• @[email protected]
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    They were even more upfront about it in TOS for some issues too.

    I remember many instances where they say “We have women in our crew in the future.” It’s not like DISCO flaunted around saying “we don’t hate gay people in this ship.”

    Like I understand that DISCO isn’t everybody’s favorite, and sure it has some issues, but all the flak it got for being “woke” and “preachy” was weird to me.

    Part of Kirk’s whole thing was preachy speeches, and Picard had many moments too.

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      I quite agree STD wasn’t everyone’s favourite, in any case it wasn’t mine, although I really tried. But whining about it being woke was just stupid.

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      Saying discovery is woke with their crew split in two parts, the queer ones all packed together and then the “normal” ones, seems like a stretch.

      The gay couple basically adopts the non binary one who is in a couple with the trans one, are friends with the gay engineer, but barely even talk to the rest of the crew? Ah and sex scenes between straight people but the most the gay couple gets is sitting next to each other, brushing teeth and a small kiss (not that it’s a bad thing on its own, it forced the writing to actually show a relationship and not just a bunch of sex, which is positive)

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        but the most the gay couple gets is sitting next to each other, brushing teeth and a small kiss

        While you’re absolutely right, I think the record should show that tooth brushing scene is one of the sexiest scenes in television history. Those two have some serious on-screen chemistry.

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          Once again, the “don’t show too much gay” policy they seem to have forced them to show a relationship through actual intimacy, in contrast to the usual “relationship=sex” that shows usually have (which we can see with most heterosexual relationships in the same show, for example). Even the doctor that is portrayed by an actor that, let’s say, likes to show his body (most of the google results are him half naked) was not sexualized stupidly like they usually would ; a positive thing, except that it’s probably only because they don’t want to “show the gay” (Book for example is always naked and fucking).

          So yeah, taken independently it’s a better relationship image than most relationships in most shows, but in the context it’s pretty horrible.

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            So yeah, taken independently it’s a better relationship image than most relationships in most shows, but in the context it’s pretty horrible.

            Absolutely. I think a lot of the audience realize that if they weren’t a gay couple, we would see them with their shirts off together at every opportunity.

            The silver lining is that the actors are so attractive and doing such a beautiful and convincing job, that the omission makes the show runners look prudish and silly.

      • Flying SquidM
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        That did really bother me, shoehorning all the queer people into their own little box after being far more progressive in previous seasons. Literally anyone else on the crew could have adopted Adira (who I didn’t really care much for as a character anyway, she was basically SNW Uhura but not as good an actor), but they had it be Stamets and Culber. How about making it, say, Detmer?

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          How about making it, say, Detmer?

          Who? You sort of trailed off there; all I’m seeing is a blank space.

          • Flying SquidM
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            How dare you talk about my pretend girlfriend like that!

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      The only issue disco has ever actually had is their serialized episodes. People hate on the other shit cause they’re bigots. Its still good Trek. The story is just less flexible.

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        it’s still good Trek

        Everything with Pike and crew and pretty much everyone except Michael is decent Trek. Deus ex Burnham in every century Starfleet exists in is boring as shit and the nacelles not even being attached to the ship anymore is veering into Star Wars level of nonsensical ship design.

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        The only issue disco has ever actually had is their serialized episodes.

        And not spending enough on light bulbs in some episodes. I wondered if my TV was broken, at one point. Lol.

      • @turmacar
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        I just wish a single ship weren’t saving the Federation/Galaxy/Multiverse every season.

        It also waffles hard between “The important part of the Federation is it’s ideals” and “Section 31 is pretty badass right?”.

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          Have yet to see anything outside of DS9 use Section 31 well. It’s inclusion manages to turn what’s supposed to be a hopeful story of the future into just another police procedural that happens to use Star Trek™ branded props

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            Yeah it’s nuts how it went from “These are the bad guys. This is antithetical to the point of Star Trek and the Federation.” to “Secret agents in space that can just shoot ‘bad’ guys is cool though right?”

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          Section 31 is pretty badass, right?

          I have to say, I hated that. It feels like C suite “promote our upcoming show” meddling, to me.

    • @marcos
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      It’s not like DISCO flaunted around saying “we don’t hate gay people in this ship.”

      Well, after DS 9 it would just be repetitive. Also TNG spent a few episodes on this exact point, but it wasn’t a main topic.

      But people tend to focus their complains about things being “preachy” when those things put the preach above the story-telling. DISCO absolutely had this flaw in some point or another. Never for very long, though, so it really wasn’t a main characteristic. Anyway, when a show is simply good, almost nobody gets bothered by the preaching.