They just heard "Eugenics Wars" and got a little too excited
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!
They didn't say which part of StarTrek.
Y'all think they are talking about Starfleet, but they are talking about making that Hitler planet.
I'm guessing it'll be less Star Trek and more The Expanse - corporations owning everything and no public civic positions.
Kegsbreath and Space Karen are probably the two most tone deaf, incomprehensibly incompetent individuals that I've ever known. This is just more proof of how absolute bellends with no critical thinking skills can fail upward and cause untold damage; yet defying all odds, they still reach positions of power that unlock their ability to cause massive amounts of damage. Fucking wild.
Okay, so they're aiming for the Eugenics Wars, then World War III...
Or maybe they mean the Terran Empire of the Mirror Universe. That seems more consistent with their behaviour.
This is like the tech broligarchs using references to Tolkien while propping up a fascist regime and trying to forge one AGI to rule us all.
I'm actually fairly confident they do recall and know exactly what the title / phrase connotates.
It's too on the nose to be accidental.
You think these are people of culture?
Star Trek but without the show's lessons....isn't that basically just the Dominion from DS9?
Look, I want Jeffrey Combs as Secretary of War.
And also Secretary of Treasury
Why stop there? Jeffrey Combs can be the entire cabinet.
Nah you gotta have one Damar on the cabinet with the rest being Weyouns.
We need Brunt, FCA, in charge of Treasury.
What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?
"A Star Trek convention"
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.
.spoiler
Lucky for those in the know, that came from a mirror universe guy.
spoiler
That's the particular universe he thinks he's creating, clearly
...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.
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
That was the first clear sign that Lorca was from the Mirror Universe.
Well, that's absolutely fucked. Almost same level of fucked as you know who being in Home Alone 2. But damn, this is fucked.
Elon is, as demonstrated, happy to let that sink in.
JJ902 reference in 2026??