I do remember people making jokes about Scotty and Kirk gaining weight, yes. But personally I don’t recall anyone ever saying they were “body positive” characters, as in characters that are meant to fulfill some agenda for more representation of people with non-slim bodies. Same for all other male
Trek characters that weren’t played by traditionally slim or buff actors, like for example John Billingsley, Colm Meaney or Ethan Phillips. For some reason this angle only started to appear when it was female characters that weren’t as skinny in their tight catsuits as came to be expected from
Trek. Which leads me to believe it’s just the same old story, where women are held to a different standard than men.
To me arguments like “there wouldn’t be obesity in the future” or “Starfleet wouldn’t accept overweight people” most of the time read like flimsy excuses for just wanting skinny and conventionally attractive women on television. Everything outside of this norm must be misrepresented as a “woke agenda”.
Do we definitely know Athena left Bajor for Earth? Or did Ake travel from Bajor to pick up Caleb and then travel to the Athena, after all Ake's belongings are brought from Bajor to the Athena, not "the surface".
Ake travels from Bajor to the Torothan prison, and then to the Athena, but i didnt catch any reference to them departing from Bajor?
Yeah, there’s actually nothing in the episode that would imply they are traveling from Bajor to Earth. Vance is just visiting Ake on Bajor, who then goes to the Torothan prison to pick up Caleb. They then journey via shuttle to where the
Athena is, which they don’t say is Bajor and which doesn’t look like the establishing shot of Bajor we saw earlier. IIRC, there’s also nothing to indicate how long their journey to Earth takes and at which point during their journey they are traveling past the Badlands.
