Why Star Trek: Discovery Never Quite Worked
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But when "The Fandom Menace" and various other long time Star Trek fans pointed all this out long ago we were called waycist, sexist, homophobic, white supremacist, nazis.
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"I would, however, be remiss if I didn't state some of the things "Discovery" did amazingly right. In terms of representation and depicting a utopian crew of varied humanity, "Discovery" was first-rate. In addition to featuring a Black woman in the lead, there are no less than four openly queer characters. Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) and Lt. Stamets (Anthony Rapp) are happily married, and have adopted a non-binary child named Adira (Blu Del Barrio) who is, in turn, in love with a young man named Gray played a trans/masc actor (Ian Alexander) who uses they/them pronouns. Trek wasn't always great about queer representation. Here, they are happy to be open about it. This was done 100% right. "
Lol, when the only good thing about the show is the diversity push ...
Yeah, we knew, everyone knew.
Yeah, creating characters whose SOLE character trait is "being gay" was "amazingly right". Tell me something about Stamet's childhood or even his personal interests ASIDE from him "being gay". Oh, that's right, you can't!
If I was gay, I'd be insulted by one-dimensional "representation" like that!
He was an albino???
Wait, did I get the right gay out of the two? (I'm just sarcastic :) )
Non binary..... Pansexual.....
Yuck. American mental instability inserted in an ST show. I'm reminded why I didn't even finish season 1. The only reason I am rewatching up to season 2 is for Pike and Spock alone. STD truly is fitting for the show.