How do you think we Star Trek fans felt when Star Trek Discovery lists him off as one of the great inventors alongside the Wright Brothers and Zephram Cochrane (the man who invented warp for humanity in universe)?
It was like saying, "like those great feminists, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B Anthony, and Donald Trump."
The Simpsons had him on one episode at some point during the shitty seasons which is like 24 of them now. Lisa, always the bullshit detector in the show, fawns over him and calls him "one of our greatest living inventors" or something along those lines. Really highlights how the show mostly revolves around guest stars playing themselves more and more as the show went on and quality declined.
We can at least copium it as Lorca being from the mirror universe, where Musk's behavior would actually be appealing. Lorca was a gigantic piece of shit role-playing as a starfleet captain, so it makes sense he'd slip up now and then.
Ironically, Zephram Cochrane was kind of a shitty person in universe (alcoholic, built the warp ship for money so he could "retire to an island full of naked women") but history sanded his rough edges off by the time of TNG. Wouldn't be surprised if the same happens to Musk, though obviously he wasn't an inventor on the same level.
Also, in Discovery, its later revealed that the character who said that about Musk is from the Evil Mirror Universe, so I wonder if that was an early hint.
I actually like to think that he was reviewing our history and Musk stuck out as a great man from his perspective and wasalso listed under 'innovators' or something.
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u/EmperorBamboozler Sep 02 '24
It's wild that people think this man is smart given the evidence we now have to the contrary.