It was woke then too.
Hold up… Kira is bisexual?
Well, mirror Kira was if I remember correctly.
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Just gonna throw this out there…
I was referring to Kira on Kira action.
This is what it appears to be.
That’s Dax
Lmao, I know who that is!
Thank you, ummthatguy.
Traumatized Goo
I see they put O’Brien on this list, but then which one is Odo?
He’s the Unionist.
✨ even better! He was a union man ✨
I don’t remember the series that well… did he learn how to impersonate an Irishman?
Odo is an identity-seeking pre-proto-fascist who redeems himself. (pre and proto both because he’s not a fascist but he might have become one if the
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(pre and proto both because he’s not a fascist but he might have become one if the Kardassians Cardassians kept power)
Disagree there. If there is one thing we know about Odo, it is that he has a very strong moral code and a strict sense of justice. Even when Terok Nor was under Cardassian Rule.
I would not disagree in the slightest that he has a very strict moral code. And that’s exactly why I said what I said.
Because the strict code Odo lives by is one of following rules.
During the Cardassian occupation, he worked as the rules told him to, unbiased. But the thing is that immoral men can make bad rules.
Perhaps proto-fascist is a bit strong. Proto-authoritarian maybe. But either way, he clearly doesn’t go that way, and like I said, redeems himself.
In Tribunal, he talked about how he started out that way, but after executing three innocent Bajorans for a terrorist attack, he learned the meaning of justice.
He was also only brought aboard Terok Nor in the first place because he was seen as a neutral third party.
“… because he was seen as a neutral third party.”
Sort of my point, really.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
Right, but what I am saying is that he figured out on his own while Cardassians were still occupying the station what justice meant and that it didn’t mean just following the rules.
*Kardashians
Oh fuck it’s with a c.
Haven’t watched in a while and due to my native language sometimes it’s easy to confuse this shit. But also am very much not sober so more excuses from that as well.
Perfectly excusable on either count. Please, feel no embarrassment. Plus, this is one of the funniest mistakes I’ve ever seen!
^ I see what you did there 😏 😉 😂
Monologuing protoplasm
Is Eddington communist himbo? Rom?
Bareil?
Communist? More like priest himbo I would think.
Rom quotes Karl Marx, forms a union, and organizes a workers strike in “Bar Association.” I’m assuming that’s mostly where this comes from, though there were also some reforms he instituted near the end of the series.
Communist sure, but himbo?
Yeah, himbo definition is unattractive and Rom is a sexy beast! How else did he land a knockout like Leeta?
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It’s Worf. Rom wasn’t a main character.
Thank you. That’s the only one I didn’t recognize immediately, haha. Poor delightful faithful Rom.
took me a sec, too. i only remembered because i’ve seen this meme before
Thanks for asking, I was racking my brain trying to figure it out
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Dear Paramount: Doctor Twink and his boyfriend Fashion Lizard is a spinoff I would 100% watch every week.
Thank you.
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Case closed.
And an impressionable young mind opened
That’s not the only thing that opened
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Haha why do you guys call him Doctor Twink? The man was a horn dog, chasing tail on the daily.
Oh my god yes. My Dinner With Andre style. Just the two of them flirting for an hour.
Where do people find fanfic for Star Trek? Asking for a friend.
I would watch that over and over again.
It’s ok - he’s just a plain… simple… tailor.
The hypothetical discussions will be, without irony, absolutely riveting.
Out of all the shows I’ve seen over the decades, out of all the characters I’ve seen, Garek is probably my absolute favorite. When top tier writing meets top tier acting. Beautiful.
You should read the novel that the actor wrote. It’s the back story of the character, and the first of hundreds of start trek books I’ve been reading.
And he narrates the audiobook himself!
Oooh that’s a nice plus
So just god emperor of dune then
They forgot Libertarian Alien who’s there for comedic relief. His kooky libertarian plans reliably blow up in his face like Wile E. Coyote.
Quite woke of them to give representation to a conservative too. We wouldn’t want to ignore any minorities. Not unless they shrink into nothingness. I hope.
Conservatism … in DS9 they gave them an entire planet called Ferenginar.
I’m really loving the episodes with Brunt, Liquidator of the Ferengi Commerce Authority … if any being in the galaxy embodies taxation, it’s Brunt. I love him because I absolutely hate him, a truly genius piece of character creation.
Jeffrey Combs is the most underrated actor of the 90s.
Combs also said of Brunt, “He was the IRS guy from hell. He’s the guy who just kept coming back to make your life miserable, audit after audit after audit. I can imagine that that would be pretty awful. He also typified to me the inflexibility of someone who thinks their way is the right way.”
And now the Himbo is their king
The first interracial kiss on TV was between Kirk and Uhura in 1968. Star Trek is and always has been set in a time when humans have achieved a post-scarcity leftist utopian. Shit’s been this way since way before your uncle started calling everything he doesn’t like “woke” which was only like 4 years ago for the record.
Know what was really woke? Keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics. For real. I’m quoting this article lol.
Anything that progressives do is something they try to turn into a curse. They even try it with the word progress and progressive, but it doesn’t have the same effect which they really struggle with.
And DS9 is the conservative one with all the religion and the baseball and the war crimes and stuff.
TNG was run by a Frenchman who thought allowing bronze age species to believe in God was a barbaric act and went to bat as a human rights lawyer for an android who in turn let his first child pick their gender at will. All that while his polyamorous first officer was busy arguing against conversion therapy when pushed upon his trans nonbinary partner.
Uh… He wasn’t against allowing anyone to believe in a god of gods. He only took issue with people worshipping “The Picard” and Ardra scamming.
He gave a speech about how they had moved past religion and he wasn’t going to allow them to go back to superstition
I looked it up.
Horrifying. Dr. Barron, your report describes how rational these people are. Millennia ago, they abandoned their belief in the supernatural. Now you are asking me to sabotage that achievement, to send them back into the dark ages of superstition and ignorance and fear? NO!
Man was such an atheist I’m mildly surprised he isn’t more of a terminally online conservative. He’s too pro-choice, though, so I think we’re safe.
He knew Ardra was a phony, but still passed up the opportunity.
That takes some restraint and willpower, as opposed to Will-power, cause we all know Riker would.
It doesn’t take any willpower when you’re this man-
While I don’t doubt he (or Picard) could have bagged Cindy Crawford, you can tell they weren’t in the same room based on lighting and shadows.
Why would you expect them to be in the same room for the cover of some TV Guide in the first place?
Huh. Didn’t know that was a thing. Way more effort than I thought was ever put into a cover of a TV magazine.
As much as Renee O’Connor was amazing as Gabrielle, I wouldn’t mind Jeri in that role 👀…
Let’s be real. Picard probably worships the koala.
He’s met it enough times at this point that it’s not belief. You don’t believe in a fact.
Have you been in a coma and missed the birth and growth of this terrible thing called social media?
You mean that place where you don’t believe in facts?
You don’t?
Wait, I thought we all did. Which is why I suggested a superior being such as JLP also does.
Fair enough. May your day be blessed by the holy breath of eucalyptus.
And may you always feel his weird double thumbed hands guiding you in your daily mod report decisions. Channel your inner Dukat.
Nah. There is a whole omnipotent being with a massive crush on him and Picard treats him like a nuisance he deals with at regular intervals. First thing he did when Q got briefly depowered was put him in the brig.
Picard knows the Koala is real but he has zero respect for cosmic marsupials in general.
Yeah DS9 was good, but it took me a long time to get past the fact that they made the Federation freaking space NATO. Martial law, biological weapons on your own citizens, papers please, most with the subtext (or lengthy deleted personal log) that morality is for peace time, and some of your favorite values should be abandoned when the stakes are high.
I think ENT is the most conservative tbh. Who else would go that far to get revenge for Florida?
I haven’t gotten past that, to be honest.
To this day I have a visceral reaction to all the online nerds complaining about NuTrek not being Starfleet enough but having memory holed that DS9 got that exact pushback at the time for honestly way more legitimate reasons.
And look at how DS9 is seen now.
But to be fair, do you really think the future will look back at Discovery the same way?
Hm… had season 5 been better, maybe. Like Discovery it starts with a different tone and then it finds itself, but it unfortunately ends in a bit of a dud. I think seasons 2-4 are good to great, though, it’s just never quite as smart as TNG.
Season 1 is… underrated? It buckles under the pressure of expectations as a revival to kickstart a whole new era, but I think as a movie it would have worked pretty well, honestly. Better than most of the cheap fluff they put in theatres during the TNG movie era.
But I also think DS9 is overrated. besides the straight-up bad wheelspin-y early episodes, my last rewatch ended when they spent a whole show making O’Brian argue for doing a bit of murder, then doing a bunch of murder himself and then the show being so much in agreement with him that this is taken as a bit of a teachable moment.
It’s been decades and I was still pissed. At least Michael got court martialled.
Season 1
I mean, how many Star Treks have a great Season 1? Other than SNW :P
I am not a mega Star Trek fan and skipped Discovery after season 1 TBH, but maybe I will go back and look at the later seasons, thanks.
True. I was in a genuine rage halfway through Lower Decks season 1 and I’m now actively in “Save Lower Decks” team.
I do recommend going back in your situation, then, because it really becomes a whole different show. Especially if you did enjoy SNW, the vibe of Season 2 is different but the characters are consistent, so it’s a natural jump-in point.
Random recommendation at risk of being off topic, but you have to watch Pantheon (the animated TV series) if you like Lower Decks, assuming you haven’t seen it already.
I just discovered it and… holy heck. It’s incredible, and no one knows about it because the distribution/release is a disaster. It’s honestly some of the best sci fi I’ve consumed anywhere, period.
Woke isn’t bad because representation it’s bad because preaching
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Preaching is only necessary until the nazis are eliminated.
honestly thought people here of all places would understand that Piccard is the king of preaching.
anyway, I thought it was funny so that’s really all that really matters, stay mad and remember the internet is real life kids.
Are we head canoning Kira as bi now or is she including mirror universe Kira in this? Or maybe I missed something in several watches.
Mirror Kira is only bold enough to do what regular Kira couldn’t. We all know she thought about it.
This is my problem with this meme whenever it comes up.
There are so many direct occasions to bring up representation and acceptance in Star Trek, so why do people always jump straight into platonic erasure and make up sexualities that aren’t there?
I for one always loved the ability for people in Trek to work and live close to each other and develop deep friendships without resorting to coupling up. Turning every friendship into something more romantic just seems disrespectful, because people are perfectly capable of being friends without needing to make something more of it
I like your speech. Let’s fuck.
Babe, this ‘platonic erasure’ comes from the original airings.
It was the 90’s, we were starved of everything. There was no overt representation. The comm still operated heavily in code, so if a show threw us circumspection we read between the lines.
You got Jadzia’s kiss, you got Riker and the androgynous species, and all of Intendant Kira.
I’m not saying those few cases are enough representation (Kira being arguably a bad example, making her sexuality into a more “evil” trait), but they were definitely overt. On the other hand, there’s zero basis for saying Prime Kira was bi, and Doctor Twink was quite straight, no matter how gay Garak was.
Honestly, I thought Julian and Garak was perfectly executed. Garak may have been flirty, but Julian was obviously more enamored with the spy scenario and intrigue (as we delved deeper into in Our Man Bashir and to some degree, the Section 31 episodes).
Oh a kiss in a doomed relationshipl! An evil, abusive dictator and another doomed romance that ended in what was essentially a lobotomy! Our cups truly ranneth over
I guess your attention span ran out after four words, so you ignored the rest of the explanation
But that’s a you problem
Got nothing else so you resort to insults? Poor form.
I really get the feeling you were not queer in the 90’s, and you’re trying to backfill what it was like. As someone who was (and still is, well the queer part at least) you’re getting it terribly wrong
It’s not “nothing else”, you just ignored the rest of what I said. Literally everything in your last post was already addressed in what I said
If you took that as an insult, well… I’ve already said it.
People are weird. Trying to see things that aren’t there. Because…? Hell if I know. I’m just here for the shows. Not to question who might bang who.
Wokeness is not the issue with disco, et al. It’s terrible writing, poor science even for soft sci fi, and too many cringey moments.
I get that some people love it. But the emotional resolution porn is, to me, just icky.
Stamets is coming for you.
I know. He and I are very close. My question is how you know.
Don’t eat the shrooms!
Too late!
Directions unclear: am now critical navigation equipment for starship.
Yes. We’re gay lovers.
Ah. Yes, one should always be open about one’s entanglements.
Totally agreed, shnookums
:D
There’s so much wrong with it. Where’s the 80s office décore?
If it doesn’t have some elements of kitsch, it’s not Star Trek.
Star Trek is NOT a Netflix production that can be churned out with improved dark, edgy, and abstract lighting, sleek sets, and dutch angle cinematography… Star Trek is a series of Hallmark SciFi philosophy questions, set on fresh carpet with weird sculptures and props throughout.
Star Trek is NOT a Netflix production that can be churned out with improved dark, edgy, and abstract lighting, sleek sets, and dutch angle cinematography…
Well… It’s exactly like almost all the others. Netflix managed to hit some 3 shows that got improved this way.
My biggest problem with Discovery is that whenever they see something interesting they have to cut to a reaction shot to every single person on the bridge but don’t even show us what they’re seeing.
My second biggest problem is the writing. They don’t talk like Starfleet, they talk like people from the 2020s.
This sums Dico up perfectly for me. I consider myself “woke”, I share the values they are advocating in Disco very much. But it’s just. So. Shoved. Into. It.
It’s not subtle, it’s not something coming naturally to the story in most cases. It’s just badly writen into a already badly written overall show.
And that, to be honest, is a shame.
For a great example of this sort of thing done right, compare The Expanse books to the show.
The books kinda glossed over the head of the fucking entire earth’s story and plotline. In the show, she was a highlight. Also, a few characters were merged into one female character, and women, in general, were given more prevalence. Poly relationships were given good voice, and overall, things just fit and felt natural.
That is to say: It can be done right. Disco just doesn’t do right, imo.
I never watched the expanse with that angle in mind, but after you said it I have to agree. Just says something about how natural it was done when it just doesn’t stand out from the rest of the story at all.
Hardest part of liking Disco for me was I couldn’t shake the feeling they stretched Star Treks skin over another shows pilot/first season.
This actually makes a lot of sense. You might be right.
I disagree that it’s because of ‘‘shoved’’ or overt politics. It’s just God awful writing and a terrible idea for a ST show. They made it a chronological story about one protagonist. There’s consistent bridge crew we don’t even know their names, their character or story, or even get to hear them talk besides ‘‘there’s a [thing] captain!’’ Type of shit.
No ensemble stories, no stand alone stories, and very close to no science fiction at all. It’s all just trying to give you high stakes action scenes with close to nothing else happening.
Wait, who is the trans worm supposed to be?
Dax and all trills?
And the bisexual terrorist?
That would be Kira. Although I don’t think she was really bisexual either. The mirror universe Kira had like a narcissistic crush on non-mirror universe Kira if I remember correctly.
Oh, right, Mirror Kira definitely was, true. But our Kira was pretty focused on the one organ. I guess unless Odo counts as another gender.
Odo is quite literally gender-fluid.
In a wordplay way, sure, but he consistently presents male. In contrast to the character who is literally referred to as “the female changeling”.
Still takes a spirit of adventure at least
Yeah, he does quite literally identify as male.
She has better chemistry with Keiko and Miles than she does with Odo.
I forgot the symbiote was a worm thing. They really only showed that in one episode if I remember correctly, and that was already a retcon from what they did in TNG originally. I was also confused by the trans part because the symbiote doesn’t really have a gender identity, the host does.
Her swapping genders is…SOMETHING.
Lets just call it trans and go get a drink.
I’m totally fine with that. I just thought it was a confusing description at first because I forgot about the symbiote being a “worm” thing.
Also, I too love cheese…
I find it telling that all they had to do in order to make being trans “acceptable” on TV was to make them be an alien species with an even more alien critter living inside them. And it worked, nobody ever questioned it even a little bit.
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Dax was Spock of DS9: a character who’s wise and you can always rely on and who will help you with its experience. “Talk to me, Old Man” was the line aye. But of course both of its incarnations we could see weren’t perfect - none of the DS9 characters were. They all had flaws, highs and downs and that was really nicely captured by the writers. Hell, that’s why Ronald D Moore’s Galactica worked and was popular because he incorporated similar character writing style.
Anyway, I could and I still can watch episode with Lenara Kahn without projecting our reality onto it - it’s a tragic love story of two individuals separated by standards and customs, who play a dangerous game of breaking taboo set by the Trill society. Jadzia and Lenara suffered and so did Ezri when she arrived on the station - new there in this new environment and new body yet still the same among familiar faces. Again feeling the pressure of her home world and culture which she luckily withstand. Few times in the series writers dealt with how a joined individual is perceived, how that works on relations with people. The gender stuff never played back then any significant part of this species - maybe because show was overall written in a way audience didn’t have to be explained or educated. Sure, the kiss scene was a controversial one but people moved on; neither in my country this particular episode and scene got any attention.
On the other hand, Discovery Trill plot was barely watchable to me because it was there just to fill quota set by today’s media - there’s of course a tragedy and love story but it all feels really superficial and forced. Not mention actors performance was poor but that applies to most of the characters in that show.
To sum this up, yes Trill symbionts are perceived for some reason as trans representation. But that is a totally anthropocentric view, from our real world, slapped onto the fictional universe with action set in the future.
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Fuck off transphobe
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And yet you think that trans women don’t look like and behave like women (they are women and saying otherwise is in itself transphobic), rather than understand that you just don’t realize that the trans women who do pass as cis are trans.
Because I doubt you’d know this woman was trans if you saw her walking down the street with her elegant model’s walk.
Also, please tell us how a woman or a man is supposed to behave.
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It’s obvious to me that most trans women do not look or behave like women.
Again, you have no way of knowing that. All you know is that you have seen trans people who you assumed were trans. My wife works with a cis woman who has rather masculine features and even a mustache. You would probably think she was trans.
You have no idea what is between someone’s legs unless you can see for yourself.
This is what I meant by friction that most trans people both suffer from and cause.
You can claim to not be transphobic, but when you then victim-blame trans people for being the cause of their own problems, you are.
I’m guessing you wouldn’t say that other queer people, such as a gay man, does not cause friction by being gay.
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… Star Trek is and has always been woke. It’s like the core feature of Star Trek
ToS had the first interracial kiss shown on television. And then there was this entire episode.
Still this over VOY clown episode tbh
It wasn’t the 1st interracial kiss on TV. By some metrics it was the 1st in the US but other countries had earlier kisses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television
I think it’s most notable for the conservative American censorship.
Being the first on American television was a significant achievement considering how they deal with censorship there. Americans have always been a bit stunted when it comes to accepting diversity.
