Comments on: Generation Charlie X

By: woodrowfan

woodrowfan — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:47:43 +0000

And what is it with their obsession with “courage”?

Like girls, it’s something they’ve read about, but have little actual experience with…

By: Darkrose

Darkrose — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:44:50 +0000

To those looking for an antedote (sic) to the wimpy, lets live in a risk free world, hang-wringing whiners — this movie is it.

Did these clowns see the same movie I saw last night? The one where Kirk spends a good chunk of his screen time getting the crap beaten out of him?

By: brantl

brantl — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:25:14 +0000

Kirk was a sanctimonious asshole. Everybody else on the show dragged him out of his little temper fits and made him act decently. I saw the show as a kid. And, it was pretty crappy science fiction, too.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:37:01 +0000

Parents who want to teach their children examples of leadership and courage — and sacrifice, take the whole family.

James Tiberius Kirk has always been a leadership role model, a character of great courage and vision and purpose.

If memory serves me correctly, Kirk got his command as the youngest Starfleet Commander by cheating. Them’s wingnut values, alright!

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:12:22 +0000

(That is the Missouri primary, before this Operation Chaos was ever heard of)

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:11:31 +0000

But remember that Star Trek was conceived of as “Wagon Train to the stars” and much of conservative mythology is about the West and the frontier.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:05:24 +0000

I think the abolishing of money was a TNG thing.

Star Trek is utopian, especially as compared to Babylon 5 or Enterprise. The Federation works harmoniously and the characters have high ideals.

As I will say over and over, my husband is not a wingnut. He voted for Hillary in the primary and would happily have voted for Al Gore. My husband remembers going to Trek conventions in the 70s when he was a teenager, so his love of Star Trek is probably not connected to anything political.

By: windy

windy — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:47:18 +0000

And there’s this

“These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! - The Kohms?
They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutY7NnNuyA

Or the objectively pro-terrorist “The Cloud Minders”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysjYoL-F3r4

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:23:47 +0000

It really is all rather pathetic. These guys are so far out in the wilderness that they have to look to sci fi fantasy to find something they perceive as relevant to their political outlook, and to any normal observer it looks like a whole lot more than a stretch to even make the connection.

And what is it with their obsession with “courage”? I’m getting a serious projection vibe here; the usual “rah-rah war; what, me enlist? Surely you jest!”

By: VonZeppelin

VonZeppelin — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:31:21 +0000

In my politically unenlightened way, I thought it was just a fun movie, with reasonably good acting and lots of stuff blowing up. Somehow I missed the part about it being a conservative manifesto. The only conservatives I saw were the nasty little Vulcan kids who wanted to kick young Spock’s ass because he didn’t conform to traditional social norms.