• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So I’d completely wiped this from my memory … but Elon Musk is Star Trek canon now?

    Like even if Musk doesn’t do anything justifying him being remembered by Starfleet … in the Star Trek timeline … he did??

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      1 year ago

      SpaceX pretty much kept US Spaceflight alive between the time of the Space Shuttle, and… whatever comes out next. Tesla corporation has proven to the rest of the car manufacturers, and other startups, that the way of the future is not via burning fossil fuels.

      Elon showed the world what a shitheel he was after that.

      So, I’m pretty sure that this dialogue was written before Elon became the obvious shitheel that he is now. And, as many point out, mirror universe Elon Musk might’ve been even more instrumental to their world, than ours.

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        1 year ago

        It was really disappointing and cringy. I thought the show came out after the Thailand cave incident where he said people who were helping rescue trapped children were only in the country because they were pedophiles, but I just looked up the dates and the first season of Discovery came out a year before that incident. I waited a while to get Paramount+ because I didn’t want yet another streaming service on top of Netflix and Hulu.

        The Musk references aged very quickly. It’s not great to name off living people as future historic figures when they are still alive and able to wreck their legacies.

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          The cave thing was worse than you remember: he got in an argument on twitter with a guy telling him how dumb the submarine idea was, so the smart reply was to call the guy a sex tourist… and it was obviously the cave expert called in to supervise the entire rescue.

          Nevermind how that was an ad hominem to begin with lol.

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      1 year ago

      Also on Discovery, Tilly mentioned attending Musk Junior High School, so yeah, apparently. Both of these mentions would have been before he bought Twitter, I’m not sure if the writers would be so quick to name drop him today.

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      1 year ago

      This is a bit of a spoiler, but the guy who mentions Musk is actually from the evil mirror universe. So the second guy from the mainline universe is confused as to why Musk is on that list. He was probably a bigger figure in the mirror universe.

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        1 year ago

        Eh. There are a bunch of other references to him even after Lorca returns to his universe. For example Tilly was on musk high school iirc.

        I don’t think I was ever more ashamed and disappointed of trek than when they whipped out those lines, billionaire worship in a show about a socialist utopia. A fucking embarrassment