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The feminine urge to take command of the Enterprise

The feminine urge to ask the animators why Chapel is suddenly a redshirt in a single scene

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your english teacher and your gym teacher are getting married

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I think Discovery does a good job with having queer characters in a futuristic sci-fi setting where they feel queer by the viewer’s standards AND queer within the setting of the story, but without it seeming like cultural standards have just been frozen for a few hundred years.

No one conceals their queerness or seems at all anxious or self-conscious about it, but Adira’s coming out is still treated like a significant moment and something that brings them closer to Stamets, and Gray mentions transitioning by name as something that took up his time and attention. The queer members of the Discovery behave like a family, like a unit within the crew.

From this, you can vaguely take away that the concept of queerness and queer community exists within the Federation, but not homophobia (at least as far as we see).

This is what I’ve always wanted from Star Trek and it’s so simple, but I think a lot of people fail at this when it comes to writing real oppressed groups into fantastical settings. “This character is different, but we can’t persecute them, how will we characterize them?? That’s scary… I’ll just ignore it.”

I remember watching a redlettermedia review of some nutrek (a bad idea) where they were complaining about forced wokeness and citing an episode of TOS where Abraham Lincoln calls Uhura a racial slur (just realized how stupid that sentence is) and she’s unfazed because she’s never experienced racism so it has no weight to her. The boys concluded that since racism, countries, war, etc. no longer exist on Earth, then human characters shouldn’t be so aware of what cultural categories they are. As if blackness would disappear without racism 🤨 and ethnicities would disappear without countries 🤨 and pride in one’s culture and heritage would disappear without wars 🤨. I think this is a common point of view that doesn’t really make sense, and I’m glad TV writers seem to be changing their minds (or just hiring minorities as writers lol).

Picard is still French without the country of France, and Sisko is Creole, and Dr. Culber is capital-g Gay, and Riker is a proud trombonist (a distinct social category of the twenty-first century). Good for them.

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I LOVE when the Captain has a trusted confindant they've known for years

BFFs on the bridge!

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Red shirts doing red shirt things

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Andrew Robinson as Garak, Alexander Siddig as Dr. Julian Bashir in Deep Space Nine, S2 E5 - Cardassians (1994)

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I think jim was aiming for respectful professional regard and landed somewhere between planning a spring wedding and crawling into his ribcage in full view of their bridge crew right then and there 👍

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I still think Janeway having lizard babies with Tom Paris is less bizarre and less surprising than Chakotay dating Seven.

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Sometimes it is funny to see someone making ds9 content and it is kind of clear that they haven't actually watched it in a while. Now. You may think that surely this is the case for me. And to that I say no. Every wrong take I have about a character or OOC joke I make is intentional and strategic. I alone can do this

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Bringing this over from bsky because I’m right

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hey guys. friendly reminder to tag your SNW posts accordingly and not clog up the TOS tags. they are not the same show. i don't know who la'an is, i'm trying to look at styrofoam rocks. thanks

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I find it so funny that having Pike wear a black undershirt with the green wrap shirt implies that, it is the proper way to wear the uniform and that Kirk is wearing it like that for slut whore reasons

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out of all the star trek chief engineers i think miles o’brien is the least likely to be a machinefucker. i think he loves his job but does not eroticize it. trip tucker is in the middle he would fuck a machine as long as it had tits and a sexy voice. b’elanna and geordi would go a step farther they would fuck a machine as long as it had a vaguely humanoid form but are happy to get pretty abstract with it. scotty would fuck the enterprise as is

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Other Star Trek characters when pretending to be part of another species: professional make up/prosthetics made by their doctors.

Meanwhile, vulcans while pretending to be human: