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GuyFleegman@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s not a particularly unique perspective, many Trekkies choose to process Star Trek as “historical documents.” There’s a movie about it.

What I don’t understand why you’ve assigned this theoretical camera crew the intent of “get the camera on the gay dudes, stat” when “get the camera on the relationship between the two main characters” is a much simpler explanation. There are entire episodes dedicated to Odo & Kira, Paris & Torres or Trip & T’Pol relationship drama. Stamets & Culber screen time pales in comparison.

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MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not a huge fan of relationships in media to begin with (unless it’s somehow tied into the plot), so it’s possible I’m being more critical and skeptical than I should be. I’m not exactly cishet so I’m not sure that’s really it, but as someone else pointed out it’s still not super common for gay characters, especially male characters, to be shown as being romantically involved, which can be jarring when you’re not used to it. Dunno, it’s weird.

That’s not a particularly unique perspective, many Trekkies choose to process Star Trek as “historical documents.” There’s a movie about it.

That’s kinda interesting, do you remember what the movie is called? I might watch it at some point.

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- GuyFleegman@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  but as someone else pointed out it’s still not super common for gay characters, especially male characters, to be shown as being romantically involved, which can be jarring when you’re not used to it. Dunno, it’s weird.
  
  Yep, many people still struggle with it. What do you think it would take to change this?
  
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