be instant licence revokation and fine in my opinion.
A couple decades ago, there was a scandal in, I think, Chicago. They used red light cameras but then kept cutting the timing of the yellow lights, turning it into a revenue generating exercise. People remember.
It’s criminal that Berman would only allow the Garak/Bashir thing to be subtext. The first gay couple on Star Trek and also a cross-species couple would have been amazing. The best we got was evil mirror Kira fucking anything.
It’s criminal that Berman would only allow the Garak/Bashir thing to be subtext
Ok I am SO GLAD I was not imagining this! I’m only halfway through S2 of DS9, and but I have been sitting here questioning whether Bashir and Garak were gonna have a little something going on in the future, or if the girl in my class that talks loudly about her yaoi manga collection was finally getting to me…
It's hilarious that they were more accepting of men of different species over women. Like what if she starts baking or decides to get pregnant while we are fighting the Klingons. They truly saw women as the inferior gender back then.
For real. Sometimes I wonder if I was around in the 60s if I’d hear more people bitch about her being a woman or her being black. It’s so fucking stupid. But way for humanity to ‘keep the tradition going’ I guess considering they’ve now moved it from cisgendered folks to transgendered folks.
I would like to (probably) answer for you. There is a news paper article from around the same time as TOS asking if men should spank their wife’s for misbehaving. Every man that was in the article said yes.
Unfortunately while that’s true, and this was an era when single women often couldn’t have a bank account, this era was also just mind bogglingly racist. Like “I understand that racism and hate don’t make sense but what the actual fuck is wrong with you” racist. Martin Luther King Jr was a Trekkie while being openly demonized for peaceful marches.
Fair enough, also Love v. Virginia was also in the courts at the same time as TOS. Frankly I don’t think it matters which was more pronounced at the time, because neither should exist. But that’s one of the pluses of TOS. It almost certainly played a role in changing such beliefs
You’re right, I probably should go rewatch that episode where the crew triggers a Cardasians trap, and the station captures them, and Dukat comes to gloat.
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