This is seriously so tone deaf, I don’t know where to start. Don’t name your initiative after the title of a chilling warning from TNG.
This week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted their desire to “make Star Trek real”—while unconsciously reminding us of what the utopian science fiction franchise is fundamentally about.
Their Tuesday event was the latest in Hegseth’s ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, which was held at SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas. (Itself a newly created town that takes its name from a term popularized by Star Trek.)
Neither Musk nor Hegseth seemed to recall that the “Arsenal of Freedom” phrase—at least in the context of Star Trek—is also the title of a 1988 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. That episode depicts an AI-powered weapons system, and its automated salesman, which destroys an entire civilization and eventually threatens the crew of the USS Enterprise. (Some Trekkies made the connection, however.)
Am I misremembering, didnt Musk get name-dropped in a star trek show?
He got name-dropped in Discovery. Not exactly something to boast about.
That’s the one, thanks for confirming.
Yes, unfortunately. It said he was a great, compared with other greats.
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Lucky for those in the know, that came from a mirror universe guy. ::: .
…can I have the exact quote? Or a clip of it? This is the kind of thing that needs to be seen to truly sink in.
Elon is, as demonstrated, happy to let that sink in.
Lorca (already a very unconventional Star Trek captain) asks if wants to be “remembered in history… alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane…or as a failed fungus expert, a selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others?”
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-elon-musk.html
Clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bgMCNXzNtE
That was the first clear sign that Lorca was from the Mirror Universe.
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That’s the particular universe he thinks he’s creating, clearly