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That also could potentially be justified by the fact that the US still has places named after Confederate generals though it's harder to lock down as any sort of positive thing.

It's really a pile of garbage. And I'm angry at myself for watching so much of it. It's clearly not written by anybody interested in the star trek universe.

My go-to example is also this one episode where one young character decides to from now on go by the pronouns "they/them". I'm all for the inclusion of nonbinary characters - that's what star trek always stood for - inclusion and the shared humanity that we all have. But that episode had basically nothing else going for it and the pronouns were the plot.

The new, great series "strange new worlds" on the other hand had a great episode with a very interesting non binary character (that BTW never was explicitly pointed out as one) who helped spock deal with his own problems of navigating his own two identities (human/vulcan). It was so clever and the nonbinaryness was integral, to the plot, but it wasn't the plot. The actual plot was that the non binary character basically fooled everyone and turned out the villain. It's such a great comparison between those two series. One makes a compelling show and the other one has nothing to say other than ticking a list of "woke" virtue signalling points.

well discovery criticism is well trodden by now and I didn't want to trigger a dive into it (which I say as a Disco critic). This part though, however minor it might seem, I think goes beyond being a critique of the show and more of a strong lesson that writers should know and shouldn't fuck around with, especially in sci-fi.

It may also highlight how Disco writers are maybe just not good trek writers and maybe didn't get the show ... where it's not so much about the "right now" like social media but about the bigger questions of the present.