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Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance
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No, it's the modern, basic portrayal of those characters and their issues that's the problem.
Star Trek is supposed to reflect on human problems and foibles with allegory. Not just slap you across the face with, "see, gays are normal, too!" Yes, we watch Star Trek. We know. Make it more interesting with an allegory tied to a other characters that aren't supposed to be professional officers from a species that's prescribed as already past these issues.
By putting so much basic and direct human drama in STD, they bastardized the entire bluepeint of the show.
im not sure how one is slapped across the face with normalcy but if you're saying discovery didnt go far enough with the barely-disguised left wing messaging we usually see in star trek i agree wholeheartedly
Ah yes, modern basic issues like being kidnapped into a multiversal network of spores and finding your murdered partner creeping in the wings destroying everything he touches.
Mondays, amirite?
Any "mundane" problems they faced were faced by most of the crew at some point, yet you're only complaining about non-cishets being "normal." You're not very good at masking your bigotry.
Those are specific details, not general nature of writing. I'm talking about analysis of the writing style, not how scifi it is.