Janeway?! Say it isn't show--so.

[diabeticman]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/star-trek-actress-lends-her-gravitas-to-film-promoting-idea-that-sun-revolves-around-earth/


A new documentary film, narrated by a former Star Trek actress, promotes the long-ago disproven idea that the sun revolves around the Earth.

“Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong,” says actress Kate Mulgrew as she narrates the trailer for “The Principle.”

The film, which is set to be released sometime this spring, was bankrolled in part by the ultra-conservative and anti-Semitic Robert Sungenis, who maintains the blog “Galileo Was Wrong.”


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It amazes my wife how someone who worked on a show as progressive and forward thinking as Star Trek is/was that you can do something like this documentary...

[LittleBlue]

1. Captain Janeway was the worst captain

along with Archer.

Picard would never be caught saying something like this.

[lordsummerisle]

14. Archer was my favorite

He was the only captain who didnt seem like he was on stage all the time...

[Skip Intro]

24. Janeway was ok. Archer was so bad he almost killed the franchise. n/t

[Generic Brad]

32. If she was ok as a captain, why did her ship get so hopelessly lost in the Delta quadrant?

And if she was trying so hard to get them all back home, why did she keep taking unnecessary detours?

[Skip Intro]

36. Well...

it became hopelessly lost in the Delta Quadrant because it was thrown there...

And a 75 year journey to get back home can afford a few detours for a ship whose captain sees as part of its overall mission exploration.

Wasn't my favorite Trek series, but light years better than Enterprise.

[winter is coming]

33. Both of them suffered from shitty, tired writing. n/t

[Skip Intro]

35. True, but it got far worse with Enterprise. Voyager became ok+ after 7 of 9 landed.

It was far more contrived than TNG, but still had an appeal and some decent episodes. Enterprise was terrible. As was the last Trek film, imho.

[OKNancy]

2. wow... unbelievable

no words.

[Mrdrboi]

3. Always thought Janeway was incompetent as Captain.

Never really liked Voyager had some good episodes but meh.

[RainDog]

4. It must have paid well

She's also on the new netflix show Orange is the New Black, as a Russian prisoner who killed someone over Russian mafia business.

[DJ13]

5. She wasnt very smart on Ryan's Hope either

[struggle4progress]

6. I don't think Sungenis has much in the way of either credentials or following

[TreasonousBastard]

7. She's an actress, and might be forgiven if she did it for the money, but...

what the fuck is Michio Kaku doing on this trailer?

http://io9.com/why-are-all-these-physicists-in-a-weird-creationist-doc-1560470757

[RainDog]

12. There are a few scientists - who do not agree with the filmmaker

I saw their names too and wondered about an agreement to appear in a film by a holocaust denier. I assume people might not realize they are being used to give a sheen of credibility to someone who is batshit crazy.

[TreasonousBastard]

22. The article I linked asks why they are there and...

suggests some artful editing.

[RainDog]

23. but they would still have to get permission

if they're using excerpts from others' vids - and usually have to pay for use unless the person is claiming it's for educational purposes only and not making a profit.

you can only use a few seconds of any copyrighted material w/o permission.

but permission may lie with whoever holds it for a film and not the person who appears in it.

[TreasonousBastard]

25. That's part of the point of the article...

we might not know much more unless lawsuits abound.

[Electric Monk]

8. I thought she was pretty good as "Red" in the new NetFlix series Orange Is The New Black

but that doesn't make her a Russian serial killer...

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3235435008/ch0407651
http://orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com/wiki/Galina_Reznikov




Sometimes a gig is just a gig? I hope she charged Sungenis a lot of money.

[Logical]

16. She has changed a lot. nt

[johnp3907]

9. I can't believe Columbo was married to her!

[eShirl]

10. actors are often some of the flakiest people

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

11. Way to hitch your wagon to an anti-Semitic, Mulgrew.

Even if you're "just getting paid" for a job, you're still a moron for signing the contract to narrate this.

[KamaAina]

13. She is a bit of a whackjob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Mulgrew#Personal_life

Mulgrew is also an opponent of abortion and capital punishment. She received an award from Feminists for Life, a pro-life feminist group. She is quoted as saying "Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary", "Life is sacred to me on all levels" and "Abortion does not compute with my philosophy."

You remember Feminists for Life, don't you? Does the name Susan Carpenter McMillan, so prominent during the unfortunate Paula Jones situation, ring a bell?

The amazing thing is that her husband once ran for Governor of Ohio -- as a Dem!

[Logical]

18. I think being anti-abortion and anti-DP at least is consistent. Opposite of most GOP. nt

[KamaAina]

19. The Catholic name for that combo is "the Seamless Garment".

Or as we clinic defenders called it, "the Seamy Garment".

[FarCenter]

15. Due to the sun's motion about the galactic center, the earth moves in an elongated spiral.

[spanone]

17. when i was a kid, we'd say she belongs in a rubber room.

science deniers are a sad lot.

[2pooped2pop]

20. has she ever actually worked since the Voyager series?

Or hell, I don't remember her before that either. I guess it's kind of like Henry Winkler doing the commercials for reverse mortgages. Who cares if you fuck over the old people as long as you make a buck when you're a has been?

Mulgrew is gonna have to live with this stupidity for the rest of her life, I'll bet.

[Warpy]

21. She's an acress well over 50

She probably needed the money.

[Capt.Rocky300]

26. Bingo..........

and I suspect the devoted Trekkers are gonna hammer her for it.

[Fumesucker]

27. Technically the Earth does not orbit the Sun

It orbits the barycenter, which is sometimes outside the Sun.

Or even more technically it orbits where the barycenter was eight minutes ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinates_%28astronomy%29

[1000words]

28. She's an actress. It's work.

See Mike Rowe.

[Motown_Johnny]

29. Mrs. Columbo seems to need a clue.

(Yes, I am old)








P.S. there is already a 2 hour 42 minute youtube video by this guy up about geocentrism.

[exboyfil]

30. A comment in the story suggested that the article mischaracterized the position

The contention is that the cosmic background radiation shows a preferential position for earth. I don't if this is the case (probably is not) but it is a far cry from believing the earth revolves around the sun.

Here is an article on the discrepancy.

http://www.nature.com/news/cosmologists-at-odds-over-mysterious-anomalies-in-data-from-early-universe-1.14368

There is a heck of lot we don't understand about cosmology (dark energy, dark matter, this phenomenon being three). The Theory of Evolution is far more defined and understood for example. A recent Scientific American article discussed how we can't even get the radius of the proton right.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. whoa! Mrs. Columbo

[sakabatou]

34. Please tell me this is satire and she's not promoting geocentrism