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SWChris

@SWChrisCreative

I like memes and games. This account used to explore religion and politics, hopefully respectfully. Hit me if I start monologuing. Engagements ≠ Endorsements.

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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@JamesRaxz I think you're assuming a little too much here. Legacy fizzled because Kurtzman was jealous, and Prodigy was marketed to children and wasn't a mainline Trek for adults. The era is not the issue. Good writing and good characters will appeal across all adult ages.
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Rowdy Rick Robinson
Rowdy Rick Robinson@RowdyRick73·
@SWChrisCreative @MattLovesVinyl liberalism perverted leads to social agendas being pushed - that was stil the precursor to this, because too many people weaponized those messages rather than learning them.
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Rowdy Rick Robinson@RowdyRick73·
I've watched all of "Nu-Trek," as it's called today. I'll be blunt, being too "woke" isn't the problem for the Kurtzman era -- that's always been there. There has been hate for every iteration of Trek for a variety of reasons, including Earth being a socialist utopia. TNG was a carbon copy of TOS in season 1, and season 2 wasn't much better -- DS9 was really dark, and I didn't enjoy it as much in its first run as I do today The real reason they lost the fan base wasn't a gay Klingon in a skirt; it was lazy writing. One Trek Hill had the same baggage as Disco. The premise of The Burn was weak and poorly explained. Starfleet protocol was nonexistent, and at times the show felt like Lower Decks meets Police Academy 7—if that's the story you want to tell, bill it that way, and they will come. As long as the showrunners want blockbuster effects more than they want compelling stories, any new version of Trek is going to fail. I think we have reached Trek Fatigue again, and it may be time to shelve it until people who understand the universe are put back in charge.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@RowdyRick73 @MattLovesVinyl I think the critical theory part of it started coming in via TNG to be honest. I’d call elements of TNG proto-woke. But that was more in the first two seasons before Roddenberry died. Then it skewed back toward liberal until Discovery. My impression of it anyways
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Rowdy Rick Robinson@RowdyRick73·
It kinda did, though -- the old world had to die in nuclear fire to make way for the new one. Only after the oppressors were all dead did we find our way to utopia. Just because the word woke didn't exist yet didn't mean the ideology wasn't present; it was. They just threaded the needle to try to stay on the air
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@RowdyRick73 @MattLovesVinyl The kiss is liberal. Liberalism says that power is visible, ppl are not blind, and reason can adjudicate differences. That is the ethos of TOS & TNG. The kiss is a use of reason to show skin color changes nothing inherent to intimacy.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@RowdyRick73 @MattLovesVinyl The kiss was not woke. Problem here is equivocation. People are meaning different things by the word. Woke is about society being divided into oppressed/oppressor groups, privileged people are blind, so we must let the marginalized dismantle unjust systems. TOS didn’t have that
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@BobbyBorkIII Did you ever watch The Acolyte? Cause if you want to try to one up yourself I have a suggestion. :)
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Robert Bork III@BobbyBorkIII·
I am a conservative and I watched the whole show. It was the worst television I've ever seen, and I've watched Supernatural.
Cedar | #1 Doctor fan🖖@LtHarcrow

Of course #StarfleetAcademy was cancelled due to the massive outpouring of negative reviews from conservative whiners who didn’t even watch the show. Par for the course in 2026.

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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
This is true. Despite all the sturm und drang here, Starfleet Academy’s cancellation had little to do with “wokeness”. It’s a plausible reason for why the ratings were low, but it was cancelled for low ratings, not being woke. I think it was due to bad writing myself. 🤷
Sci-Fi World Museum@hollywoodscifi

This is just our opinion, but it's based on friends in the industry and who work at Paramount. STAR TREK STARFLEET ACADEMY being canceled, has nothing to do with reviews or fan hate. Producer Alex Kurtzman's contract expires, and they want a new start, so they canceled all his shows. The show is expensive, 100 mil per season, and the ratings weren't brilliant. Let's see what happens next!

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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff That’s entirely fair. Sorry I misunderstood. Happy to have the conversation tho.
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Jabool@Jaboolie·
@SWChrisCreative @ryancduff I dont think anyone in particular should "judge" her. What she and her husband do don't bother me. My qualm was with the notion that young men considering the sexual pasts of their potential wives is not un-christian as many are implying.
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Ryan Duff
Ryan Duff@ryancduff·
The reaction to this post is a prime example of why the way is narrow and few find it. From “you shouldn’t share this” to “Christianity has a marketing issue”… the gross misunderstanding of grace and newness of life is lost on most. Christianity is too radical for the masses. It’s why they sought to crucify Jesus and why they’ll eliminate the two witnesses on revelation. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff I also believe there is a requirement for prudence in these matters. I think my point above is that there is really no way we can be in a position to judge her case. But the principle of being prudent about who should marry or be trusted itself is well founded.
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Jabool@Jaboolie·
I don't think she should be praised. My point is that people conflate spiritual forgiveness and how a society best operates. A pedophile rapist may somehow genuinely repent and enter heaven. Miracles happen. But that doesn't mean society should be expect to pretend the pedophile rapist is the same as any other person. Same with a promiscuous woman. Same with a serial liar. Same with a conman. Each one of these people could repent and find grace, but that doesn't mean it's wrong or un-christian to be wary of trusting the liar, or do business with the conman, etc. For some reason unconditional "resetting" of relations ONLY applies to sexual immorality, and we acknowledge it would be insane to apply it to basically any other circumstance.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@ItIsHoeMath @wokal_distance @christopherrufo Bro everything that comes after “if” is not what he is saying. You’ve gazed into the palantir for too long. You saw far, but now you are seeing only the worst constructions of possible realities. The enemy has turned your gift into a curse.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff On that day I met him, that man was closer to the kingdom of God than any self righteous legalistic poaster in that husband’s thread is right now. I thought you were one of them. My apologies.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff When I see people dragging that lady it’s like they’re dragging me for doing what I was supposed to do. In one of my support groups I met a non-offending pedophile. He had never acted on it but was deathly afraid of doing so. He voluntarily kept away from kids and got help.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff The repentant rapist obviously. Are you more upset with the formerly promiscuous woman here being uplifted by her husband or the fact that some Christians have a double standard?
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Jabool
Jabool@Jaboolie·
Which man enters heaven: The repentant rapist or the unrepentant cheater? Raping is worse than cheating on a test, in the same way that fucking 100 men os worse than telling a white lie. The point is that you can't say in one breath "You have to treat someone as if their sin never happened" with the promiscuous woman but apply a completely different standard to other sins.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff No, man. The wages of sin is death but that doesn’t mean cheating is as bad as r*pe, or worse, that r*pe is only as bad as cheating. Grace covers it all, but that’s due to the power of Christ to cover all sin no matter how evil, not because all sin is equal.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff Each worker is paid the same no matter the lateness of the hour at which they began working. You seem to want to have it the other way.
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SWChris@SWChrisCreative·
@Jaboolie @ryancduff But the gospel is scandalous in that Christ pays for that punishment for us when we repent and turn away from those things. This is the message of the parable of the workers in the vineyard.
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