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Same in Oregon.

I imagine Alaska being red is more about dying from the cold than the law.

Yes. The pupils were generally only visible in the pre-rendered videos.

Adira was being called she/her for the first few episodes they were there because of that reason. No one is ever going to know that they’re non-binary unless they say it. They then had a singular fucking line where they said I prefer they/them. Like… this is why I got frustrated before because that is going out of its way to not make a point of it. There was a singular scene with a singular line. It’s maddening to hear people say that they drew any attention at all when they went out of their way to give it as little attention as possible.

Ah, I actually thought it was a longer, more emotional scene from the way I’ve seen it talked about, or even the focus of an episode. A quick comment is basically exactly how I would have expected Trek to handle that. I mean, yeah, gender isn’t always visible, especially for non-binary folks, so it needs to be mentioned.

So, fun fact. Culber was always intended to die in Season 1 and be resurrected in Season 2. Not something I personally like or agree with but I do find it interesting.

I really didn’t like Berg and Harberts as showrunners. They had a serious penchant for melodrama and I found it suspicious that they claimed everything viewers didn’t like was Fuller’s fault, even in episodes produced long past when Fuller left. And that was before we found out how they were treating the staff. Killing a character for shock value while intending to revive them later very much sounds like them.

I don’t really care though. Trek is not forced into the mould of the past and TV has changed. Moreover, allegory only was able to work because the discussion wasn’t a constant lingering conversation. With the world hating trans folks, being more obvious with that acceptance will never be a bad thing. Making people feel accepted will never be a bad thing.

Which is why I was surprised when I learned Discovery made a point of it. TOS never made a point about there being a Russian on the bridge or a black woman being the third officer. TNG… honestly wasn’t all that progressive for the '80s and '90s. Probably Berman’s fault. DS9 never only brought up Jadzia’s pansexuality in regards to Kira being comparatively close-minded, and even then regarding specific species rather than gender or sex; nobody gave a flying fuck that Dax was into someone who was currently a woman that one time, just that they had previously been married. Sisko being black similarly wasn’t worthy of comment until he personally experienced the 1950s. VOY had half the command staff, including the captain, as women without a single comment. And DIS has previously shown Stamet’s and Culber’s relationship as completely ordinary. Part of Trek is showing us at our best, so why the change?

If Stamets was able to just be gay without it being a big deal (the representation were dying for instead of being a clown for entertainment) then why can’t Adira?

The relationship between Stamets and Culber was one of my favorite parts of Disco’s first season until they fridged Culber. It was cute watching Stamets go from his usual prickly self to just melting whenever he talked about Culber. Culber was woefully underdeveloped until the second season, though.

I want to preface this by saying that I’m a hetero cis dude, I bruise easily, and I didn’t watch DIS that far, but Trek has historically worked best with allegory rather than just transplanting today’s issues into the future. Having Adira openly be non-binary with nobody caring and come out as a joined human feels like it would work as the traditional allegorical approach. That’s essentially what they did in Rejoined, after all.

That said, subtlety wasn’t exactly DISCO’s strength and I am, again, a hetero cis dude. And times change so maybe that approach just doesn’t work well anymore.

The E-D should definitely have random crayon scribbles on the walls at a minimum.

The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.

Don’t forget the Tholians.

Lightfall sunsetted everything I was using that wasn’t an exotic. Completely destroyed my build.

Yeah, the Culling of Stratholme broke him, but it wasn’t the wrong decision. And Uther and Jaina turning on him is part of why it broke him.

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To be fair, I don’t think the penguins recognize anyone’s sovereignty.

Picard and Troi only had cosmetic surgery to look Romulan. One papercut would have outed them. The SNW crew were made fully Vulcan.

The transformation was also basically space magic since it was based on whatever the Kerkohvians did to turn Spock fully human. And it’s mentioned that it’s influenced by his experiences rather than just straight biology. They took on the aspects that Spock associates with Vulcans, which includes racism, hubris, and flawed logic.

It’s not the greatest, but it is internally consistent.

I think people just don’t know much about the PNW. Seattle produced some rock bands and companies in the '90s and Portland got a TV show that ended years ago, but that’s about it. We just don’t make much noise right now.

I hope that network drivers are the next thing to get overhauled now that there’s finally a stable audio system.

Looks like the one A uses in Future Redeemed.

During Trump’s first term, Fox pushed back just slightly on some of the shit he was trying to pull. Turned out even Fox wasn’t entirely comfortable with Trump being president. However, this backfired and pushed some viewers to OAN because Fox had spent the last couple decades training their viewers to hate anyone who even slightly opposes a Republican president. Of course, that increased OAN’s profile, which got them on Trump’s radar. Trump loves them because they won’t stop sucking his dick, so he promotes them to his followers, so now a bunch of people that used to religiously watch Fox now religiously watch OAN and think that Fox isn’t conservative enough.

They made a monster and it slipped its leash.

Conquering it in Crusader Kings is always a pain in the ass due to the Pope’s insane income.

Morrowind also had a lot of static loot, though, and humanoid enemies had static levels. Some items, most notably Daedric armor, also never appeared in Morrowind’s levelled lists, so they could only be found at predetermined points. Exploring in Morrowind could get you some really neat stuff even at low levels.