• Kyle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Expanse did it well too. There is a character that uses different pronouns, and people just used the right pronouns for them. Thats it. Boom representation achieved.

    Now I get that trills were used to stealthily start trying to get trans and gender queer screentime in a very hostile 90s era.

    In discovery, Adiras coming out had to once again be aided with the framing of the trill.

    Adira had to loudly declare their preferred pronouns in the deep future when all of this was supposed to be no big deal.

    It would have been so intelligent if they were just called by their pronouns and were just treated like any other character.

    I understood the writers managed to get a coming out story that a lot of people can relate to. But in the future people should just be, and not need to come out.

    • Guy Fleegman@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      “”““loudly declare””“”

      Adira tells Stamets their pronouns, and Stamets says “okay” approvingly. That’s it. That’s the full extent of what you are calling a “big deal.”

      You understand that even in a society where everyone is allowed to “just be,” accidental misgendering is still going to happen and corrections will still need to be communicated, right? Marco misgendered Nico on their first appearance, so Nico must have corrected him. You are effectively arguing that enby representation is only acceptable if actual conversations about gender occur off-screen.