If you want to push the straight agenda, you have Hallmark movies.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What i know is this… gay aliens are acceptable, guy humans are not. Thats it in a nutshell, but it does get very complicated. Two simbiot women human kissing? Its ok because they are technically alien, but also ok because they are women, not men.
That brings me to the new gay doctor. It isnt commentary on weird alien sexual stuff, no, it comes off as a political statement. It doesn’t add to any space/alien stuff, rather it feels like an agenda being pushed… im not trying to offend anyone. My personal opinion? It feels like it wants to push a narrative, im not into the star trek hardly at all anymore.
TOS, TNG, voyager and like half of DS9 is how I like star wars. The new crap is only that, crap… imo…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
Gay humans exist today, they existed throughout history, and they will continue to exist for as long as humans do.
Do you consider Uhura being a bridge officer to be “pushing a narrative”? Because that was a political statement in much the same way that gay characters in Star Trek are (arguably more so).
It sucks to be a person whose very existence is political in this world that we live in now. Sci-Fi that includes those people is a way of saying "hey, wouldn’t it be nice if people could live their lives without their existence being the battleground for political ideology.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No idea what the comment said, but yes, modern star trek does push a narrative… selectively. Like, at the start of Disco, they got it perfect. Gay engineer, gay doctor. No big focus, no “OMG, YOURE GAY???”. They were just there. Doing their jobs. It was, for lack of a better word, normal.
Fast forward a couple of years, and that way of doing things goes out the window. Inserting a non binary character and trans character. Why? Dont know. Because by this time, sex reassignment surgery is not a big deal. It can be done in an afternoon, and youre out the door with no down time. We saw this with Quark in DS9. As for the non binary character, it wouldnt be an issue except for the fact of how they focused on it. They have this scene where they demand to be referred to as “they” and then Stamets beams with pride at the person standing up for themselves. But again, this is Star trek. Non binary is nothing new to humans in this time period. The exchange should have been no different than correcting someone with Dr if someone calls you Mr.
And this is the problem with modern Star Trek. Star Trek in the 60s and 90s showed us a hopeful vision of who we could be. NuTrek shows us who we are. And we already have plenty of other TV shows for that.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 14 hours ago
I’m begging you all, please report stuff that breaks the community rules and/or TOS - no one needs to put up with that nonsense.