Acceptance And Tolerance - The Trekkie Way...

Trekkies are the most accepting peeps and geeks in all of dweebland (or is that dweeb la-la-land?) - don't you know that by now?

That is perhaps due to the fact that they all hope to be, one day, promptly able to say "beam me up" - and it will happen too!

Some trekkies (they prefer "trekkers" I think - I shall use "trekkies" ;) do really believe that the future is in another galaxy, somewhere "out there", where no man has gone before. Yeah, really. Once we've adapted to a cosmic scale our execrable habits to consume and waste, we'll go about it on a planetary scale, yeah. We'll ditch this old troublesome "mother earth" and seek a new planet to live on, exploit, abuse, pollute, drain of all its natural resources, eliminate every last one of the exotic life to be found upon there and thoroughly lay waste to - before we throw it away and start anew elsewhere! After awhile, I dare hope, the human race will get such a bad rep all throughout the universe (not the multiverse and much less "the federation") that all other alien races (all two or three of them - in a best-case scenario) will gang up on us and lay waste to OUR wretched abusive species!

Do you REALLY think that you DESERVE to live on and spread the pollutive ways all across the cosmos, nerdy ones? If the apocalypse comes, and the planet DIES, be BRAVE (for once - and don't think "like Kirk" here; I mean REALLY BRAVE! Like a Masada hebrew or an Atlantis illuminati!) yes, be brave and face the end LIKE A MAN! DON'T think of escaping your fate - especially since you've had it ALL coming! And you sure deserve it (much more than the poor saps in Pompeii did!)
Yes, you techies and other trekkies out there are a full-fledged INTEGRAL PART OF THE PROBLEM! And you simply MUST PAY THE PRICE, when the time comes! You've contributed in polluting in all sorts of ways (new and novel ways were invented in the last 50 years BY YOUR KIND SPECIFICALLY! Don't deny it now!) so you have to take it on the chin when Armageddon comes a'knockin!

It cannot ALL be blamed on politicians, huge corporations' greed and zealots of all ilks, you know!

Verily, I know just what to tag your fearful kind as... Yup! You who are seeking refuge up there, in the stars, on some "undiscovered country" (eh?) that would turn out to be AN EXACT REPLICA OF EARTH (planet/project Genesis, maybe?) - and even if you were to be DEAD by then, you're hoping, deep down, that you'd get to be reborn on such a planet, just like Mr. Spock was (sheesh)... Well, DREAM ON, dudes and FORGET ABOUT IT! I liken your fearful, scaredy breed to the folks in Sodom and Gomorrah! Okay, make that Noah's neighbours then - cause I reserve, usually, the Sodom and Gomorrah comparison to the folks in Laval and Montreal! *LOL*

The ONLY GOOD THING about Trek, as far as I am concerned, is something it TRIED TO ACHIEVE - and still did not deliver at all on its goal there either! Trek, as conceptualized by Gene Rodenberry, wanted to bring the world together. All creeds, all races - all misbegotten forms of alien life forms too, which one can more than readily see as grotesque metaphors for the misshapen, the severely handicapped, the unsightly and the ostracized out there, in the "real world". The same thing that was attempted with those unbearable (and not-so uncanny, really) X-Men, whose very name seems to be embracing first and foremost the cause of transvestites worldwide... (sic)

In both cases, the attempt is honorable and to be lauded (not enough, though, to be found worthy enough of a spotlight on the laudable blog!)

However, in both cases, the facts are in and it is apparent that, after roughly 40 years of one and 30 of the other, the mission Roddenberry and the muties had given themselves has simply enough FAILED. No one is "more accepting" of "the vastly different other" - au contraire! Genocides are still happening and will continue to happen. Ostracism continues. People look funny at those that, in their poor and poorly-educated estimation, do "look funny"... Muties and trekkies may be accepted - but the handicapped, disfigured, socially-challenged, odd and "ugly" ones that they were simply SUBBING for ARE NOT! What's the point of the metaphor and the message it carries then - if said message does not achieve its original purpose?

Kids in the future will continue to do as those of the past 40 years - they will be accepting of the most outrageous creatures on film, on the TV screen, in their favorite magazines and comic-books, on their computer screens and trading cards (if those continue to exist much longer in the cyber age...!) - but at school and elsewhere, they will remain highly critical of the kid with an inordinate amount of zits on his face, a slightly asymmetrical configuration of facial traits or anything else that is just barely out of the humdrum ordinary! It could be apparent dandruff, greasy hair, big hands, skinny legs, big nose, little eyes, big ears, hair in all the wrong places... IT DOESN'T MATTER, REALLY! The slightest difference will ALWAYS be pointed out - while the most outrageously hideous alien on their silly, profoundly ridiculous favorite form of entertainment will be EMBRACED, ROOTED FOR AND EVEN ADULATED IN SOME CASES!

It boggles the mind, really...
The heights (and/or depths of ridicule) that the geeky hypocrisy of trekkies and other fanboys alike will reach (and in this even "hokey spiritualism-prone" Star Wars fans are guilty, also - yes!)

NO ONE WILL EVER BE MORE ACCEPTING - EVER!

It doesn't help either that the muties are always fighting amongst themselves in the most violent ways - and the trekkies' beloved Federation is always riled with internal strife as well... But such is the nature of the beasts that we have here: "X-Men" and "Star Trek" are in the business of ENTERTAINING first and foremost and a blissful utopian world does NOT make for entertaining stories, films of television series... For those to sell and endure, we need always the primal ingredient: CONFLICT! And so both franchises shoot themselves in the foot of their good intentions; boo-hoo!

So much for the "promise and hope for the future" that seeing a very gay George Takei sitting side-by-side with a geeky Walter Koenig displaying such an obviously bogus Russian accent while commandeering the starship 'Enterprise' ACTUALLY brought us all... eh?

About as much as having Han Solo pilot his Millennium Falcon with a giant gorilla for his co-pilot...
But that is another story...

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