Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek

merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Dr crusher also kisses a woman in that one episode that introduced the trill.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You could maybe argue that there was a hint at a pro-Trans story there. She falls for a guy, but the person she thinks she fell for isn’t actually the person she thought, and in the end it’s a girl. But, she decides not to continue the relationship after that final twist. And it’s also one episode in a very long series and Crusher is clearly straight… even if the Trill is maybe bisexual, or maybe pansexual.

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    • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      she decides not to continue the relationship

      Pretty handwavy when the context is a literal conversion therapy analogue.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They even had to make it clear that Tasha Yar wasn’t a lesbian by having her fuck a sex robot.

  Hey, not a sex robot, a robot capable of sex… there’s a difference…I think 🤔

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Even as a joke, it felt wrong to refer to Data that way. XD

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    • DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Forget Brent Spinner as data, give me that independence day drip

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m glad someone caught that. :)

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    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m glad you’re glad 🥰

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean, they’re trying to make a joke but it kinda works better with, idk, Voyager or something (well, maybe gay or black comment but certainly more diverse and highlighting stuff like cultural diversity).

  That said, I’ve seen this exact joke about wokeness already but with TOS, so eh.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure, they’re trying to make a joke. But, when this kind of thing works as a joke you can go through each item in the list and say “hmm, yeah, I guess” even if as a whole it’s clearly not true.

    In this case, some of the list items just make no sense, like “black people everywhere” or “pushes gay agenda”. If they’d stuck with “woke” and “a captain that Trekkies hated” it could have worked.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Didn’t DS9 have someone in a wheelchair at some point? There’s some hand wavy explanation is to why she was in a wheelchair that I can’t remember but they even made the point that the space station isn’t particularly disable access compliant.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    She is a member of a nonhuman species that evolved on a planet with low gravity. They evolved in a way that makes then physiologically incompatible with the gravity that most other species experience. It’s an example of how a person’s level of physical ability and required accommodation often depend on the environment. It also challenges the viewer to reconsider whether she should be treated like a disabled person.

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  • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of Ensign Melora Pazlar; her home planet’s gravity was less strong than what most humanoids are used to so she needed the chair. She was outfitted in a regular wheelchair because the Cardassians (as you might imagine) don’t care much about disability so the station had no way to be outfitted for use with an anti-grav. chair.

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