• SARGEx117@lemmy.world
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    Well that’s what happens when you put fads and pop culture references in TV shows. They can become pretty dated pretty quick.

    I mean, imagine if one of the shows were to praise someone like, oh idk Elon musk… Oh wait…

    My headcannon is that like many things over the years, sports will come and go, and this is the new “retro thing that become ironically popular, then became legitimately popular again”

    And the engineers just happened to discover an unused space that perfectly fit those dimensions for the lanes, and DEFINITELY didn’t make the lanes the very first consideration and design the ship around them…

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        In star trek discovery, one of the characters puts him on the level of Wright brothers and Zefram Cochrane.

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          I can imagine Elon paying for this. I’m not saying he did, but I can imagine it.

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          I think it was actually clever ::: spoiler the character who references Musk is a mirror universe evil doppelganger. Him admiring Musk is one of several clues that he’s evil. :::

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            Full disclosure, I’ve not seen discovery. Didn’t want to pay for paramount+ and now that I know more about the general plot, I’m not interested. Same thing for most of the new shows.

            Love me some lower decks though.

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            You could read it as clever, if you want to be really kind. However, I don’t think anywhere near that much thought went into Discovery.