“solely”, not even “primarily “.

I mean I’m from the 70s, straight, male, cis and white Irish (more or less) and I enjoyed them but it’s an outrage they weren’t designed just for me. 🙄

Yup. Lots of men need to learn that, “Not everything is for you.”

Fortunately Discovery and Academy have plenty for straight white millennial cis men to enjoy, too.

The weird thing is…I don’t think those older guys were bothered about relating to characters. The major difference between old trek and new as I see it is the focus of the shows. Old trek was about story with characters being pretty thin props for whatever story there was that week. New trek is the other way around - very shakey thin story as props for character focus.

I hope they do a show that’s both again, like DS9 became.

As a straight, cis, white millennial male my only gripe with Discovery is that it wasn’t set int the 32nd century from the beginning. These shows live up to Star Trek’s core ideals and are products of their time tackling issues of their time, just as the Treks that came before them did.

People who bemoan “woke” Star Trek never truly understood it to begin with.

Discovery is the only one I've watched a full series of and I take a sick pleasure in letting certain people know this.

I'm not the target audience for these "legacy franchise" things anyway. I'll watch utter muck if it's at least new. But if you are going to do something in a really well-established setting it only makes sense to try something new.

(Andor did this but in a "stories for boys" way so that's allowed, or something)

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One thing that really struck me when watching Discovery is how much the franchise focuses on war now. I don't know why that show. It's not the first by far. It just hit me though and I wonder how Roddenberry would have liked that. Every Star Trek, even one called "Discovery", is primarily full of war.

Exciting. It's a good, fun show. I like it. But it hit me.

Cis, Het, Older White Guy here. I LOVE DISCOVERY! I LOVE STARDATE:90210! I AM AMBIVALENT ABOUT PICARD! I LOVE STRANGE NEW WORLDS!

IOW, until now, I've loved every series even if it took a while to warm to DS9. I love all three animated series.

Except for a couple, I do draw the line at the movies. All of them are… watchable but only a couple are good (ST2:TWOK, ST4:TOWTW, IMHO).

If any new Trek dross ever leaks from Paramaga, it's likely to be garbage.

#FuckParamount

TOS has a main character whose parents are different species and no one is surprised that they are married. The idea that the gender of people in a relationship would bother people in such a society seems weird.

It’s probably necessary for audience comprehension, but the idea that we’d still be using gendered pronouns in the 23rd century grated on me quite a bit as a teenager watching TNG for the first time (especially since they did try to make the titles and forms of address in Starfleet gender-neutral). At least Iain M Banks put in translator note explaining that this was an artefact of your reading the book in a stupid language and not the original Marain.

I guess we were supposed to be happy with the quiet subplots and innuendo that TNG was so fond of? Sigh. Though I think Academy veered toward the juvenile at times, I applaud it for being genuine and inclusive.

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #woke #LGBTQ #neurodivergent