1967 - “A Taste of Armageddon”: Captain Kirk introduces the technocratic elites of rival worlds to the full horrors of warfare. Totally apolitical.
1968 - “A Private Little War”: Superpowers fight a destructive proxy war on a jungle planet; aired during the Tet Offensive. No politics here.
1969 - “Let This Be Your Last Battlefield”: White-and-black guys oppress black-and-white guys until their planet is destroyed in a race war. Aired 9 months after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Politics-free.
1986 - “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”: In this apolitical adventure, the crew of the Enterprise travels back in time to the 20th century to rescue humpbacked whales from extinction at the hands of industrial over-fishing.
1987 - 1994 - “Star Trek: The Next Generation”: Set in a post-scarcity communist utopia in which profit motive is looked upon as barbarous. Debuted during the Reagan Administration. Just a mindless adventure series.
1991 - “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”: Two superpowers negotiate an end to their decades-long Cold War over the objections of reactionary factions in both countries. Aired 4 months after the attempted coup against Gorbachev and two weeks before the dissolution of the USSR. No politics here.
1992 - “The Outcast”: The Enterprise visits a planet with only one biological sex, where a character who nevertheless identifies as a woman is forced to undergo conversion therapy. Released at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Mercifully free of politics.
1993 - 1999 - “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”: This politics-devoid series, which coincidentally aired during the Balkan Wars, follows a group of Federation observers who are assigned to guide the recovery of a war-torn planet.
1995 - “Past Tense, Parts 1 and 2″: Sisko, Bashir, and Dax take an apolitical trip back in time to an austerity- and inequality-ravaged early-twenty-first-century America on the cusp of revolutionary class violence, where despairing poor people are locked in ghettos whilst they “look for work”.
1996 - “Bar Association”: The employees of Quark’s Bar strike against exploitation by their employer; Rom literally quotes Karl Marx to his brother (in a wholly apolitical fashion).
2000 - “Critical Care”: The Doctor is abducted and forced to work in a horrifying, dystopian hospital where quality care and competent medics are reserved for the rich and well-to-do whilst the poor are left to bleed in an over-crowded, septic, dingy little room. Any resemblance to the American healthcare system is purely coincidental.
2001 - “Repentence”: Voyager finds itself needing to escort a bunch of alien deathrow prisoners to their execution, but finds that there is an entirely apolitical racial bias in who gets sentences in this fashion, and also that many of the murderers are not beyond reform.
2001: “Broken Bow”: Airing three weeks after 9/11, this apolitical episode finds Starfleet in conflict with a cabal of terrorists known as the Taliban Suliban.
2004: “The Forge”, “Awakening”, and “Kir’Shara”: A corrupt Vulcan government cracks down on pacifist dissidents and tries to instigate a war against with Andoria through bogus accusations that they are developing weapons of mass destruction. Aired in that lovely, politics-free aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq.
…Anyways, I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point: Star trek was always completely apolitical until Alex Kurtzman ruined it. If only they could return to the mindless, action-packed romp that Gene Roddenberry had always intended.
Jason got into the Bad Place for his impulsiveness, and he left through the final door after learning how to be calm and reflect.
Tahani got into the Bad Place because she only ever helped people was to gain the attention of her parents, and she became an architect so she could selflessly help people for real.
Chidi got into the Bad Place because of his indecisiveness, and he left through the final door by making an ultimate decision.
Eleanor got into the Bad Place because she was selfish and never helped others, and she went through the final door after she helped her friends.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
I’m a man and I have sexual and romantic feelings for other men that I actively pursue, and I think I heard somewhere that that’s not very lesbian of me.
I always thought that Michelin was like a prestigious international society of food critics but they’re a fucking tyre manufacturer.
I like how they were like “well there aren’t many cars around so to get them to buy more tires let’s publish a tour guide to France so people travel more and use up their tires.”
Over time they started to incorporate restaurants worth visiting on their tours and even sent out anonymous inspectors to gather information to rate them and now over 100 years later they made a notoriously grumpy world renowned chef cry because his restaurant lost two stars in a rating system that two dudes made up to sell more tires.
They became a world renowned food criticism magazine on accident?????
I THOUGHT THEY WERE DIFFERENT COMPANIES WITH THE SAME NAME WHAT THE FUCK
They’re intensely secretive about the identities of their critics, to the point that a critic profiled (in the New Yorker, I think) said she lied to her partner about what does for a living.
And chefs don’t just cry - one chef in France committed suicide after losing one of his stars.
On the positive side, though, afaik Le guide (as referred to in French) tries to dispatch reviewers to a region who are either from and/or are experts in the cuisines of that region, so you avoid some European taking a restaurant in Singapore because his palate is used to continental food.
