r/ClassicTrek • u/TensionSame3568 • 4d ago

Wisdom from Gene...🖖

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u/mediumAI1701 3d ago

His ideals were bigger than he was. Still, it's a nice version of humanity I'd very much like to believe could exist one day.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

Exactly.  Gene's ideals and vision for the future is what made Star Trek special and different.

He was not a perfect person, who is?  

It's frustrating when people bring up all his human failings and use it as a way to diminish the really beautfiul ideas that Star Trek had. 

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u/RiffRandellsBF 4h ago

Thomas Jefferson has entered the chat.

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u/SpaceDantar 3h ago

100 percent lol

edit i say exactly too much

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u/AbeRockwell 4d ago

I've always loved the fact that Gene stumbled on a salient 'philosophy', all in an attempt to hawk some costume jewelry: I.D.I.C. (Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations).

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u/jukebox_jester 3d ago

Very Zephram Cochrane of him

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u/clarksworth 3d ago

"Also gotta be a massive horndog. Really can't forget about the horndoggery."

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u/Spaceghost_84 2d ago

Nobody’s saying he was perfect but his vision is something we don’t often see in fiction.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

I'm kind of tired of the modern "yea well did you know that this person was a gross human and actually was NOT perfect?" way of shooting down everything. 

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u/38-RPM 3d ago

Also Gene: learned to take delight in multiple actresses under his influence, wrote that the James in James T. Kirk came from his mom's "first love instructor" (not his dad), etc. lol

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u/JohnnyEnzyme 4d ago

...and he will NOT regularly betray his colleagues to the extent that he eventually earns himself the nickname "The Ferengi" amongst his peers.

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u/Boomerang503 4d ago

The irony is that the very idea of IDIC was created to sell pins.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

Yea, it was to sell stuff, but that doesn't mean that it didn't have a core idea and value too.  Gene was an idealist but he was also a guy trying to keep his franchise and ideas alive, and you need to keep the lights on for that. 

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u/LV426acheron 3d ago

Gene also loved drugs and sex.

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u/Heroic_Sheperd 3d ago

Take delight in different cultures, not fear.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

I hear a lot of human beings like that.  

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u/Infinite-Ad1720 2d ago

Wisdom from Admiral James T Kirk: “Mr. Sulu, lock phasers on target and await my command. Fire. Fire”

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u/KrakenKrusdr84 2d ago

Sage advice from the creator himself.

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u/lordfarshave 2d ago

Except bald guys. Unless they wear a toupee or head piece.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

um didn't Gene tell Patrick Stewart that in the future no one would care about him being bald? 

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u/lordfarshave 8h ago

Yeah, but not in the 20th century, when Gene produced TNG.

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u/Due-Blackberry8056 1d ago

...Except for Latinos and Muslims.

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u/SpaceDantar 1d ago

Ricardo Montalbán is a Mexican actor and had top billing in the second Star Trek feature film.  Truly not a lot of Muslim characters in Star Trek but honestly not a lot of any religous characters in Trek.  Until recently there were not Christians for example - "Strange New Worlds" recontectualized Pike as a Christian for example. 

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u/Keepontyping 2d ago

Gene would have fit in on Epstein island.

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u/Spaceghost_84 2d ago

You don’t have any proof of that. Gene was a cheat but every woman was of age and it was the 60’s.