Kind of yeah, but Gene Roddenberry used allegories like the half black and half white dudes who hated each other - which took more effort than having characters just walk around in the present saying, "Wow, look at all the social injustice."
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Hey, i'm an old fart and guess how many times i heard people say that exact same shit about TNG? The pussy version of trek, nothing like its predecessor, all they do is talk about their emotions!
I'm an old fart too. I had a friend who said all they did on TNG was sit up straight and say, "Engage."
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Because that's what you had to do to get past the executives and the censors in the 1960s.
Just like how "Last Train to Clarksville" is about Vietnam.
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That was an allegory??? (/s)
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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.
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.
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)
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?
How about making it, say, Detmer?
Who? You sort of trailed off there; all I'm seeing is a blank space.
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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.
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.
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.
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Hey now hey now!
It's a cashless classless society, it's about economic class justice, too!
That part's just more in the background.
Not for Sisko it isn’t. I wish I’d been born on the other side of the Bell riots and WW3 but at least we have cool digital watches now
We really should never have left the oceans.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
EDIT: I only noticed the username after I posted this, since it's clear this is what you were making reference to ha
I mean, my watch is pretty sweet. It’s the damn little green pieces of paper that are causing all the problems
Have you tried... moving them around?
What an odd thought though, it's not like they are the ones unhappy:-).