#nutrek — Public Fediverse posts

Ahhhh #NuTrek you were terrible and I will not miss you.

Against my better judgment, I shall wade into the discourse on a topic I love.

I've seen enough people claim that modern Star Trek would be doing better if they didn't make gay characters the focus. And I think that argument is a big head-fake. Rather, I think the people making it have cottoned to what is happening in those shows, and it's much, much scarier for them than what they're describing.

I can name two gay couples, one bisexual character, and one almost-certainly-omnisexual (or maybe just, like, really hot, like, is it hot in here? Can I sit down? I should sit down) character in Starfleet Academy. I can also name one gay couple, two(?) nonbinary characters, and one gay character in Star Trek: Discovery.

I cannot name a single plot that was about any of that.

To be honest, I think that's what offended the offendable the most: it's not a focus. This era of Star Trek embraces and extends the Roddenberry-era notion that in the future, love would be more free, growing an assumption Roddenberry's era didn't necessarily embrace that love need not constrain across gender. If people of the same gender found mutual attraction, they just chased it. If opposing gender, they just chased it. What probably rankles the most for those opposed to that kind of world is that in this Trek, it's background. Boyfriends share quarters and bathroom sinks and nobody says anything about it. A character asks for their pronouns clarified and everyone just updates their mental rolodex. Jay-den has some feelings he hasn't quite placed yet for a War College cadet and he is willing to explore those feelings with the guy and nobody stops him.

And that's what's scary to those opposed to love being that free: this is not a Star Trek centering that conflict. This is a Star Trek depicting a future where their attitude on gender and sexual expression already lost. It's on the ash-can alongside capitalism, race, and in-species tribalism as "things humanity grew out of fighting about."

And, yeah, I can see how that kind of future would be terrifying for a certain kind of person.

And I'm sorry for them.

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #Discovery #NuTrek

„You know what has been really cool back then? The saucer separation scenes from TNG!

Hear me out: What if, *takes a big puff*, we separate ALL THE THINGS on a starship?!“

I’m no a hater of #NuTrek, but that design decision makes no sense to me at all.

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I just shed a little tear because I am going to miss #STProdigy. There were some truly great bits of Trek in there and I like that it kept the original utopian Roddenberrian vision going.

I'd rate it below #StrangeNewWorlds but slightly above #Discovery and way, way, waaaaay above #Picard in terms of #NuTrek

#StarTrek #FullyAutomatedLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism

Today I learned: Not all #nuTrek is bad, I'm actually quite enjoying Star Trek Prodigy, I don't want any #spoilers but did they figure out the mystery behind the #ProtoStar #StarTrek #Prodigy

Am having a day off and catching up on #nutrek #picard3 Am laughing my head off, its such utter #FanFic balderdash! ​:thanksihateit:​

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@iteration523 I've never enjoyed the mystery box reveal of any of these #nutrek shows. The moment they dangle a mystery in front of me, it just turns me off now. I know it's gonna be some bad bullshit like "a psychic kid got sad once" or "android body that works like normal body".

Congrats! You wake up and are now canon in star trek. Which ship are you on and what are you doing?

I’d be so confused if that happened, realistically, I feel like I’d be on the Cerritos or discovery. Honestly idk much about ships/ship class. 😅

#startrek #trektok #trektokcrew #startrekthenextgeneration #startrekvoyager #startreklowerdecks #nutrek

Say what you want, the first two eps of Star Trek Discovery are very good. They hold up 5 years later; it’s well crafted and tells a fantastic story.

#startrek  #disco #stdsc #discovery #avulcanhello #nutrek #battleofthebinarystars

Say what you want, the first two eps of Star Trek Discovery are very good. They hold up 5 years later; it’s well crafted and tells a fantastic story.

#startrek  #disco #stdsc #discovery #avulcanhello #nutrek #battleofthebinarystars

Say what you want, the first two eps of Star Trek Discovery are very good. They hold up 5 years later; it’s well crafted and tells a fantastic story.

#startrek  #disco #stdsc #discovery #avulcanhello #nutrek #battleofthebinarystars

The more I watch #TOS, the more I’m convinced that all the #NuTrek haters are just bigoted clowns. (Not that I’ve felt particularly iffy about it before.)

“Discovery is full of plot holes!” – I agree, but have you seen basically any TOS episode?

“Gene wouldn’t have agreed to conflict between crewmates!” – I’ve just watched The Galileo Seven, say that again please? I’ve yet to see a single modern Trek episode in which they treat each other like they treat Spock in this one.

#StarTrek

@joannalaine #LowerDecks it is by far the best #NuTrek, with #StrangeNewWorlds a close second.