Chakotay- *Sees holo-Janeway* Kathryn!! My darling!! My darling!!!! *goes in for a Frencher, passes through her, we see his tongue go out the back of her neck just before he faceplants on the ground* *Sad trombone*
Prodigy cast interviews. https://trekmovie.com/2021/10/11/nycc-panel-reveals-how-prodigy-will-guide-new-fans-into-star-trek/ Overall impression from their quotes, and the footage we saw yesterday, is Prodigy will give new fans the ABCs and 123s of Trek. So, the deliberate opposite of Lower Decks, which is pretty damned lore heavy. Like, the kids in the holo-Janeway clip don't even know what the Federation is. It's training wheels Trek.
Fuck it, I'm not seeing it until the blu-rays are out. They're not doing a UK release via Amazon Prime or Netflix like they do for LDS/PIC or DSC (respectively). Instead, they're putting it out on Sky Cinema for those without Paramount+. Not signing up to add that to my Sky package just for one show.
If they don't show it for free on the Sci-Fi Channel here in Canada (like they do with the other Trek shows), I'm going full-on . No fucking way am I paying to see anything with Janeway and Chakotay in it.
It looks like it’s going to be a huge problem for the billions of genders and non binary people of the future that are still a huge minority in the galaxy
Most of the human race isn't American, but they're sure as shit (over)represented in every Trek series to date. Why complain about some other groups getting their moment?
Lubak's just pissed that there's only been one Canadian in Trek, and they made HIM say his character was from Iowa.
There’s one thing that the LGBTQ community either hasn’t considered or is conveniently ignoring about the possibilities in the future, but I think that’s a RR discussion.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that in the future, especially 1,000 years from now that genetic defects that leads to transgenders and homosexuality could be eliminated.
TNG still had bald human men and fat human men, despite 20th century medical science having "cures" for both. Whenever someone used to ask "why don't they have a cure for baldness in the 24th century?" the most common response I'd see was "they don't consider it as something that requires a cure anymore." I feel like it'd be the same way for different sexual orientations or gender identities, except that GRS would likely be as quick and easy in the future as dying ones hair is today. Remember when Bashir transformed Quark into a female indistinguishable from a cis one? Or when he turned Sisko, Odo and O'Brien into Klingons? I'm sure none of them minded having that second dick for a while. EDIT: Oh, and "genetic defects?" I thought it was Instagram and Tiktok and evil socialist parents making kids "choose" to be gay or trans because they made it look so trendy.
So do you turn off the TV every time "the masterpiece society" comes on, cuz they didn't kill Geordi?
What makes you think that homosexuality is a "genetic defect"? Being trans might be a genetic defect, or it might not be. Biology, as they say, is messy and "wires" sometimes get crossed. However, it's important to note that for a long time being left-handed was considered the equivalent of a "genetic defect." Even once you got away from the crazy idea that many religious people had that this somehow meant you were in league with the devil, there was the argument that left-handedness was rarely seen in other species besides humans and that lefties tended to have health problems at a greater level than righties do. Which raised the question: Why didn't "natural selection" eliminate left-handedness? Well, it turns out, that being left-handed isn't always a disadvantage, and that if you were a lefty in combat against a righty, it could actually be an advantage. Not a huge one, but just enough that the conditions that would normally eliminate something like left-handedness from the gene pool were eliminated. Sort of like how the house has only about a 1% advantage when it comes to gambling, but that's enough to ensure that it is far more profitable to run a gambling house than it is to be a professional gambler.
It's also worth noting that while Grey is played by a trans actor, I can't recall anything in any episode that actually identifies Grey himself as transgender. He was a trill host, he loved Adira, he's dead, now he's a force ghost. That's all. Adira is specifically depicted as identifying as non-binary once they're able to connect with Tal properly, but that seems like more of a side effect of a very young human receiving a very old symbiont without any sort of preparation or mental training to help them manage the flood of memories. (They touched on that a little in the post-DS9 novels, with Ezri angrily telling a representative of the symbiosis commission that she was doing just fine, and the commission rep gently pointing out that she'd unconsciously emulated at least four different predecessors during her rant.) But regardless, we don't watch Star Trek expecting to see a documentary about life in the 24th or 32nd century, we watch it to see people we can relate to overcoming similarly relatable obstacles with a fun sci-fi filter on top of all of it. Pulaski could have shown up and erased Picard's entire memory of being assimilated by the Borg, or given him a hypospray that cures PTSD and makes his farts smells like cupcakes, but watching JLP struggle to process those experiences like a regular 20th century guy is far more relatable and entertaining.
I'm left handed, and it totally is a genetic defect. Actually I think it's related to my vision. Last time I got a new eyeglass prescription it made my right eye the stronger one, and it was so disorienting that I went back and had them increase the left eye just a little so that it'd be stronger and I could function like a normal (albeit left handed) person again.
But no, I think queerness of any variety will be treated like Picard's baldness: by the time technology advances that far, no one will care to even bother with it.
