Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸

@LMUsftv MFA Class of ‘23. Writer, Filmmaker, Watches a lot of television. Supports #WGAStrike! #DoTheWriteThing

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

Elmo Mush ruined Twitter. Can't justify staying on here.

Find me on Instagram instead. Also on Blue Sky.

Otherwise, goodbye Twitter - and yes, I'll still call you that.

[Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher @LorenaSGonzalez]

Don’t get distracted.

Gov Newsom has vetoed 3 important labor bills, including labor’s collective highest priority bill - #SB799.

We must continue to organize & fight & demand respect for all workers, especially those who are striking to fix an economy that has failed us.

[sarah 🌙 @theresnoyou]

the worst part of customer service work is corporate making decisions that will piss customers off just to save a little money bc they know they’re not the ones who have to deal with it. the front line workers who had no say are the ones who get the anger taken out on them

[Daniel Kunka @unikunka]

Also remember — every negative press article about the WGA strike is a studio tactic against SAG-AFTRA.

[Writers Guild of America West @WGAWest]

Governor @GavinNewsom's veto of #SB799 is a dismissal of the working people that have supported him. For 148 days, members of the WGA struck against companies who intended to drive writers into financial ruin. 1/2

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

When the President is more pro-labor than the governor of California….

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Gavin Newsom Vetoes WGA And SAG-AFTRA Backed-Bill To Provide Unemployment Benefits To Striking Workers https://t.co/68ZBYTkCHS

[Dave Rappoccio @DrawPlayDave]

CONGRATS, TEXANS

[Dave Rappoccio @DrawPlayDave]

CONGRATS, BILLS

[Gerald @210Gremx]

They need to do the next game at the Bikini Bottom Bubble Bowl #NFL #NFLLondonGames #Falcons #Jaguars #ToyStory

[Kayla Schueller @kmschueller]

I’ll say it…..if I was going to be on national television announcing an NFL game in London - I don’t think I would choose those pants. 🤣🫢 #NFL #NFLLondonGames

[Don't take Nurtec if you're allergic to it @Dude_Abiding_]

This looks like what would have happened if Comedy Central fed Celebrity Death Match writers acid.

#NFLLondonGames

[Gabrielle Union @itsgabrielleu]

11 people.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Oh, inflation is at a generational high? Odd that corporate profits are also the highest they've ever been. Must be a coincidence. Probably should ignore that part.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

@RysaWalker @antimatterdata Regardless of what it literally is, the subtext is definitely Messianic for Sisko. And showrunner Ira Steven Behr has stated in the past that he intended “for Sisko to become a God” by the last episode. So he certainly believed in the Prophets.

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

@Tat2dDadSF @TeltheTrekkie Well, no one ever accused Gene of being consistent or thorough with his “vision”.

Though I could argue that’s less canonical substance and more set decoration for the sake of visual shorthand.

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

@TeltheTrekkie HOWEVER, Gene eventually died and the first series after he died had a protagonist who turned out to be a literal Space Messiah.

Hence bickering about New Trek adhering to Gene's vision or not, being a bit of a moot point.

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

@TeltheTrekkie I mean, he's kinda right. Gene was an atheist and was very opposed to organized religion and deities - hence why a lot of his Trek stories involved Kirk/Picard battling with villains with God-like powers. "Who Mourns for Adonis?" is where this subtext is most blatant.

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

And then you add who Sisko's birthmother really was... yeah, he was Space Jesus!

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

Gene Roddenberry was indeed very anti-religion and it definitely showed in Trek when he was alive.

Anybody else find it funny that the first Trek show after Gene died - DS9 - had it's protagonist be literally Space Jesus?

[Travis M. Baker 🌹🇺🇸 @musicalnotextr]

And don't give me that "the Prophets were just aliens" crap. The show never proved or disprove the idea that they were Gods and the Prophets were so powerful and deeply metaphysical that it kinda made no difference whether they were or not.