Are you one of those people who believes Discovery had a coming out as nonbinary plot
Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 17 hours agoStar Trek (TOS) never needed to BE about diversity, because it was set in a utopian future where racism, and sexism weren’t problems anymore. You had an entire multi-racial cast on the bridge of a starship so just from THAT you knew that racism wasn’t a problem in the future. There was no more war, poverty, disease or crime. Conflict only came from humanity’s meetings with alien races.
TOS Star Trek never needed to beat you over the head every 5 minutes with how gay someone was because that wasn’t a problem in the 23rd century. Nobody gave a shit.
Kirk@startrek.website 16 hours ago
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
What does that even mean?
Kirk@startrek.website 15 hours ago
some people believe that star trek discovery had a story arc about a character coming out as non-binary.
Skv@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Wasn’t that arc about a lesbo character, in fact, becoming binary? They had to merge two to save one.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
no one watched that crappy show so maybe?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Now don’t get me wrong, I think the best way for Trek to handle queer issues is to just put queer people on the bridge. A gay Riker equivalent or a trans woman who talks about her past with the same discomfort but honesty as how Picard talks about his is what I want. And in that vein I’m still on my first watch of TNG and it’ll be a while before I get to nutrek.
But I’m not going to pretend that to a certain portion of the population TOS wasn’t seen as being overly preachy on race. But seeing as I haven’t gotten to TOS yet either, I will say that in modern day I do think TNG was a bit preachy about disability and I’m glad they were.
lime@feddit.nu 15 hours ago
honestly i think DS9 strikes a better balance. and it too was disliked at the time for going against what star trek was.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean, the one with the half white half black face dudes was not subtle
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
True, but that was one episode, not every scene of every episode.
Manalith@midwest.social 14 hours ago
Where do you consider TNG being preachy about disability? Not arguing, it’s just been a while since I’ve watched it beginning to end and this might be something I failed to pick up on.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Geordi’s blindness is a plot point at least once in an episode that’s basically exactly what people act like episodes involving queerness are. Where he has to hold a eugenicist’s hand through accepting that he doesn’t mind that he was born blind and that he even has some advantages thanks to his visor. Don’t get me wrong, it was a very good episode, and people did need it laid out like that, but it’s very much not the “we’ve moved beyond such concerns” in a way that say having a ranking officer use a wheelchair would be.
I will say something they did right was that his visor gives him headaches. It’s very in line with what folks with cochlear implants or very strong eyeglass prescriptions describe.