kasdeya
kasdeya
after finishing Star Trek: Resurgence I have extremely mixed feelings but I will say that it was my first experience with accidentally shipping characters and now I kinda understand shipping culture a little bit?
I thought shippers were knowingly headcanon-ing the romantic tension as they watch shows but like, for most of Resurgence I was watching the most queer-coded obviously lesbian romance start to blossom and then never go beyond a suspiciously intimate friendship?
how dare they. this is Star Trek. letting a transfemme-coded alien kiss the female first officer character would actually be less queer than that one gender episode of TNG from the 90’s (The Outcast btw)
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Star Trek should be sliding left along with the Overton window so that it becomes just as transgressive and politically-charged in 2026 as it was in the 20th century
in fact throw away the whole worldbuilding of the Federation and reimagine it as a leftist utopia instead of {a liberal hierarchical utopia that has a military-coded organization like Starfleet}
The Orville actually seem(ed/s) to be doing a great job of being politically transgressive with episodes like About A Girl. and I can’t believe Seth MacFarlane created a more faithful Star Trek show than any Star Trek show in the past 15 years
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Deep Space Nine had a two-parter where they travel to the year 2024 where the US is putting homeless people in camps and the good guys are the homeless people who riot and hold the cops at gunpoint, and this was released in 1995 (Past Tense). I need more of this energy in my Star Trek not this milquetoast Discovery shit or whatever scifi slop they’re trying to pass off as Star Trek these days
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on one hand I really want a hypothetical 2026 Star Trek to be radically transhumanist and show shocking levels of bodily autonomy - I’m talking about humans turning their bodies into living sculptures that completely transcend any possible concept of gender while deliberately fucking with the idea at the same time
on the other hand, the lack of transhumanism in Star Trek (other than assistive technologies) is very important because it shows that humans, as we are right now in 2026, are capable of building a utopia. all we have to do is progress culturally just a little bit more - overcoming generational trauma in the process
if everyone in Star Trek was shockingly transhuman, it would obscure or even undermine that message, because it would no longer be about the cultural and psychological potential of the human race - it would be about the cultural and psychological potential of a fractally diverging set of posthuman races
but maybe this idealized Star Trek show could have a few shockingly transhuman characters… as a treat. throw a Seven of Nine in there, maybe, except they did that to themselves on purpose and they’re proud of it. or - better yet - a Motoko Kusanagi: gimme a hot doll-like android with an organic brain as a Starfleet officer. except give her the ability to morph her doll body into a six-legged science platform to really drive home just how inhuman she is
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