Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Jason X-Mas]

to be or not to be

One my favorite Klingon quotes from General Chang.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

I mean that have these different family houses which I think have lots of money and power over all Klingons. Their is always political fighting among the houses. Leaders being secretly poisoned and hidden deals with Romulans. Worf discovers he has a brother he didn't know about. The Duras family vs Worf's family. Gowron scheming.

So human.

The Prince.

 

[Fateor]

I'll make a note here that it seems like Trek is moving away from queer characters. Look at SNW. There was a tiny bit of queer-ish content in the first season (Chapel mentioning she dated a woman in the past, casting a trans character in a guest role, arguably whatever happened between Una and Ortegas in The Elysian Kingdom) but since the show has been obsessed with pairing off pretty much everyone in straight relationships.

I dunno about SFA, but I wouldn't be surprised if all the characters are canonically straight (or at least, non-queer - maybe SAM is ace, because she's a holo).

You forgot Mariner dating Jenn in Lower Decks.

ironically media STILL likes to portray many gay characters are caricatures, especially in comedy..I know a few male gay couples, and they don't prance around singing musicals, and talking about fashion and dropping sexual innuendo, no, they drink beer and watch football on Sundays like any other couple..they are more like Keith and David from Six Feet Under. If you want to change peoples' mind, don't reinforce stereotypes, show them that despite who they love, they are no different than anyone else.

Because in a lot of cases that sort of "coding" is their only way to get across that the character is "gay".

 

[Tuskin38]

Stamets and Culber's relationship in S1 was written like any other couple, which was great.

 

[Frostscape One]

There was very little that DISCO was good at, but they did write Stamets and Culber well. (At the start, anyway. As the seasons went on, they sort of ignored their relationship more and more.)