As I sit in my underwear on my couch eating mint chocolate cookie ice cream out of the container and watching Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 Episode 9, it occurred to me that I can make this a learning experience. After all, Star Trek: The Next Generation takes place in the future, and one could make the assumption that they know more about science, language, society, etc.
* Never trust new technology.
*Women will always be treated as inferior and viewed as sex objects. Successful women are kind of bitchy, especially when they make a teeny-tiny mistake. If they are ambitious, then they will probably stab someone in the back to get what they want.
*Visitors probably have sinister, ulterior motives.
*If someone is blind, rather than fix their eyes through surgical means, we will have to install equipment in their brain, then they will have to wear a heavy-looking piece of metal equipment on their face all the time. This will conveniently be removed by bad people when these blind people are kidnapped.
*Men have beards for the same reason women paint their nails. Whatever that reason is, Dr. Crusher insists they are the same.
*Computers are going to get bigger than they are now, but they won't compute any faster.
*Dr. Beverly Crusher is a moron (probably because she is a woman). She can't even adequately define the term "alive"! Sheesh!
*There is a difference between women and viruses, but both are alive.
*Forcing exocomps to work is slavery. Using a tricorder is not an example of slavery.
*Administrators (such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) can be such a drag sometimes.
*Someday I will have an android as a best friend. He will be awesome.
On a related note:
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At least Next Gen was better, in its sexism, than the utter dullness of Deep Space Nine.
I enjoyed that link. I also liked this youtube clip someone posted there:
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Why is this in the show? What?