What you got from Star Trek....

[QuasarVM]

If you thought it was a conduit for liberal thinking you wouldn't of wasted your time with it????????????????? Yes liberal thinking is evil evil evil!!!
If you look up Liberal *spit hiss filthy word* it means broad minded. If you look up conservative it means preferring to stay the same old stinky way and not open to change. Whether Star Trek meant to be "liberal" or not.... I don't know...but is sure came across that way in any case.

HAHAHAHA!!! Broad minded?

Please.

Again, TOS is not really liberal...at least not in the modern sense. Today's liberals would let the Klingons overrun the Federation and then learn to speak Klingonese so as not to offend them.

I have a VERY hard time seeing James T Kirk go along with that kind of thinking.

Sorry if you're pissed or offended, but I'm a diehard conservative and proud of it! I make no apologies for that either.

I see you didn't look it up! I'm not pissed or offended...just sarcastic..... But TOS is completely liberal...hello..... they had a freak alien and black woman in full view on the bridge...and that's just the tip of the ole iceberg......but it's clear that we're going to have to agree to disagree since I'm one of those flaming liberals and very proud of it! However, I don't subscribe to doctrine just because it's labeled liberal...I judge each issue seperately and independently...I can bet that we actually (probably, maybe ) will even agree on some things & issues.... can you imagine that!

I'm sure we can, Cakes.

 

[Anji]

Star Trek portrayed an optimistic future where everyone is created and treated as equals. If that is being liberal, so be it.

But I don't see anything wrong with treating your fellow human being with respect and dignity. Seems to me those should be traits people live by regardless of their political views.

Star Trek taught me to be open minded...probably the greatest lesson I have ever learned. And it has served me well throughout my life.

 

[Shatmandu]

Star Trek taught me to be loyal to my friends, to honor my commitments, to be open-minded, and to have sex with robots.

Joe, tetanused

 

[Gary7]

It also taught me that if a train is coming and my friend is standing its path, to shove him aside and take the hit for him, rather than just pulling him off the tracks where we'd both be safe.

 

[Praetor]

It taught me that faking your death and pretending to be a Romulan is the best way to avoid blame.

 

[QuasarVM]

It taught me to beware of Romulans bearing gifts.

 

[StephanieFaith]

I first watched Star Trek as a child in the 80's, together with my sister, fish 'n' chips on our laps, there in front of the box. We'd invent games of travelling to unknown planets with our own transporter (the first landing on the stairs!) And were fascinated by Spok's Ears. Now (a few years later) and together with a Trekkie, I've been re~introduced to the original series and ~ I never thought this would happen, as I deemed it a children's thing! ~ really like it.

 

[John Vasiliou]

I'm that said Trekie lol

Well I grew up watching it on the CBC in Canada ,and loved it.

I might have been to young at the time to really get the social message of the episodes ,but the visuals kept my interest.

Now as an adult I get the issues they were trying too get across.

What I got ,and liked about star trek is it really is the only positive portrayal of the future on film.

And it's still cool to watch.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It also taught me that if a train is coming and my friend is standing its path, to shove him aside and take the hit for him, rather than just pulling him off the tracks where we'd both be safe.

It taught me to let my girlfiend get hit by a truck, if its for the greater good.

 

[T'Bonz]

It taught me to beware of Romulans bearing gifts.

What I got when I began watching it as a young teen. Hope. Hope that we wouldn't annihilate ourselves in a nuclear holocaust and not only would we get past that, but we would prosper, explore the stars and meet other types of life.

It was a powerful thing to me, in a time (1971) when hope wasn't as easy, just having come out of the tumultuous late 1960s.

 

[Warped9]

Nerys Myk, your avatar is a riot. Supes with a streak of Hancock in him.

 

[Gary7]

There's a few shots of Superman tossing back a cold one, floating around the Internet. Here's another:
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/chris-reeve-movies4/Superevil_002.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cTyxNZrG0

 

[Sky]

I taught myself English just to be able to read Trek lit. What I got was a weird vocabulary.