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[–] Lwaxana@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I mean it’s Star Trek, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, nobody cares about that.

You're implying that Discovery showed characters giving a shit about someone's skin color, gender or sexual orientation?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The show wrIters OBVIOUSLY cared. So much so it shined right through the writing.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes absolutely! Well said. Progressive themes shined through in the writing, but on-screen the characters never made a big deal out of it. That's been very Star Trek since the days of TOS. An episode like "Let that be your Last Battlefield" would have a shoved-down-your-throat antiracist message, but it was a metaphor and not directly about Uhura, who's race was never discussed.

Well, except that one time by space Abraham Lincoln.

[–] Tin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Everything Lincoln says to Uhura is the epitome of cringe. It was certainly a different time, but oh my gosh...

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