{"id":33626,"date":"2022-03-19T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33626"},"modified":"2022-03-19T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:13:02","slug":"where-no-bounty-hunter-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33626","title":{"rendered":"Where No Bounty Hunter Has Gone Before"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this on Facebook this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"342\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220319-134919-mfacebookcom-342x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33623\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Star Trek<\/em>. Boba Fett. <em>Star Trek: Boba Fett<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s interrogate this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typo, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine for a moment. Boba Fett, the galaxy far, far away&#8217;s greatest bounty hunter, tossed through time and space into the 24th-century where he has to do what he does best to survive, hunting down the scum of the <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe for more than a few bars of gold-pressed latinum.  But against a Hirogen or a Jem&#8217;Hadar, what good is a suit of Mandalorian armor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Star Trek: Boba Fett<\/em> would break the Starfleet-centric tendency of <em>Star Trek<\/em> series, to show viewers the grubby underside of <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe \u2014 the lawless frontier, the merchant princes, the trading guilds, the smugglers, those on the run from the law, those tring to disappear, those trying to remake themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, do a <em>Star Trek<\/em> series in the <em>Star Wars<\/em> universe \u2014 a Federation starship falls through one of those spatial anomolies that seem to crop up two weeks out of five and falls into a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, where the crew has to navigate the nuances and ambiguities of a galaxy in the midst of a civil war. Can they uphold the Federation&#8217;s ideals and Starfleet&#8217;s mantra to &#8220;boldly go where no one has gone before&#8221; when an Empire has the galaxy in a vice grip and a society of warrior monks wield powers far beyond human understanding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d watch both of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas, it&#8217;s nothing but a typo.  Nothing but a typo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-primary-background-color has-primary-color is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220319-173225-mobiletwitter-501x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33624\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Cruz is Big Mad because the season 4 finale of <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> featured a cameo by Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note to Ted: <em>Star Trek<\/em> isn&#8217;t an Ayn Randian fever dream, no matter how much you want to it to be. You&#8217;ve missed the point of <em>Star Trek<\/em> as spectacularly as you missed the point of <em>Watchmen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on Facebook this afternoon. Star Trek. Boba Fett. Star Trek: Boba Fett. Let&#8217;s interrogate this. A typo, obviously. But! Imagine for a moment. Boba Fett, the galaxy far, far away&#8217;s greatest bounty hunter, tossed through time and space into the 24th-century where he has to do what he does best to survive,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33626\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Where No Bounty Hunter Has Gone Before&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5055,4089,4114,3912],"class_list":["post-33626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-boba-fett","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-ted-cruz","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}