Never Give up, Never Surrender

Lin. 34. I guess I'm back using this blog or something idk.

[t-rina]

space aunt and space dad

5x4 Face the Strange

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - S2E10 The Red Angel

[teratomat]

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - S2E2 New Eden

[startrekuniverse]

Star Trek Discovery

So many memories.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - S1E5 Choose Your Pain

[stra-tek]

Mad stuff that's 100% canon in the Star Trek universe:

Going past warp 10 turns you into a hyper-evolved Salamander

Special cheese can bring down the highly advanced bio-neural circuitry of an Intrepid-class ship

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across many light years

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across universes

The addition of old DNA in a transporter can reset you physically to whatever age the DNA is from, but with all your memories and experiences intact therefore curing all ills

There's a forcefield surrounding the galaxy and nobody really asks why it's there

Touching it sometimes gives people Q-like powers

There's a Prime Directive not to interfere with pre-warp cultures but everybody does

There's a Temporal Prime Directive not to interfere with the timeline but everybody does

Captain Picard was turned into a Borg for a few days and was never the same again

Captain Janeway, B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok were turned into Borg for a couple of days and where just fine after

Discovery's new captain is probably still waiting on Vulcan

There's a planet in the centre of the galaxy surrounded by a forcefield with a big floating head on it that pretends to be God

The Borg, most deadly dangerous things in the galaxy responsible for enslavement of trillions, could possibly be forever defeated by a single jpeg of a weird shape but they don't do it because sympathy

There's a secret cabal of Starfleet officers that attempted genocide once and it's the only thing that saved the Federation

There's a universe which, when it bleeds into ours, makes everyone uncontrollably sing and dance

[zygon-commander]

I think Discovery does a good job with having queer characters in a futuristic sci-fi setting where they feel queer by the viewer’s standards AND queer within the setting of the story, but without it seeming like cultural standards have just been frozen for a few hundred years.

No one conceals their queerness or seems at all anxious or self-conscious about it, but Adira’s coming out is still treated like a significant moment and something that brings them closer to Stamets, and Gray mentions transitioning by name as something that took up his time and attention. The queer members of the Discovery behave like a family, like a unit within the crew.

From this, you can vaguely take away that the concept of queerness and queer community exists within the Federation, but not homophobia (at least as far as we see).

This is what I’ve always wanted from Star Trek and it’s so simple, but I think a lot of people fail at this when it comes to writing real oppressed groups into fantastical settings. “This character is different, but we can’t persecute them, how will we characterize them?? That’s scary… I’ll just ignore it.”

I remember watching a redlettermedia review of some nutrek (a bad idea) where they were complaining about forced wokeness and citing an episode of TOS where Abraham Lincoln calls Uhura a racial slur (just realized how stupid that sentence is) and she’s unfazed because she’s never experienced racism so it has no weight to her. The boys concluded that since racism, countries, war, etc. no longer exist on Earth, then human characters shouldn’t be so aware of what cultural categories they are. As if blackness would disappear without racism 🤨 and ethnicities would disappear without countries 🤨 and pride in one’s culture and heritage would disappear without wars 🤨. I think this is a common point of view that doesn’t really make sense, and I’m glad TV writers seem to be changing their minds (or just hiring minorities as writers lol).

Picard is still French without the country of France, and Sisko is Creole, and Dr. Culber is capital-g Gay, and Riker is a proud trombonist (a distinct social category of the twenty-first century). Good for them.

[evviejo]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[superheroes]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY S04E01 — "Kobayashi Maru"

[evviejo]

SYLVIA TILLY (& GRUDGE) - STAR TREK: DISCOVERY S3E6 Scavengers

[eruptedinlight]

Saru: A Flat Ass Icon

[nora-barnacle]

[dawdreygore]

[starwarmth]

[batboyblog]

So in the latest "ban books!" controversy there's a picture book for pre-schoolers called "Grandad's Pride" the objection is that some of the illustrations of Pride involve men in leather

and I could go on and on about how yes that is in fact something you might see at Pride out in public so why would you not include it but.....

here's an unrelated image of popular children's cartoon character He-Man in a Harness (and fury underpants) if its only a problem when gay men do it, thats homophobia...

[2spirit-1spoon]

Also, that's what PRIDE looked like.

We gain nothing by trying to sanitize our own history for our oppressors comfort, especially when their comfort does includes our suicide rate.

[bonyassfish]

if you're with a kid and they seen someone with a leather harness, or a puppy mask, or whatever, you don't have to explain all the sexual details to them. you can just say "they like to dress up in fun costumes sometimes", which is true, and that's that

[med-ex]

Fallout in ✨Colour✨

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