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Why didn't those people get outraged with Jadzia's lesbian kiss in DS9 in the 90ies?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Rejoined_Dax_and_Lenara_kiss.png
one theory is that ds9 was fucking great and discovery waa poo poo.
which had fuck all to do with gay people. I mean, I guess it may have in a sense now thst I think abojt it, but only in the narrowest of ways and as an overt symptom of 2 dimensional character writing. Paul Stamets' partner's whole character was basically "I'm a gay doctor", which combined with "my whole character is that I have anxiety" Tilly and Michale "I have problems with authority" Burnham really show how weak the writing was.
which, if you stop and think about it, has anout as much do with being gay as flowers do with the plot of The Room.
I tried to watch Discovery. Forced myself through season one and only could manage a few episodes in season two.
The writing is just so bad, I can't handle it. This coming from someone that regularly rewatches older Trek and DOESN'T SKIP the few awful episodes.
I forced myself through every episode. It picked up and I got kinda into it and then crying space baby shit happened and threw it all away.
By the point we saw the crying space baby, my expectations were already very low 😂
The whole concept of The Burn annoyed me from the beginning. It's not that it makes less sense than warp drive or subspace comms, but it somehow didn't fit with the established "science" of Star Trek.