Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2016
- Their mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations, and leave them alone. Trade with them if they want, but mostly leave them the hell alone.
In honor of Star Trek's 50th Anniversary, Reason presents the Libertarian parody of the final frontier, with appearances by Gary Johnson and Remy.
Written and produced by Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton. Shot and edited by Bragg and Bragg.
About 4 minutes.
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"It's nice but I just don't want to throw my vote away."
As true as this is, we need to disregard this attitude so we can have Libertarians in power.
@@seanb6478 Agreed completely.
@@memunist5765 This comes with other problems that are potentially worse. I think the best way going forward is a prefered choice method.
@@memunist5765 Since when have politicians fulfilled their promises?
Wow this is really NICE for all of us to meet here ...
#TheFirstOnesFree
#THECRAZYONES
SHE was on Your ballot ...
"It's a _gay_ fruit basket."
LOL
Best line
"Its a wedding cake for a gay couple"
"You win this round"
Its funny too cuz George Takei is actually gay
@@elgeneraldelnorte6145 Happy Birthday to George, on April 20th !
It's a gay fruit basket 😂
@@SeaJay_Oceans Am I the only one to find it ironic that George, & Adolf, share the same month, & day, of birthdays?
@@elgeneraldelnorte6145 the only thing wrong is he doesn't support them making sulu gay
'KAAAAahHhngress!'
That really caught me off gaurd lol
A red shirt should have suddenly appeared out of nowhere to go flying over the trailing
That was brilliant!😂😂😂😂😂
@@RockOfLions there actually was one lol just gone so fast you might not notice :D If you watch on the left right when he starts shouting, you'll see a redshirt go flying XD
I laughed out loud at that
i love how they switched the mushroom cloud from right side to left side
Great spot!
Indeed.
Same here lol
And of course it's exactly 4:20 long.
MrHatoi I don’t get it.
Of course
@@kristiankepley5944 420 is code for marijuana
Reason is so self aware. I love it.
"I just don't want to throw my vote away."
SPACE ... the Final Front Ear...
not forgetting Davy Crockett... who had a strange growth.... known as the Wild Front Ear.
Exactly what I did, by voting for that red-haired shole in 2016
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The Gary Johnson part was pure gold
"Ster Trek: The Libertarian Edition" Isn't that Firefly?
We (fans) thought so too. But Joss Whedon went off his rocker.
that's Space Quest
That's Star Wars
The show seams that way because it's about civilians but the alliance in fire fly is straight up fascist. If Star Trek followed civilians you would see that the Federation is as libertarian as anything. The federation is just military and science exploration as far as the shows indicate. It's unclear if they have any authority over civilians. It's like if the US cut the government down to just the military. There is no indication of nationalization and it seams people own private property. It's post scarcity money is just not very relevant.
@@acendiatmedia8747 In Firefly the alliance are the bad guys. In Star Trek, labor is still clearly used, and still scarce. So its not post-scarcity in the strictest sense. They don't make those Galaxy class cruisers in replicators. Someone has to actually build and maintain them. So I think that Firefly is still more libertarian.
'And then some guy in a red shirt goes flying over the railing.'
Wrong series tho.
**Wilhelm-Scream.mp3**
"we bombed a wedding, again." great line.
Itsmeeman1 And that makes it ok? I don't care if it was Hitler's wedding...it's still bs.
William Brown I was just pointing out that it's actually happened in real life. Nothing more.
Itsmeeman1 well yeah, it does happen in real life. And that's awful.
@@hiro2protagonist obama bombed a weedding its a reference to it
@@KzLIshKenChe yeah, that’s why I said it’s a great line. Bc it’s a sad but true thing.
By 2013 we’d already bombed 8 wedding parties.
"It's a gay fruit basket." Had me in stitches. 😂
Is there another kind
At the "we've run out of forms, captain", I was thinking at first, they could just replicate new forms. Then I remembered the replicator bit from before. Then you alluded to this very bit. You sirs, have better world building than Kurtzman Trek.
Computer, what is Aleppo?
Awesome
Thanks to Gary Johnson I now know where Aleppo is, but despite what the talking heads said, I still don't care what is going on there. As George Washington said, beware of entangling alliances.
MetaSimian, I knew, but I’m kind of a nerd about geography and archeology. I didn’t care that Gary was caught off guard or whatever because he probably knew all the governors of the six Mexican border states, perhaps from in-person meetings. That’s more important information for a US president.
What is Rand/Massey for 2024 Alex.
@@brookeking8559 and then we found out he didn't....
I really respect that they reached out to Gary and got him to do this!
It's not like he was busy doing anything else.
@@johnlittle3430 911, we have a burn victim
The inertial dampeners scene was gold. Pure. Gold
Oddly enough the whole “leave them alone” thing is very prime directive
At the moment Iam unable to tell if this was glorifying or mocking Libertarians.
Yes
Probable glorifying (reason is libertarian)
Supposed to glorify, except Gary Johnson was a moron, so they shot their own foot off.
Why not both?
Neither could I
"this is the year Bitcoin takes off" holy shit I laughed so hard.
It only took five years for everybody to kind of be just like Well I guess it is
And now, it crashed and burned.
That Gary Johnson bit was hilarious 😂
Am I the only one who thought it was comical and left it at that?
I thought it was funny
I thought it was hysterical.
Yes. Yes you were.
EndlessEtudes I fell off my couch 10 seconds in laughing my ass off.
yes. but i had to ignore itches..
Has there ever been a non gay fruit basket?
Well how about the Greeks who liked their grapes. Oh wait that doesn't work. What about sailors and their efforts to avoid scurvy? Oh wait that doesn't work either. No you're right.
I have a fruit bowl
nice 👍
Yes, it contains cured meats, heavily peated whiskey, fresh coffee and triple ply toilet paper.
Bowl of cherries is your safest bet, I think.
Weird how so many fruits convey feminity or sexual undertones... I credit the Victorians and their "language of flowers" for this.
1:00 Half/Half Lives Matter, lol. I'm making this one a poster.
Please do more Libertarian TV show parodies. They're brilliant!
Pure comic gold. "We bombed a wedding (beat) again". That by itself makes this entire video worth it.
"Live long and prosper at the expense of taxpayers" -- I need to remember this when I email my Congressperson/Senator.
Kirk in the Tribble pile: "Good idea, except we asked you to help us with our pest control problem, not encourage people to breed more of the fuzzy little bastards."
This video was MUCH better than I thought it would be. A +
Sad that people can't get over their political butthurtness to see how freakin hilarious this is
How's this badboy holding up so far?
It's nice but I don't want to throw my vote away ;).
Isn't that a hallmark of good satire? Good satire has to be biting. Dare I use the word "offensive". If it's funny and creates political butthurtness it did all it had to.
The only thing about it which makes me butthurt is the TOS uniforms on the TNG set, lol.
Well, I will admit I voted for Hillary over Trump, and subsequently Trump over Biden, but that part of the video where "Kirk" stares dumbfounded at the two choices in the "unwinnable test", just about killed me from laughing so hard.😂😂😂😂
"2016 Gary Johnson received nearly 4.5 million votes (3.27% of the total vote), which is the most for a third party presidential candidate since 1996 and the highest national vote share for a Libertarian candidate in history."
It would be nice to improve the accounting of the USA, pay down some debt, and boost the economy.
Nothing happens if the currency is worthless and we all go bankrupt.
Construction and Real Estate development is a good thing as long as it makes consideration for wild life and green space.
Net Zero buildings are ideal, and no body enjoys living in a dull, grey lifeless city of concrete and steel.
Meh. Like saying Mo was the smartest stooge.
Is that a population-adjusted 'highest'?
You want to pay down the debt, tell congress to stop overspending
The currency is worthless anyway, it's fiat guaranteed by government not gold silver or any other metal of worth
Net zero buildings, we came live underground leave the real-estate alone the animal population may recover without our intervening all the time.
All agenda aside, that was pretty funny.
I gotta say, whether you're on the left or the right, that's some funny shit right there.
The part where they compared this election to the kobayashi maru test made me laugh...Definitely a no-win scenario in 2016!
Third party.
I believe in Wrath of Khan, it was pointed out that Captain Kirk hacked the computer to avoid the no win scenario. :-)
>third party
lmao
No-win for you maybe
JazukaiX = Clinton voter
They should do the Libertarian version of Alien. "In Space, no one can hear you say "what's Aleppo?"
lol
That's the dog food right? Lol.
This got an honest-to-god laugh out loud from me. Well played, sir.
Freakin hilarious! Especially the battle with the replicator.
doesn't matter what your politics are, this is funny.
That is how you do good comedy SNL, take notes from this video.
could you do a "voyager" version of this? I noticed that the longer they stayed away from the magic marketless federation, the more they needed to do things based on trade, the more important supply and demand were, and the more they needed to innovate.
This is ludicrously, ridiculously hilarious! Well done!
This was was reasonably enjoyable.
"Mostly leave them alone"
You mean like the Prime Directive says they are supposed to do?
That is a fair point given how often they show themselves to a prewarp culturr
There would be no conflict...if the Enterprise actually abided by the Prime Directive, there'd be no show worth watching.
So basically season 1 of TNG
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Hilarious! You win the internet for this week. Maybe the month.
I love the Kobayashi Maru voting booth.
I do love how you guys insist on two party system; )
“…and prosper at the expense of taxpayers”, couldn’t be more accurate.
Don't we already have this? They're called Ferrengi episodes.
RRW Can't...stop... Laughing!!!
my understanding is that ferengi were created as a counterpoint to the 'socialism' of STU but somewhat parodied/mocked re 'invisible hand' Market God with the ferengi rules of acquisition almost literally raising 'capitalism' to a cult/religion status with pseudo temples of "Mammon'.
kuriousitykat It's a great tease on how people have basically elevated capitalism to the god-like status it's been accredited with (I.E. Everyone who says it's absolutely the best system which can do no wrong, despite the dozens of economic crashes that have occurred directly because of capitalistic/libertarian ideals).
Nope, they were called the Mirror Universe episodes.
Are you stupid? No, let me rephrase before you answer: HOW stupid are you? I'm not even Libertarian, and even I realize that the mirror universe is as far from libertarianism as it's possible to get.
I'm not a Libertarian. But that ending made me laugh so hard.
"I don't believe in unwinable scenarios" I died.
"Your choice is unavailable" lol
Maybe in 2020 the LP will have actual libertarians on the presidential ticket? Nice cameo but no thanks Gary. I've got a cake to not bake.
The fact that the cake issue is the forefront of all arguments against Gary Johnson makes me lose hope in humanity. It really would be good if an asteroid hit earth.
With all the things Trillary would do if elected, this is enough reason for you to write off Johnson?
I dunno, giving money to planned parenthood goes against all things libertarian. But Gary Johnson wants to do this? Like I said, I dunno, but seems against everything libertarians are supposed to stand for
Friday1970 Anything tax related is against the libertarian stance. I swear you social conservatives are gonna fuck up this movement.
No kidding right!?
Hopefully they can nominate a full on anarchist so they can go back to getting 0.3% of the vote and can lose all the ballot access Johnson gets them so they can go back to using all the time, effort and money just to get on the ballot to get 0.3% of the vote again.
I don't get tired of this video, every time I watch it makes me laugh!
the gary johnson part has me dead
Gary Johnson looked so sad at 1:31. Sometimes I think that man needs a hug.
Well done, guys. Very funny. My favourite skitt was the inertial dampeners one.
"Gay Fruit basket" Kind of a redundant statement don't you think?
I'm a small business owner and I hate society and I think if you weren't born with 'it' you should never have it. I am a proud Libertarian. Thank you.
I love how Libertardians really think that a nightmare plutocrat like Gary Johnson would magically result in roads that aren't falling apart, buildings that aren't crumbling to the ground, and healthcare that isn't ten times more expensive than its current extortionate cost. They are so adorable.
1:25 Notice how the side the mushroom cloud is on changes between programs.
Libertarian Star Trek; Great idea, but already taken. It's called Firefly by Joss Whedon
Ehh they are more anarchist/sovereign citizen types. It could be said they are anti globalist. But if you really dig into Star Trek is actually very libertarian.
Props to Gary Johnson for being a good sport!
My hometown hero, Youngstown’s own, openly-mafia-connected-congressman Jim Trafficante is shown briefly saying his signature “Beam me up!” that he used as an expression of incredulity at the behavior of government. He lived in the house that my grandma lived in years earlier .
“Kaaahhhhn....gresssss!”
"What is Aleppo?" - Gary Johnson 2016
No, no, no.
It was: "What is a leppo?"
Let's be honest how many people actually knew what Aleppo was? Sure if you are in the House or Senate you probably get briefings but most people don't know the specific cities in Syria and didn't associate the conflict there with Aleppo!
"Live long and prosper at the expense of taxpayers" I fucking died lmao
Libertarian got their Star Trek with Firefly. It was cancelled after 14 episodes
"Impractical Klingon Bladed Weapons"
This still made me laugh. Though, a missed opportunity.
"What's an Allepo" themed joke.
I couldn't stop laughing! Gary Johnson piece, with the pout and the replicator! LOL!!!
Ok just to put my nerd hat on, you're using the next generation bridge while using TOS' uniforms.
I love the attention to detail regarding all of the computer sound effects.
Gary Johnson is a LINO
no Joe Miller whose running for Senate in Alaska, is a LINO. Gary is practically an AnCap compared to him
He's running as a libertarian, but doesn't seem to understand the non-aggression principle, +Carlos A. That's. . . pretty significant.
Not everyone that understands the NAP has to be an anarchist
Statements like "people with brains don't do x" are for simpletons.
So far, none of the NAP refutations I've read are even internally consistent, much less convincing.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. - Socrates
I love the scene when Bones has to refuse medical help to an alien that has not met his yearly deductible and does not have the funds in his account. "Bones can you save him?" "Yes Jim but he is financially unable to be saved". Bravo libertarian Star Trek.
Has that ever happened? Because I never seen a doctor turn down anyone, perhaps you have.
Rebekah is Vulcan No, because there's laws against doctors refusing people care. Of course, in a libertarian society, the government would never exercise such an egregious misuse of power as to tell a doctor that he can't let someone die.
Charity hospitals exist and help millions. Even more before government got involved
The problem in the end isn't exactly cost to the person needing help, it's actual legitimate cost of the product offered. The person couldn't afford it in the United States. But could easily afford it in another "first world country" simply because the healthcare industrial complex hasn't run amok.
Once more we come to it again, 8 years on. This will never stop being relevant.
How have I been missing these?!
THEY ARE GOLD !!!
2:35 holy crap!! Jim Trafficant was my Congressman when I was a kid!!!
The Computer (annoyed), "You win this time."
(Segment Ends at 420. Hmmmm...)
The ending was genius.
One of the best sketches ever
Johnson ain't this...Johnson ain't that....where were y'all when Bob FUCKIN' Barr and Wayne Allen Root were the ticket. Voting for McCain probably.
Yes, Bob Barr sucks more than Gary Johnson. This doesn't mean that Gary Johnson doesn't suck because not sucking as hard as Bob Barr Isn't very hard.
maybe the LP needs to stop nominating republicans for the presidential ticket
They also need to quit pretending that their free market policies are congruent with actual liberty.
Fk that where were we for Ron Paul?
The LP hasn't run a good candidate since Harry Browne.
Reason, stop trying to make Gary Johnson a thing. It's never going to happen.
I agree, you are a simple man. :-)
I agree, Gary Johnson is a bullshit excuse for a libertarian.
him t your mom is
***** Well...
- he's back and forth on "assault" rifle ownership.
- he believes in federal gun control
- he believes in political correctness
- he believes "illegal immigrant" is an inflammatory term
- he believes in anthropogenic global warming
- he believes in taxing carbon emissions
- he does not believe in religious liberty
- he does not believe in freedom of association
- he supports Black Lives Matter
- he supports TPP
- he politically sides more with Bernie Sanders than with any of the other conservative candidates
- he supports mass importation and federal resettlement of refugees
- as a Governor he nearly doubled New Mexico's debt.
- he said Hillary Clinton was a great public servant
***** Are you kidding me? Most of those things he has said on video. For example, in terms of climate change he said, "I do believe climate change is occurring, that it is man-caused. One of the proposals that I think is a very libertarian proposal - and I'm just open to this - is taxing carbon emissions and may have the result of being self-regulating."
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If you think I'm a Trump supporter or am part of the alt-right, you're barking up the wrong tree. You know what they say about those that assume though.
But yes, Bernie Sanders is an inflammatory term for me considering he is the biggest progressive politician to run for office since FDR.
How about about you get your nose out of Johnson's ass-crack and take a look at his what is coming out of his mouth for a change?
gets better every time I watch it.
I gotta say, I haven't laughed like this in a long time. This was great!
"Does this really need to be a thing?" Nope it doesn't.
Nor do we need thirty types of deodorant!
Is this supposed to make me be supportive or pessimistic towards libertarians? O_o
It is supposed to point out the stupidity of the other two options. One option (trump) is clearly less bad but still shit.
Edit To Add. Gary Johnson is not a Libertarian, please don't think him typical. At current he seems to be there to insure Hillary's election.
AKlover
Out of curiosity, who is currently considered the most libertarian candidate?
***** Perhaps Johnson by a hair, and not much. Hard to know where Trump specifically falls on a given issue since his speeches are catered to 8th grade level educated people with no grasp of economics. Were he to sit down and be questioned by a bunch of historians and economists I think Trump would surprise a lot of people.
Libertarianism is antithetical to virtually everything Hillary believes and stands for. Some people are too stupid to grasp the difference between a permissive lefty fascist and A true "Libertarian Leaner" ...........or they care about nothing other than smoking pot.
AKlover
In short, we're not likely to see a true libertarian primary candidate in the near future, by the sound of it.
***** Will not matter. Real Libertarians are never going to be more than 5% of the population. Unless all of the sudden the federal and state governments go broke and lose their power to do violence. This happening would cause people to reassess what is in their self interest and overnight half the population becomes hardened capitalist Libertarians.
The other fact is 95% white and 98% plus male. Go to a large gathering of Libertarians and you will likely question even the 2% female. Put 10,000 Libertarians in a room. Throw out the "Supportive Spouses, "Honey potters" working on behalf of a non-profit or business, and "breeder Wives" and what will be left is 3 female Libertarians. I wish I was exaggerating but I'm not.
Thanks for a good laugh this morning, and keep up the good work!
“KAAAHN-gress!” 🤣🤣
Funny, but contradicts itself. Johnson wants to force you to make those cakes.
No-win scenario XD
I'm not a Gary Johnson supporter, but you have to give him props for having a sense of humor.
I... think that was archive footage?
@@IoEstasCedonta Awww, man. If that's true, I'm pretty disappointed.
2:03 actually the Galaxy Class is manufactured at the Utopia Planitia shipyards in Mars Orbit, entirely in the Sol System. I would have gone with the Nebula Class for this joke because it can still be called a "cruiser" and was not manufactured in the Sol System.
If it wasn't for that Gary Johnson bit, I would have gave it a thumbs up. Ron Paul would have been more accurate.
Star Trek already has Libertarians. They're called Ferengi.
"Star Trek already has Libertarians. They're called Ferengi." Ha, ha. Newly issued Rule Of Acquisition: if anyone ever tries acquiring YOUR possessions through the use of force, find the nearest Klingon and tell him they said his mother has a smooth forehead. Problem Solved."
Andy Diehl you mean space Jews ?
Deep down, everyone's a Ferengi. Rule of Acquisition two hundred eighty four.
No, really. It is. Look it up.
"I'm afraid we've run out of those forms captain." lol, I guess this shit happens a lot.
Poor Gary Johnson, I voted for you!
lol Star Trek regularly mocks the libertarian stance; or have you just ignored the entire Ferengi race?
Ferengi are definitely not libertarian. Too many rules of acquisition.
34th rule of acquisition- war is good for business
very libertarian mhm
Other people's wars.
35th rule of acquisition- peace is good for business
Libertarians aren't a race!
Libertarians treating each other like True Scotsmen up in this piece. Way to focus on what's important guys! Arguing over details instead of supporting someone who actually wants to reduce the size and influence of government, and is campaigning in a way that won't scare off all the "muh roads" statists that fear deregulation. Look at the big picture instead of nitpicking. Fuck.
pragmatism is sorely underrated, yet in all cases you have to work with what you got
The libertarian party has never been truly libertarian, and it literally can't be. This discussion has been going on even since it was founded.
'He's not libertarian enough'
So they'd rather have a fascist dictator snake oil salesman or a complete communist Mao style chancellor? We either get V for vendetta or 1984. I don't get it man, it's a step in the right direction guys, and he can appeal to both sides and it'll be better than what we have now
+supersonic dickhead
Pragmatism is severely overrated. It's the reason most people refuse to even consider third party candidates; mention libertarians, Green party, or whatever your particular favorite is, and you will get a funny look and an answer along the line of "Yeah, that'd be great, but get real. They'll never win."
If less people wanted to be "practical," and just voted for the candidate they thought was best, we would have a much better shot of actually making a change.
+Carlos A
The term 'legal citizen' does not require a corollary term 'illegal citizen' to be valid. It simply clarifies the meaning of 'citizen' as a legal term, rather than other fairly common uses, like applying it to anyone who lives in a country.
Joel Henderson you could just as easily say being pragmatic means abandoning your partisan view and looking at a 3rd party if that 3rd party will get you closer to your goal.
Thanks guys, that was great! My brain hasn't seen comedy for quite some time and it took it a while to recognize it but when I did i couldn't stop laughing. Thankyou.
"We bombed another wedding" Five years later and that joke is relevant.
Ferrengi are Libertarians in the Trek Verse, with a small touch of alt-right misogynny.
And they are the great trading empire known for shooting itself in the foot, destroying their own environment and selling weapons to both sides of wars whenever possible. Quark is shown as an example of one such being as he slowly develops over his story arc to learn that the various prejudices that were built into his society are wrong and that sometimes you need to take a side in a war for your own survival and that of your people.
He goes from Conservative Libertarian to true Liberal over the course of Deep Space Nine. No longer hating other species and believing in equality of the sexes etc.
The ferengi are not libertarians. They are pure anarchists. there is a difference.
What is the Aleppo System?
That. Was. BEAUTIFUL!
I find the Libertarian philosophy and policy programme utterly ludicrous, BUT .... these videos are hysterical! Keep it up and I may vote for you anyway!!!