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Share the feeling.
I personally never buy the fridging a character to ‘make it real’ argument, but it seems to have a great deal of sway with a certain generation of writers.
Unfortunately the EP/writers arguing this are almost always heterosexual cisgendered males and the characters fridged are almost always women, LGBTQ+ or in the case of Hemmer, a person with disability.
And like most systemic bias, they just don’t seem to see the issue. After the backlash from killing off Culber in the first season of Discovery, Akiva Goldsman (and Alex Kurtzman who signs off on the season arcs), should have been more hesitant to repeat the situation with another representation character. I don’t doubt their progressive values, but this can only be understood as an enormous blind spot.