Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.

• jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actually, as I recall the entire society was ‘non-binary’ and that specific alien wanted to come out as female. And of course Riker banging was a green light after she declared herself female. Probably not the best choice to have Riker banging her as part of the narrative, but yeah, that was famously an example of them trying to address a point by inverting real-world, the ‘norm’ is non-binary and the ‘unusual’ one is gendered and the Federation serves as the model of ‘we respect your people either way, you should too’.

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s right, the entire species had evolved past having gender. That makes it even sadder/funnier that ST:D tried to claim it.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      startrek.com/…/star-trek-discovery-introduces-fir…

      Is where they officially declared that Trek was doing a non-binary character for the first time.

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      • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Star Trek universe’s first non-binary character

        wow, not even the first crew members or first actors, they tried to claim it for the whole Star Trek universe. unbelievable.

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