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Holy hell, the miniskirts. I know it was progressive for its time, women's lib, etc. But: Female officers bending over console, butt swell hanging out. Almost every episode, over sexualized women needlessly emotional, constantly falling into male arms. Barely clothed, wisps of fabric. Spock saying that Kirk's alter ego trying to rape his female officer made him interesting.

I'm at episode 14, 1st season. Is the rest of the series like this?

That said, there's a hard, pure science to it I haven't seen in later star treks. Can see how people then would find it fascinating. Also gets deep, in a weighty, high drama way.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What if in a thousand years “Measure of a Man” is used as justification for cancelling TNG for daring to imply an artificial life form isn’t sentient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A thousand? At the rate AI is improving, I wouldn't be surprised to see this start to change in my lifetime!

I bet the big one is going to be something like younger audiences being uncomfortable with any classic shows/movies that show meat-eating. Whatever our blindspot is, it'll have to be something that largely flies under our radar right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I recently watched Travelers, which is about people coming back from the future, and one of the things most of them couldn't handle was eating meat.

(Pretty decent show, picks up in the second season You'd like it if you like sci fi that focuses on characters and has cameos from other shows shot in British Columbia. 6.5/10)

(No, Richard Dean Anderson does not make an appearance)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I loved Travelers. It's a really good show and actually has a satisfying finale, unlike so many other sci-fi shows. And it also had a lot fewer "wait, this doesn't make sense" moments than other time travel shows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The first episode is a little too touchy feely for me so I didn't watch until my GF recommended it to me. I'm glad I did, but it's still too many emotions and not enough reversing polarity to be one of my favorites. But I really like the concept and you're right that it was great to have an actual ending for the show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh interesting, I'll have to remember this one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

At the rate AI is improving

What today is touted as AI is actually nothing of the sort. And it's not modeling a mind, so there's no risk of the Singularity happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is very much AI, it's just not AGI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The need to invent the AGI was due to decades of misuse of "AI".