Category: DEI
New ‘Star Trek’ DEI disaster flops despite airing for free: A ‘huge, gay, glee club middle finger’
Paramount Plus gave away a very expensive product for free.
After reports that “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” cost between $10 million and $20 million per episode to produce, the network bizarrely posted the entirety of its premiere episode on YouTube, likely in hopes of garnering interest from a wider audience.
‘He goes to Starfleet Academy, makes a ton of friends, and they help him be OK with who he is.’
However the typically popular franchise hardly made a big splash, with just over 85,000 views in the first 24 hours. While the city-sized viewership would be nothing to scoff at for an independent operation, reviewers were shocked by the numbers, revealing that during its premiere, the show allegedly hit a peak of just 1,316 concurrent viewers.
Set phasers to ‘slay’
The show has been heavily criticized for its obvious diversity push, with sci-fi author Brad Torgersen even calling it a “huge, gay, glee club middle finger to everyone who liked” the franchise, back in December. Torgersen blamed “theater kids” for ruining the franchise as well.
Since its debut, it has become even more apparent how deep the production went down the diversity rabbit hole. One scene was described as cadets being “required to get DEI training.” In the scene, an instructor tells her students that being in the academy means “being open to the people around you” as a student is questioning his colleagues’ identities.
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The instructor is played by actress Tig Notaro, whose real name is Mathilde O’Callaghan Notaro.
Notaro has previously described seeing her 5-year-old son in rainbow-colored clothing — particularly for gay pride — as “incredible” and even apologized for not being active in gender politics until it affected her.
Space cadet
Series creator Alex Kurtzman has not shied away from revealing the show’s devotion to diversity either.
“I think we’re not slowing down on representation in any way,” Kurtzman said according to Comic Book Club. “We’re certainly planning like representation is at the beating heart of [‘Star Trek’ creator] Roddenberry’s vision, and we’ve already done the work of bringing it to that new place.”
“So there’s really no reason to change course there,” he added.
The cast of characters also has an obvious and plainly stated agenda. The same outlet reports that a new lesbian couple will be introduced in the series, and the Klingon character, played by actor Karim Diane, will have his sexuality “explored.”
Here to make friends
Diane alluded to as much in a recent interview posted on the show’s official Instagram page.
“He doesn’t like to battle. He wants to love people and heal people and save people,” he said about his character. “He goes to Starfleet Academy, makes a ton of friends, and they help him be OK with who he is.”
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Other cast members include Zoe Steiner, who has shown up nearly nude to press junkets, and even late-night host Stephen Colbert.
Colbert announced his participation in the series in October and appears in 10 episodes as the Digital Dean of Students, which serves as a comic relief voiceover. He has already been mocked for his “absolute cringe” voice work in at least one scene.
Before the show aired, it was picked up for a second season by Paramount Plus.
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‘You don’t want this smoke’: Philly DA and sheriff threaten ICE officers — DHS just laughs
Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia district attorney who was impeached in 2022 for “dereliction of duty and refusal to enforce the law upon assuming office,” was among the leftists who condemned the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Macklin Good.
Multiple videos of the incident, including cellphone footage from the agent’s perspective, show the 37-year-old Colorado native drive into a federal law enforcement officer after disobeying repeated orders to exit her vehicle. As Good accelerated into the ICE agent — who had been dragged hundreds of yards by a fleeing suspect during a previous ICE operation — the agent opened fire in self-defense.
During a press conference on Jan. 8, where officials held a moment of silence for Good, then engaged in a cultish chant of her name, Krasner claimed the ICE agent’s actions were not only “unlawful” but amounted to a “criminal homicide” executed by a member of an agency that has supposedly taken a “Nazified approach to mass deportation.”
‘Do you hear me, ICE agents? Do you hear me, National Guard?’
Krasner — flanked by fellow anti-ICE radicals Aniqa Raihan of the group No ICE Philly and Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal, the latter of whom claimed that ICE was “fake” law enforcement — not only complained about the ICE officer’s decision to fire multiple shots but his location at the time of the vehicular attack.
According to Krasner, who referred to the incident in passing as a “murder,” the officer’s positioning in front of Good’s speeding SUV was a “violation of police directives in almost every jurisdiction.”
“Self-defense? So that is one layer of criminality,” said Krasner.
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After characterizing the agent’s act of self-defense as a crime, Krasner — who has spent years championing dangerous criminals — stated, “If any law enforcement agent, any ICE agent, is going to come to Philly to commit crimes, then you can get the eff out of here because if you do that here, I will charge you with those crimes. You will be arrested. You will stand trial. You will be convicted, whether it’s in state or federal court.”
“Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction,” continued Krasner. “Do you hear me, ICE agents? Do you hear me, National Guard? Do you hear me, military?”
Sheriff Bilal attempted to outdo Krasner’s expression of contempt for federal law enforcement officers, stating, “If any [ICE agents] want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide, nobody will whisk you off.”
“You don’t want this smoke, ’cause we will bring it to you,” threatened the sheriff whose crime-ridden city had 826 shootings in 2025.
Over the weekend, Krasner posted a picture of himself on social media with the acronym “FAFO,” which stands for “f**k around, find out.” The post was captioned, “To ICE and the National Guard: If you commit crimes in Philadelphia, we will charge you and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
The post was quickly ratioed on X.
“Unlike criminals in Philadelphia who get their charges dropped by the DA,” replied the National Police Association.
Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, noted, “The fullest extent of the state law would be nothing since they’re Federal officials. Don’t lose your bar license dude.”
The Department of Homeland Security responded with multiple dismissive posts, noting, “Oh no! Anyway.”
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Court Hearing for DC Police Bodycam J6 Footage
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The Spectacle Ep. 313: Here’s What We’re Leaving Behind in 2025
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Brown University Taps DEI Official To Restore ‘Sense of Physical Security’ on Campus
Brown University is launching a “campus-wide healing and recovery” initiative aimed at “ensuring a sense of physical security” following December’s deadly shooting. Rather than tapping a psychologist or trauma specialist to lead the effort, the Ivy League school appointed Matthew Guterl, the vice president of Brown’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and professor of “Africana Studies.”
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