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

captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
honestly i think DS9 strikes a better balance. and it too was disliked at the time for going against what star trek was.

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Jamablaya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I mean, the one with the half white half black face dudes was not subtle

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- BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  True, but that was one episode, not every scene of every episode.
  
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Manalith@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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  - Manalith@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ah, that’s fair, I was a child when I first watched the series so I don’t think I ever really registered the visor as a disability given that being blind doesn’t hinder him at all, besides the aforementioned headaches that rarely come up.
    
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