tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post8722586334409628154..comments2024-03-27T16:02:25.334-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: Ashbery TrekMichael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-75379458115181879402019-03-12T02:29:26.739-05:002019-03-12T02:29:26.739-05:00Star Trek?
If you drink enough of it, you begin to...Star Trek?<br /><i>If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.</i><br /><i>It's insidious.</i><br /><i>Just like the Federation.</i><br />The Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-12557956113442572972019-03-11T16:24:12.739-05:002019-03-11T16:24:12.739-05:00To say nothing of my mentioning John Ashbery. :)To say nothing of my mentioning John Ashbery. :)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-83538971295251229022019-03-11T14:01:52.120-05:002019-03-11T14:01:52.120-05:00To defend my show:
To me they were more wives, as ...To defend my show:<br />To me they were more wives, as per the frontier mythos, than sex slaves, since the latter are for maximum profit through maximum turnover of customers, while the women don't share in the profit. <br /><br />For me "wives" reminds me, as the miners might have known, of the European folklore that sexual monogamy is contrary to nature.<br /><br />How queer: Your blog has mentioned Star Trek, yet you aren't flooded by fans!Sean Crawfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724844971087639706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-51604683891743256382019-03-10T17:19:53.660-05:002019-03-10T17:19:53.660-05:00P.S.: I’m surprised to learn that Wikipedia says C...P.S.: I’m surprised to learn that Wikipedia says Carmel is best known for this role. (And not for his role on <i>The Mothers-in-Law</i>?)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-71598125584631236442019-03-10T17:15:32.186-05:002019-03-10T17:15:32.186-05:00It was awful indeed. We tuned in late (after givin...It was awful indeed. We tuned in late (after giving up on <i>SNL</i>) and quit before the ending. I didn’t realize that Mudd was engaging in human trafficking, though in retrospect it seems obvious that bringing women to a distant planet to be wives would be human trafficking. (It was late, and confusing!)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-76118409508175989972019-03-10T15:20:40.297-05:002019-03-10T15:20:40.297-05:00My show! My show!
That's a great line and I lo...My show! My show!<br />That's a great line and I love that you isolated it.<br /><br />That's one of the worst episodes, though––a real time capsule of social ickiness:<br />Mudd is a human trafficker, selling women to men who work on a desolate mining planet, and these women are supposed to be worrying about their self-esteem?!?<br />"Am I pretty enough to be a sex slave?" <br /><br />Good news: <br />Mudd gets a fitting comeuppance in a later episode, "I, Mudd", when he's set himself up as lord of androids who do his every bidding, only to end up trapped with his multiple clones of his hateful ex-wife, who bullies him.<br />Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.com