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Stacy Abrams appears in Star Trek Discovery season 4 finale. Proceeds to piss off alt the right people [Discovery S4 finale spoilers]

DrForester

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Towards the end of the episode, we are introduced to the United Earth President, played by Abrams. And it was a pretty lengthy scene too, not just a quick cameo and a line. Anyways, the "wHy Is StAr TrEk So WoKe?!" crowd is naturally angry, which makes the appearance even better.

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Also posting this because Wilson Cruz is the most photogenic person on the planet.
 
Slayven

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They would let a Black Woman run things when everything is fucked up
 
Divvy

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Loved seeing her. It's a bit on the nose, but Discovery isn't exactly a subtle show haha
 
Wrexis

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Wilson Cruz is just unfair lol. Here's a few more cameos btw.



It's hilarious how badly the right wingers are reacting to this.

Plus in Star Trek Picard this week there was a reference that all Federation people seem to have vaccination chips, and that's sending the alt Star Trek reddit into a fit.
 

QuigleyMcShine

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She's apparently a huge Trekkie and apparently insisted on being able to do her scene without getting spoiled on the season she was going to be in.
 
Slayven

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Wrexis said:
Wilson Cruz is just unfair lol. Here's a few more cameos btw.



It's hilarious how badly the right winger are reacting to this.
Plus in Star Trek Picard this week there was a reference that all Federation people seem to have vaccination chips, and that's sending the alt Star Trek reddit into a fit.
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Do these people watch Star Trek for the phaser noises? It's like the chuds that say comics were never potlical
 
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DrForester

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Divvy said:
Loved seeing her. It's a bit on the nose, but Discovery isn't exactly a subtle show haha
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Star Trek is well known for diveristy in casting, but it's kind of amazing how far Discovery has gone with it. A major franchise, and I really can't think of any show with a more diverse cast.
 
ClivePwned

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it's not like these people watch Discovery. They go on every Star Trek video about every other Star Trek to tell you they don't watch Star Trek Discovery or Picard.

also, they're the same twats that claim TOS was never progressive or political.
 
The_Iceman2288

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Stacey Abrams is a HUGE fucking nerd who is obsessed with Doctor Who so it only makes sense that she pops up in Star Trek.
 
Divvy

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Wrexis said:
Wilson Cruz is just unfair lol. Here's a few more cameos btw.



It's hilarious how badly the right wingers are reacting to this.

Plus in Star Trek Picard this week there was a reference that all Federation people seem to have vaccination chips, and that's sending the alt Star Trek reddit into a fit.
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Love seeing all the Star Trek canon-purists get upset over every little thing. Meanwhile I'm just enjoying all the hand grenades Lower Decks throws into the canon every week.

Khanimus said:
Star Trek has never been subtle lol
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That's very fair lol

DrForester said:
Star Trek is well known for diveristy in casting, but it's kind of amazing how far Discovery has gone with it. A major franchise, and I really can't think of any show with a more diverse cast.
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Yup, love to see it

MinerArcaniner said:
Nothing like people calling Star Trek "too woke" with no sense of irony whatsoever.
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There isn't a bigger bunch of losers than conservative Star Trek fans
 
L Thammy

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DrForester said:
Star Trek is well known for diveristy in casting, but it's kind of amazing how far Discovery has gone with it. A major franchise, and I really can't think of any show with a more diverse cast.
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Star Trek depicts the future of humanity as a whole, and even as it pushed the expectations of diversity on TV, humanity as a whole isn't as white as classic Trek.
 
Fuzzy

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I'm surprised they haven't had AOC do voice work with her hero on Prodigy yet.
 
Wrexis

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The_Iceman2288 said:
Stacey Abrams is a HUGE fucking nerd who is obsessed with Doctor Who so it only makes sense that she pops up in Star Trek.
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Apparently one of the conditions of her appearing was that no-one on the cast or crew was allowed to spoil anything that happened this season.
She wanted to experience it as normal!

Slayven said:
Do these people watch Star Trek for the phaser noises? It's like the chuds that say comics were never potlical
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All the usual Phantom Menace YouTubers are having breakdowns over this. Some are even personally attacking Abrams.
They're not even trying to pretend to hide it at this point.
 
BourbonAFC

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Gotta love the irony of dipshit alt right Star Trek fans being Trekkies in the first place given the core values of the franchise.
 
Nooblet

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I don't know who she is, looks like she's a politician. What's so "woke" about it? Seems like people will just complain about anything. Maybe stunt casting, but that's not new to Trek but what's woke about having another black woman in a show led by a black woman and full of minorities?

For someone who doesn't know who she is, she just came in to say yes we'll rejoin federation and it felt like s triumphant moment. Didn't think anything else of it.
 
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Nooblet said:
I don't know who she is, looks like she's a politician. What's so "woke" about it? Seems like people will just complain about anything.

For someone who doesn't know who she is, she just came in to say yes we'll rejoin federation and it felt like s triumphant moment. Didn't think anything else of it.
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she's basically one of the reasons trump didnt get a second term... at least not YET :(
 
Rice Eater

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I have a co worker that's always blasting right wing radio in the room that he works in. He's alone and it's loud in there so they let him do this. Anyways I hear the radio guy complaining about what gives her the right to be president of the Earth.

I didn't hear anything that pointed to him talking about a woman so I thought it was actually about Biden from Zelensky's speach. I later saw tweets about Abrams being President on Star Trek last night on Twitter and finally put it together lol.

Those host were really upset about this. One dude just kept going on about how he doesn't understand what gives her the right to be president of the world šŸ¤£
 

Muetsch

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I'm not into Star Trek, haven't watched anything except the two newest movies and the one with baby Tom Hardy but even I know that's just how it is?

Like they had the first interracial kiss (I think? Please correct me if I'm wrong!) on TV. Can you imagine what fucking racist meltdowns that lead to back then and how bad it would be with Youtube, Twitter and Reddit?
 
KtotheRoc

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I don't recall the right wing getting upset when Patrick Leahy appeared in various Batman productions. I wonder why? šŸ¤”
 
ezekial45

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Star Trek Discovery is the highest rated show on Paramount Plus, so these angry right-wing chuds can stay mad all they want. This cameo from Abrams was like Discovery's victory lap. This recent season was pretty great.
 
Geode

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I'm not surprised they're not more upset at the fact there's a president of the world in the future. Aren't most of these alt-right, right chuds anti-globalization, pro-nationalist?
 
Psychotext

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I thought the final ep was a bit shit...

...but it definitely wasn't for this (I don't even know who she is!).

Edit - Oh, shit, yes I do. Final ep now infinitely better than I thought it was!
 
DenverCo

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I thought this show was not good going by what I've heard. Is show worth watching? I've only seen next generation.
 
ezekial45

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DenverCo said:
I thought this show was not good going by what I've heard. Is show worth watching? I've only seen next generation.
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The show had some stumbles, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's terrible or horrible.Discovery had a far better start to its series than the likes of TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise. It definitely improved as it went on, as is the usual with Star Trek. This recent season was pretty great, and it's in a setting that's totally new for Star Trek.

It's also the most well produced Star Trek show ever made, it looks stunning. So yeah, give it a shot.
 
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MinerArcaniner said:
Nothing like people calling Star Trek "too woke" with no sense of irony whatsoever.
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Yeah, wtf? It's been "woke" from the start. Black people and women have been in positions of power all throughout the different shows and (I'm assuming) movies, yet somehow, a Black woman as president is going too far? As if it was never a possibility in the entire time that Star Trek has been a thing?
 
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DrForester

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DenverCo said:
I thought this show was not good going by what I've heard. Is show worth watching? I've only seen next generation.
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It starts a bit rough (like most Trek shows), but it finds it's footing quickly in season 2, and season 3 has a pretty major shake up to the status quo (for the better). The cast is quite good, especially once they start letting the supporting cast do more.

It is VERY serialized though, not an episode of the week think like Next Gen was.
 
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