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After 60 years, it was nice to see myself (lol) up on the screen too
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Congrats, @Stamets.
I'm almost through my first watch of Discovery and I'm amazed at what I'm seeing. I'm happy to hear that character portrayals like this are getting the thumbs-up from the community.
I'll throw in that, as a sensitive cis-het male myself, seeing emotionally in-touch authority figures like Saru and Pike make me feel seen. Older Trek shows just didn't have that, with men oscillating between horny and angry as their entire emotional range. So it's not just Stamets' composite (and super wholesome) family. IMO, the writers are clearly trying to bring a better portrayal of humanity to the screen.
Disco stands out at the Star Trek series that really commits to queer representation rather than shoving it in the background and/or discarding it (looking at you, Picard and to a lesser extent LD). At the end of season 3 I was floored when Stamets described Adira as his child because I could definitely see the found family trope progressing and was mentally joking he should adopt them, I just didn't expect it to pop up from subtext to text. It definitely feels like a more modern discussion of queerness than past series did.
...not sure how I feel about them destroy the subtlety of Trill as trans metaphors though. It's cool, it just feels very heavy-handed.
probably the only parts of discovery I was disappointed about was Tilly captaining 😭
OMG I know! I loved every minute of it! I just finished Discovery tonight and the found family is my favorite thing about it. The only part that was a little shaky to me was the scene where Adira told everyone they wanted to use they/them pronouns. It felt a little forced, and a little voice inside me was like "aww it's the distant future, is this still an uncomfortable topic?" And that thought made me kind of sad. But, as a way of presenting it to the audience of the current day, I guess it was fine.
Well shit, now I need to go catch up on discovery. I’m not even sure where I left off!