Happy First Contact Day to all who celebrate πππ»
I'd love to hear what people love about Star Trek!
30 | Arts&Crafts | Queer&Disabled | Storytelling
Happy First Contact Day to all who celebrate πππ»
I'd love to hear what people love about Star Trek!
They haven't always been great at it (product of each series' respective time) but I love the desire to normalize difference as a core tenant of production. The main example I can think of is including skants as an all-gender uniform choice in TNG that a lot of masc background characters just kinda. Wore. Bc they liked it. No narrative need to comment on it bc it's just A Normal Thing. Sad that it stopped being utilized, but I think of all the new ST I've been able to see, Lower Decks is taking this spirit and running with it in a way the live action Treks can't
Yes yes yes! I love when they manage to show how difference makes them stronger. They definitely fall short a lot but I do remember how impactful it was for me as a kid who wore hearing aids to see disabled characters with assistive technologies working alongside the abled characters. I'd love to see more accomodations and stuff in Trek but I have to agree Lower Decks is the series knocking it out of the park in the IDIC department.