Star Trek's Radical Democratic Vision

In episode 1993, Jack and Miles are joined by English professor, author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, and host of Nerd from the Future, Ramzi Fawaz, to discuss… Trump Continues To Prove The Haters Right, Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE, The Right Is Trying To Claim Star Trek and more!

1. Trump: We've done more than any other administration has done by far—in terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars, nobody's really seen very much like it.
2. Trump: These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that's not happening because we have the hottest country.
3. Trump: I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could have done some damage. But you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain.
4. Trump: "Your lover isn't going to be killed anymore, so you can act like a real lover. You can walk right through the middle of the town. And DC is beautiful again too."
5. Minneapolis PD Says Off Duty Officers (Of Color) Being Targeted by ICE
6. William Shatner eats a bowl of cereal while driving and more star snaps
7. William Shatner boldly devours cereal while driving his SUV in Studio City
8. Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion
9. William Shatner Pokes Fun at Stephen Miller for Calling on Him to Control ‘Star Trek’ Franchise
10. How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing
11. ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Debuts With Positive Reviews And Political Nonsense
12. Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons
13. "Star Trek is inherently right wing and Christian and no amount of modern rewriting or changing of canon can remove that."
14. Elon Musk and Stephen Miller’s culture war against Star Trek is built on ignorance
15. Hollywood Flashback: ‘Star Trek’ Showed TV’s First Interracial Kiss in 1968
16. How ‘Star Trek’ Survived the Vietnam Era and Took Over the World

17. Star Trek's Prime Directive Had A Grim Real-Life Inspiration

18. William Shatner responds after Ted Cruz says Captain Kirk was likely a Republican

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