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Star Trek: Picard is supposed to be about Trump, anti-Trump, etc...
posted by KnixonSTAFFMOD on January 28, 2020 at 5:46 PM
But what if Picard IS Trump?
Think about it.
There are a lot of details that can be included, but I'll settle for a rough outline.
Some people claim that Trump turned the wonderful US and federal government that Obama had created, into a cesspool... even before he was sworn into office, really.
But the "Deep State" and such have been around for a long time. FBI misbehavior - including spying on Trump and the Trump campaign - occurred during the Obama administration
On Star Trek, we might find that problems with the Federation/Starfleet in general and with Earth in particular, were developing for a long time. And that Picard's departure from Starfleet was not just from a single out-of-the-blue or out-of-left-field event. Even in the TNG and DS9 series-es, we saw what could be evidence of increasing problems and corruption "back home." For example, in the two-part DS9 episode "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost." Picard has been seeing all of that going on during his lifetime.
Similarly, Trump has been around and involved in business, and somewhat in politics, for a long time too.
So now in Star Trek: Picard, we're going to get Picard rising up to take on the problems back home, etc etc.
Just like Trump.
I await the exploding heads.
Reply by znexyish
on February 9, 2020 at 8:06 PM
Original mellotrons are analog tape loops so no problem. Same with real Theramins and the Ondes Martinot.
Reply by Nexus71
on February 9, 2020 at 8:07 PM
And Hammond organs ?
She Blinded Me With Samples
Reply by znexyish
on February 9, 2020 at 8:16 PM
Well Hammond organs are just electricty and pipes. I once had a little synth with a strap that you could wear and play. Key-Tar or Synth-Tar is what the common name was.
Reply by Nexus71
on February 9, 2020 at 8:27 PM
Ow those things those are so 80's
Reply by Knixon
on February 9, 2020 at 9:38 PM
A big thing in later years was producing synthesizers that could properly sound like a Hammond. Difficult task.
Blondie used Hammond B3 a lot, including with some custom-made speaker systems with Leslie, for live shows. But other times they used sound-alikes, especially in smaller settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-iQ5bN3y3A
note the solo beginning at 1:37.
Reply by Nexus71
on February 9, 2020 at 9:47 PM
Elton John and Bernie Taupin for best song movie Rocketman.
Reply by Oduntola
on February 11, 2020 at 8:42 AM
"That would be considered racist nowadays Knix we can't have white men exploiting people from another race".
The ironic tone aside, Nexus clearly STILL doesn't get that 'white men exploiting people from other another race' is a problem!. My work continues.
In case some here don't understand THAT IS A PROBLEM! It is THE problem and cause of a lot of the strife in the world today Almost ALL sectarian and civil wars from Asia to Africa to the Middle East , have their underpinnings from the wickedly expansionist actions of WHITE MEN in the last century. THAT is a fact! I know many here don't want to acknowledge that, so when their "fav" show doesn't continue this mold of "thinking", they lose interest. All of a sudden they see flaws in the shows they championed before. Some white men today (KNIXON) are looking for ways to continue this wicked design by pushing unnatural RACIST policies that involve things like MISCEGENATION. Actually RACIAL control.
Knixon, why don't you give your lecture on this topic so I don't have to keep bringing it up? You know I WILL!!!
Reply by Knixon
on February 11, 2020 at 7:25 PM
Of course! That explains why Africa and the "native americans" were totally peaceful until evil whitey showed up! And FORCED those African tribes to sell their own people and those from "enemy" tribes into slavery! And all the rest!
uhhhh….
Reply by Nexus71
on February 12, 2020 at 2:42 AM
I am not downplaying anything but thinking that all whites are bad or all the wrongs of the World are the fault of whitey is not only naive but preposterous. Like whitey is to blame for the killing fields in Cambodia or the massacre of Tutsi's or Hutus in Rwanda or the mass murdering of political opponents by the likes of Mobutu,Idi Amin,Ferdinand Marcos,Pol Pot, Pinochet or the massacre at Nanking. History has always been about the haves exploiting the havenots the stronger dominating the weak and skin color has nothing to do with that. Just because the whites had the advantage in science and technology that enabled them to conquer the world doesn't mean things would have been different if the roles were reversed if men of color would have had the upper hand in science and technology.Didn't the Egyptians,Babylonians,Persians,Assyrians, Arabians,Chinese,Hittites,Toltecs, Mayans,Aztecks,Inca's,Ghanese,Malians, Songhais,Kanemi's,Khmer etc etc conquered their neighbouring countries and formed Empires and Kingdoms and did they not enslave those they conquered?Didn't they sell them to white slave traders or used them themselves for labour or as servants or were used as human sacrifice? You have a very narrow minded view on history .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_empires
https://blog.rhinoafrica.com/2018/03/27/9-ancient-african-kingdoms/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_chronology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_empires_in_Asia.
In fact during the Middle Ages 500-roughly 1453 the roles around the Mediterranean were reversed where the white Europeans were being conquered and enslaved by the Arabians
Reply by Knixon
on February 12, 2020 at 3:53 AM
Don't let them off the hook! There's still slavery in parts of Africa TODAY!
And those "peaceful," "wise" "Native Americans" ALSO practiced slavery. And cannibalism!
Reply by Nexus71
on February 12, 2020 at 5:29 AM
I actually have come up with a theory that could explain the Irish Romulans .I think the Bringloidi weren't satisfied with the Marioposans so they moved to the greener pastures of the Romulan Empire although it wouldn't quite fit the timeline because Picard's Irish Romulan maid seems much older.
Reply by Knixon
on February 12, 2020 at 5:52 AM
Well neither the Marioposans nor the Bringloidi (of course) had their own warp ships. But maybe the Romulans kidnapped them at some point, or something.
But that said, even if whoever became his maid, was already alive at the time of "Up The Long Ladder," she couldn't have aged more than another 25 years or whatever.
Remember, they said there were what, almost 300 of the Bringloidi? We only saw a dozen or so throughout that episode.
And it seems like they should have grown a lot more in population over 300 years.
Reply by Nexus71
on February 12, 2020 at 6:00 AM
Hope Kurtzman and his Minions aren't reading this because we might have given them a means to explain their own incompetence.
Reply by Knixon
on February 12, 2020 at 4:52 PM
"The Bringloidi! Yeah, that's the ticket!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4
Reply by znexyish
on February 12, 2020 at 5:33 PM
Boy are you kids in trouble. When Prof Spear gets back to class your going to get a lecture on white privilege for sure. Better read up now.