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.
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.
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.