Flying Squid@lemmy.worldcake to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 years agoNot even a ridge on their head or anything?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down10
arrow-up1204arrow-down1imageNot even a ridge on their head or anything?lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldcake to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squareMNByChoice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoI always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing. In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle. This is all assumption though.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-22 years agoA lot of people think that’s what it was. That said, TNG started in 1997 1987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoSo you’re saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR
minus-squareGregorech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years ago1987, bit of a typo there my guy.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThe Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.
minus-squareMNByChoice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoTrust is super interesting!
I always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing.
In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle.
This is all assumption though.
A lot of people think that’s what it was.
That said, TNG started in
19971987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.So you’re saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
…
Yes.
Yes I am.
Yeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR
1987, bit of a typo there my guy.
Yeah, I fixed it.
The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.
Trust is super interesting!