What in the Star Trek is going on?

Earlier this week, Whiskey Pete Hegseth and waking CSAM generator Elon Musk had a press conference about how xAI will be integrated into United States weapons systems.

It's a bad idea, of course. But during this shindig, both individuals talked about making Star Trek -- and Starfleet Academy -- real. They did this in front of a podium that read "The Arsenal of Freedom."

Both Jalopnik and Ars Technica made a post about how in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 21 is called "The Arsenal of Freedom" and that the episode is about an AI weapons system that killed everyone on the planet Minos.

These clowns are terrible at understanding the meaning of the content they consume.

Yesterday, Stephen Miller -- man who hasn't beaten the Nazi allegations -- tweeted about how Star Trek in 2026 is now woke. He said that Paramount+ should hire William Shatner to have sole creative control of the franchise.

Considering how close the Ellisons -- who own Star Trek these days -- and the White House are, it's something that might happen.

Except, William Shatner (as Captain Kirk) was a woke captain. The first on-screen interracial kiss happened on Star Trek. Kirk and Spock fight literal Nazis. In one episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever," Kirk must let the woman he loves die so that Nazis don't rule the planet Earth.

This show has always been woke. It's also always been funny, which is also something some people don't understand.

The Federation exists in a post-scarcity society. Billionaires don't exist, because money doesn't exist. Yet somehow Musk thinks we can have that with money? What drugs is he on? Don't answer that.

Something more pressing, if you are a fan of Star Trek, is that we're quickly approaching the timeframe of World War III canonically. It's interesting to point out that canonically, we don't know which nation started that war. We just know nearly a billion people are killed.

Oh, good.