If you don't know the shot, keep your mouth shut

So the new Star Trek movie comes out tomorrow and while I was in the grocery store I picked up the Newsweek that had the U.S.S. Enterprise on the cover. As a Trekker, I bought a copy and brought it home.

I have read all the same articles before over the years. How Star Trek has a vision of hope for the future, how things from Star Trek are now used today in our everyday lives, how the characters from the show are allegorical to this and that from our lives. Blah, blah, blah. These kind of things come out every ten years or so, and I've read them all.

However, this latest article that I read yesterday in Newsweek titled "We're all Trekkers Now" made me fume, because, whoever wrote this... you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

I am not going to get political, I am not saying I am a fan of the Bush 43 Administration, but get your head out of your fucking ass whoever wrote this article. This is what he wrote about Star Trek's Prime Directive (which means that the crew of the Enterprise won't interfere with the development of any planet they come in contact with) and how that compares to the Bush and Obama Administrations and how they go about dealing with foreign countries.

And I quote...

"With the willfully hegemonic Bush administration now gone, the tenets of Roddenberry's fictional universe feel very much in step with current events. Whether you're happy about it or not, the Obama foreign policy, at least for now, emphasizes cross-cultural exchange and eschews imperialistic swagger. That sounds very much in sync with the Federation's Prime Directive, which stipulates that humanity should observe but never interfere with alien cultures (no Iraq-style invasions, in other words)."

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat! Did you ever watch the fucking show!? They CONSTANTLY broke the Prime Directive. When Kirk gave Tyree's men the firesticks so they could fight off the other villagers the Klingon's were helping, when they beamed down to Sigma Iotia II and by the end of the episode it was determined that Kirk would come back once a year to get a "cut" of their profits to give to the Federation, when the natives of such and such a planet worshipped a god that took care of them and Kirk didn't think they should do that so he ordered the ship's phasers to kill their god so the natives could then live with self-determined lives instead of serving a god.

I could go on and on.

Obama's a great guy, but so far he's no Captain Kirk. I don't see Obama ordering us into a soverign country to take over (a kind of thing Kirk did a lot of), and I don't see Obama having sex with green women which Kirk did do.

All I'm saying is that the guy that wrote this article about Star Trek and how it applies to the current administration can kiss my ass 'cause he doesn't know what the FUCK he is talking about.

Honestly if you don't know what you're talking about, shut up. Really, shut up.

And I stand by every word I've written, because it's true.

Capt. Kurt