ValueSubtracted

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It's really not that complicated. If a typical organization is presented with two equally-qualified candidates, one of whom is a minority (of any kind, not just a racial minority), the organization will hire the non-minority candidate nearly every time. DEI policies exist to combat that sort of institutional bigotry.

For me, it's hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this:

Spock dancing atop Paramount Mountain, with one hand on his chest, his other hand flashing the Vulcan salute, and his eyes blissfully closed.

It was great. I had a ball doing that. And I mean, again, during the “Star Trek” world, it’s lovely people, and it was nothing but pleasure, and it was a dream wish fulfillment for me to be able to be in “Star Trek.” I play a very interesting, complicated guy, bad guy, I suppose. I’m a bad guy. Yeah, I guess I’m a bad guy. But yeah, so I dunno what more I can say about that without giving too much away.

I’m in more than one episode. I have a little arc through this season. I reappear and become more problematic as the show goes on.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think the only path forward is for journalists to get serious about defining and protecting their job. No government is going to step in to do it because of the optics, but many sectors have colleges that define and enforce standards of behaviour.

It's time for journalists to step up and do the same.

I don’t doubt that this is true on balance

I know the questions keep coming up (and it's totally fair play), but...I don't have the impression that it's had any sort of impact on the electorate. Maybe I'm wrong.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't doubt that this is true on balance, but the Danielle Smith jokes practically write themselves...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess it's possible that it was a Liberal plant, but it has big "man vandalizes own house" energy.

 

Young, who was born in Ottawa and worked in puppetry for over 50 years, produced Under the Umbrella Tree from 1987 to 1993 and portrayed Gloria Gopher, one of the show's main characters.

They had no time at all - filming was already complete.

They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the word "movie" is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour "event" episode.

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