Were Culber and Stamets married?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't recall any line that specifically mentioned that they were married. I guess I just assumed they were, because they got to share quarters (I wouldn't expect Starfleet to allow non-married couples to live together).

Has this been confirmed one way or the other?

 

[XCV330]

I don't think it was ever said.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Everyone except Tilly had to share a room.

She snores.

You would expect that the captain gets his own room?

Was Lorca's roommate waiting out side glaring at the (magnetic) sock on the door while Cornwell was having her overnight visit, or under Lorca's bed with his thumbs in his ears?

The Chief Engineer and the CMO would also be entitled to their own rooms, you would think? Otherwise they might have been roommates first, who decided to frakk and fall in love?

Nightshit/dayshift, the the Chief and their second who is in charge when the other is sleeping should be sharing quarters in such a situation, so that they can keep on top of issues that happened while their counterpart was sleeping?

 

[Kemaiku]

Is it relevant?

Marriage these days is seen as a diminishing institution, 300 years from now it should matter less.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Marriage these days is seen as a diminishing institution, 300 years from now it should matter less.

We see married couples in Trek all the time. Riker and Troi, O'Brien and Keiko, Sisko and Jennifer (and later Kasidy), Picard and Beverly (in the AGT future), etc. So there's no evidence that marriage is diminishing or anything like that.

 

[Kemaiku]

We see married couples in Trek all the time. Riker and Troi, O'Brien and Keiko, Sisko and Jennifer (and later Kasidy), Picard and Beverly (in the AGT future), etc. So there's no evidence that marriage is diminishing or anything like that.

Then I return to the initial 'is it relevant' part.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Of course it's relevant. Why wouldn't it be?

Marriage can and will evolve a number of different forms (polygamy, contract marriage, etc.), but the actual institution itself will always exist. There's no reason why it shouldn't.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Plus, if Mirror Lorca married them... Is it legal?

Although if they were already married, then Culber was dragged to this post, because it was Stamets they really wanted, so he could be overqualified or underqualified for the position that he is holding.

 

[Tuskin38]

Then I return to the initial 'is it relevant' part.

Why wouldn't it be?

 

[Kemaiku]

They were written in a poor attempt (as was much of the rest of the show) to try and prove itself relevant to modern audiences, by being 10 years at least behind the level of most television today.

And walked right into the 'bury your gays' trope without even the excuse of a long running show that decided later, prepared to kill one of them to tug at the heart strings of the audience for a vapid attempt at a ratings boost.

Everything else is secondary to the level of offensive stupidity in that decision. I am perfectly sure marriage is extended to everyone in the future, my own country doesn't right now and it would be nice to know Starfleet at least does, but that would be giving the writers far too much credit to think they cared or bothered to have that detail pinned down.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I didn't think they were married, just living together.

 

[Tuskin38]

They were written in a poor attempt (as was much of the rest of the show) to try and prove itself relevant to modern audiences, by being 10 years at least behind the level of most television today.

Oh you meant why would they being married be relevant to their characters, not marriage itself.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Plus, if Mirror Lorca married them... Is it legal?

They might have been married somewhere else. Picard didn't perform the ceremony for Riker and Troi, did he?

As for whether or not Stamets and Culber were married: I still think that the fact that they shared quarters would be a good reason to believe that they were. Why should Starfleet allow non-married couples to share a room?

 

[Guy Gardener]

To frakk.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Why should Starfleet allow non-married couples to share a room?

Why would they have to be married for Starfleet to recognise their right to... do couple things?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They'd just do the whole "your place or mine?" thing.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They'd just do the whole "your place or mine?" thing.

But what if they're in an exclusive, long-term relationship? They shouldn't have to get married to share a room.

 

[Tenacity]

Why should Starfleet allow non-married couples to share a room?

If they met aboard Discovery and each had their own private quarters, then they could have moved into one, and abandoned the other.

If the each had a prior room-mate a simple and polite request could have had those room-mates share quarters.

Why wouldn't Starfleet "let" people who weren't married share quarters? It wouldn't be any different tham if two plutonic friends wanted to share quarters. The ships are on very long voyages sometimes, room-mate would likely shift from time to time. I'd imagine that people would get sick of each other and even grow to hate their room-mate and request a switch.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If they met aboard Discovery and each had their own private quarters, then they could have moved into one, and abandoned the other.

If the each had a prior room-mate a simple and polite request could have had those room-mates share quarters.

Why wouldn't Starfleet "let" people who weren't married share quarters? It wouldn't be any different tham if two plutonic friends wanted to share quarters. The ships are on very long voyages sometimes, room-mate would likely shift from time to time. I'd imagine that people would get sick of each other and even grow to hate their room-mate and request a switch.

Sharing a single room: No problemo.

Sharing a stateroom intended for a visiting admiral or ambassador: They gotta relinquish their room to that VIP, and camp in a hallway for 6 weeks till that important dildo f##ks off.

Is space at a premium? There's only 130 people on board, so that has to be a skeleton crew, so there should be room to spare, if everyone except Tilly and the unmarried command staff is doubling up.

I imagine that Starships are prefabricated kit-sets.

Taking a wall, out should be very easy... Although that time crazy Kevin held engineering while the ship was plummeting into PSI 2000? Engineering has more pipes in the walls. and 'radiation" shielding, than the walls between barracks.

 

[BillJ]

Not sure it really matters...