• zaphod@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it’s JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen

    Yeah. That’s my point.

    Maybe there is no allegory.

    Maybe it’s just a gay couple on screen.

    Like Nichelle as Uhura was just a black woman in an elevated position on screen.

    No message. Just simple representation.

    Why is that such a problem?

    Because if you ask people in the community, many will tell you they’re kinda sick of the gay experience only be represented in a negative light, always a struggle, always a message, as opposed to just them simply and comfortably existing.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yea, I see what you mean. Actual representation and not tokenization. I wouldn’t accuse even STD or Picard of at least purposefully tokenizing. Although with the contemporary representation with a drama focus in the writing, it almost jumps the shark enough on the ST premise that the contemporary drama representation almost just feels tokenized, if that makes sense. I don’t think it’d be obvious with better writing, and I hear they get better later, so I could see people disagreeing out of pure entertainment value in the least.