Tracking the status of AO3 on tumblr over the last 48 hours has felt like I'm standing next to the hospital bed of my ailing wife and receiving updates from the doctors
I don't know. This is far too reductive, of course, but I kind of think that there is a very real and notable difference between the way that violence was treated in the 1960s Star Trek, which was written in the shadow of nuclear armageddon twenty years after the bloodiest war in human history (and largely by people who had fought in that war), and in the newer series, where the writers' experience of violence comes primarily from action movies and video games.
Like, I think that there's a tendency of people in the present to imagine that people in the past were naive and...I really don't think that history bears this out. I don't think that subversion is always clever just because a trope can be subverted. I think that imagining that your enemy might be an actual moral actor with whom it's possible to reason is actually a great deal more mature than imagining your enemy as a bloodthirsty monster who will kill by nature.
I'm not just talking about the Gorn, by the way; I actually suspect that SNW will probably add some nuance to them in the Season 3 premiere. It's about just the whole attitude to killing. Worf and Beverly coldly executing fallen Changelings in Picard s3 without anyone pointing out that this is a war crime; M'Benga beating information out of a Klingon in "The Broken Circle"; the increasing normalization of Section 31 across all series (and in fact I would say that even the existence of Section 31 in canon is fatal to the vision of Star Trek as being about humanity being better); that scene showing Emperor Georgiou ripping through the skulls of a half dozen of her own aristocrats in loving detail, never to be mentioned again. All of them just seem morally weightless, there because they look cool. It's the logic of an FPS, not something that's supposed to be grounded in reality, let alone trying to depict a better future.
Alas, the SNW Season 3 premiere gave no nuance whatsoever to the Gorn, and may in fact have sanded out what little nuance they had in Season 2.
SNW is lining up to be my least favorite Trek, neck and neck with Picard Season 3 -- and for some reason, those seem to be the popular shows.
The Abrams Treks are absolutely video game-inspired action flicks, but for all of its sins, Into Darkness won a place in my heart for so vehemently repudiating the very concept that the Federation "needs" Section 31.
Thinking about that Eddie and Chim hug because like!! They thought that Maddie had left. They thought Maddie had taken off her wedding ring and left Jee asleep in her bed. Eddie Diaz got the call that his friend had been left with a 3-4 year old and no wife and he must’ve felt like he did over a decade ago when it happened to him.
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
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