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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday January 16 2017, @01:05AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday January 16 2017, @01:05AM (#454216) Homepage

    Space niggers (Klingons), Space Jews (Ferengi), Space Chinks (Romulans and Vulcans); what's not to love?

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @02:47AM (#454240)

    Klingons are Black People. Kazon are Niggers. There's a difference. Even the Borg didn't want the niggers.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday January 16 2017, @03:00AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday January 16 2017, @03:00AM (#454246) Homepage

      The Borg had plenty of niggers, they're just hard to see under all that Whiteface makeup.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @03:10AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @03:10AM (#454250)

        Kazon were the Delta Quadrant niggers the Borg refused to assimilate because even the "assimilate everything that moves" Borg had standards.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:30PM (#454917)

        Odd, I thought the romulans and vulcans and such were so designed to reflect a modernized Greek mythology.

        Many of the inspirations were based on cultures, since the entire universe couldn't just be white women for Kirk to chase. There can't be hot green women if the universe is filled with ethanol-fueled ships...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @09:21PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @09:21PM (#455075)

          You're right of course, Vulcan logic is Greek stoicism.

          The greatest allegorical brilliance of Star Trek was having three superpowers at cold war with each other, so when the Cold War ended in real life, the Klingons could become allies while conflict with the Romulans continued.

          Three superpowers in competition in the same quadrant strengthened all three powers, which was alluded to in Star Trek V, and the Alpha Quadrant powers stopped any solitary superpower from conquering the entire galaxy, as seen whenever the Borg or the Dominion tried to invade.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday January 18 2017, @06:51PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday January 18 2017, @06:51PM (#455604) Homepage Journal

    Most trolls post anonymously, asshole.

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    mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @01:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @01:42AM (#455834)

      Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled.

      Eth-fool is too fucking dumb to bypass an IP Subnet ban.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Monday January 23 2017, @09:00PM

      by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Monday January 23 2017, @09:00PM (#457800)

      As repugnant as I may find many of Ethanol's comments to be I have to respect that he is willing to put his name on his comments, unlike many who post similar, or worse, comments who hide behind the AC account.

      If you don't like what he says you can filter him. And while you can do the same with ACs you also loose out more since sometimes an AC post has a good point or useful information, and it might just be the poster doesn't have/forgot their login creds..

      Remember, censorship starts with people going after the extreme contents first, and then works it's way into the rest of the comments. Remember that line about "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out..." I would rather know that their are people who have such views, and let them speak them, than have them censored and angry that they can not speak their minds, because hidden hate festers, and becomes more dangerous than just spoken words,

      And the words that I live by "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

      --
      "Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 19 2017, @11:32PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday January 19 2017, @11:32PM (#456292)

    The Ferengi represent modern-day Americans. Profit uber alles fits perfectly with American philosophy. It's especially applicable to those who ascribe to Libertarianism.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @01:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @01:05AM (#456323)

      DATA: A comparison modern scholars have drawn from Earth history likens the Ferengi to the ocean-going Yankee traders of eighteenth and nineteenth century America, sir.
      RIKER: From the history of my forebears. Yankee traders.
      DATA: Who in this case sail the galaxy in search of mercantile and territorial opportunity.
      RIKER: And are those scholars saying the Ferengi may not unlike us?
      DATA: Hardly, sir. I believe this analogy refers to the worst quality of capitalists. The Ferengi are believed to conduct their affairs of commerce on the ancient principle caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware.
      RIKER: Yankee traders. I like the sound of that.
      DATA: Well, sir, I doubt they wear red, white and blue, or look anything like Uncle Sam.

      from season 1, the season nobody watched, when Patrick Steward himself was expecting TNG to flop.