Peter Huestis: Definitely the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today:

Definitely the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today:

I am not a conspiracy theorist by nature. But for this specific case, I really think the simplest explanation is that this person wanted to show off her engagement ring to the widest possible audience, and her shortest path to this was an opinion so colossally head-assed that fox couldn’t say no

LMAO, I like your way of thinking.

I mean, her hand is facing the wrong way for the Vulcan greeting.

Pretty sure that's Vulcan for "fuck you"

Die Young and Toil

Oh my GOD I love that.

"Finger me like this"

The Spocker 🖖

oh no is that going to be next year's "most searched porn term" in red states on the map

it’s the mirror universe. Duh. 🤪 Given that Fox viewers live in their own reality, it fits.

Perfect skeet. No notes. Nothing more to see here.

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when you're going for geek cred but land on "I SAID YES!!!! 💍💍💍"

Us Lower Decks fans know it as the “sarcastic Vulcan salute”.

Must mean "die soon, in poverty."

That is the motto of American conservatism

Exactly!!

Does she know that not one but two Trek series have starred female captains?

And we are all rooting for a new series featuring Captain Seven!

Wait is this going to be a thing? @jerilryan.bsky.social?

Come on Star Trek: Legacy!!!!!!

Oh hells yeah!

Don't forget the Enterprise-C.

Sure, there have been plenty of female captains -- like the unnamed captain of the Saratoga at the beginning of STAR TREK IV.

I'll have to look again!

Three, btw, for a slightly flexible definition of 'starring'.

Yeah, Georgiou was captain at the start of DISCOVERY, and Janeway came back to sort-of captain the Protostar on PRODIGY. It gets complicated. But Trek sure is "feminist"!

I was thinking of Captain Freeman, actually. :)

And one was black!! 😱

This is the only possibility that is dumb enough to possibly be correct, in this most half-assedly stranger-than-fiction timeline.

That's not a conspiracy that's just plain ol' one woman subterfuge. Should have taken a page from Flava Flav and put her status symbol on a big chain. Instead she's doing a backwards Vulcan salute like someone's addled aunt. "Live short and wither! Am I doing it right?"

why not both

Yeah you're right.

Well if our conspiracy hats are on... you also don't have to be a trekkie just because you dislike something about star wars. Forcing this false choice reminds viewers that if you aren't all-in on [whatever the right wing is serving up today] you must therefore be on the other team [a commie]

Choosing a franchise is mandatory for all citizens

Ok, I choose Babylon 5.

Babylon 5 has no chance of winning the election. You're throwing your vote away!

Space 1999. That is all.

If you're in a swing state just remember a vote for Space 1999 is a vote for Star Wars

Battlestar Galactica!

I remember those times and it’s so wild to think of now

I think you've got it. Not only does she have no idea of the progressive roots of Star Trek, she's doing the Vulcan salute the wrong direction. No Trekkie would ever do that.

It's not conspiracy theory thinking to say a person has an ulterior motive. ;-)

Occams razor in 2024 is, “there’s a grift here somewhere”

This is it, chief

I mean, it is so clear she not only hasn't seen Star Trek, but she has barely even googled it.

This is the simplest possible explanation.

Star Trek "wokeness" isn't new either. bsky.app/profile/ygal...

90s? Let me take you back to 1968 KIRK: You're black on one side and white on the other. BELE: I am black on the right side. KIRK: I fail to see the significant difference.

The latest ones will probably make their heads explode bsky.app/profile/ygal...

Lately you don't even need to meme, just quote it

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