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Yeah, that had big "actually the transporter can do basically anything and could and should win every battle" nerding out energy.
You might like this, then. Or hate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRk2nxjYHM
Oh, I know it.
It felt like aftershocks of the staggering homophobic and racist rage inferno that broke out when Jar Jar Binks first came to theaters.
I so get you about why Stamets mattered. He was a fun recurring guest character on Star Trek Online too and had lots of spoken dialogue with the usual "funny yet depressed" vibes.
I'm old enough that I still groan when I hear percolating returns of the "DAE KIRK KILLED OR FUCKED EVERYTHING THAT MOVED" ultra-Flanderization
of decades past.
How much actual Those Old Scientists did those people watch? It's hard for me to think of a single Klingon that Kirk actually killed with direct action on-screen in the original show, for example.
Flanderization is a fuck.
Oh god. We have joke murderer.
It's interesting because it kind of highlights how a lot people perceive Star Trek technobabble (or at least, the pop-cultural understanding they have of it) as being incoherent nonsense when a lot of the shows have put in a lot of effort into making it not that. One of the most annoying things about the newer Treks is that apparently the writers at CBS started believing it too, causing them to take less care with technobabble in those shows and actually writing a bunch of nonsense.
I'm thinking of Picard being a cyborg now (before everybody just agreed not to talk about it), but I'd have to rewatch disco to get a more specific example and I'm not doing that. It's a feeling I have that I admittedly could be off base on.