Star Trek
This is the lemmy.ml Star Trek community.
There are many other Star Trek communities around the Lemmyverse, and there is a Lemmy instance entirely dedicated to the subject (startrek.website).
Here are links to some of those other communities:
/c/[email protected]: Serious, in-depth Star Trek discussion
/c/[email protected]: Star Trek memes and shitposts
/c/[email protected]: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ("post all the nonsense you want")
/c/[email protected]: These are the voyages of the Starship Lenin.
/c/[email protected]: General Star Trek news and discussion
/c/[email protected]: Another general-purpose community
/c/[email protected]: Off-topic chat
/c/[email protected]: Star Trek Online discussion, tips, and tricks
/c/[email protected]: For fans of the Greatest Generation and Greatest Trek podcasts
/c/[email protected]: Meme-ory Alpha, another meme community
/c/[email protected]: Star Trek Memes & Shitposts
/c/[email protected]: A community for all things Star Trek.
/c/star_[email protected]: A Star Trek community where you’re free share your opinions about all things Trek.
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A great deal of what we call “courtesy” involves not being completely honest at all times. Just because something is true doesn’t necessarily mean that it must be pointed out.
edit: what does this have to do with courtesy?
Olyphant would have been 40-41 when they were casting Star Trek (2009) and Chris Pine was 28-29. That’s a pretty meaningful age difference that comes off in both appearance and performance. It wasn’t just some minor detail— the actor who got cast had to play Kirk from the age of ~18-25, so it made a lot more sense to cast an actor much closer to that age. I don’t see the problem here or how explaining that is “mean”.
edit: in fact, Olyphant didn’t think it was mean at all:
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