Tag: star trek discovery

lorcas-tribble:

michaelburnhamfanclub:

first s2 trailer!!

A couple of first impressions:

-That glowing thing Michael was looking at reminded me of the inside of a Bajoran Orb though that might just be a coincidence.

-Why does Pike’s uniform look different from everyone else’s including Number One’s? It also looks a lot like an AOS uniform and makes me curious if they can make the uniforms look more similar now due to the Paramount/CBS merger.

-How long is Pike going to be captain and who will be captain after him?

-Im enjoying Number One’s performance already and can see that becoming a fan favorite.

-I liked the music choice and how Tilly high fived Paul though I think purists would disagree with both those things.

Anyone got anything to add?

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autisticrevolution:

Beware the autistic headcanons

I know Tumblr absolutely loves to claim various characters for certain groups (LGBT, certain disabilities, etc). Even if there’s absolutely nothing in a character’s official canon to support a certain conclusion (i.e: the character never demonstrates any traits that are characteristic of the group claiming that character), it doesn’t stop people from claiming them. Hell, I myself have done this with Ice Bear from We Bare Bears.

But we need to be careful about the potential exploitation of the creators of certain characters.

Take JK Rowling for example: for years, she claimed that Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series was gay. But once gay issues were no longer trendy enough to make her look good for making a gay character, she dropped his homosexuality. She casted Hermione as white in the Harry Potter movies, but suddenly decided to make her black so she could profit from the controversy surrounding the play in which Hermione was played by a black actress.

Long story short: she doesn’t give a fuck about representing any minority groups unless it puts her in the spotlight and gets her even more money.

Be careful about claiming characters who we have no reason to believe are autistic; the creators of these characters will take all the money they can from the popularity and then jump ship when autistic characters are no longer trendy and profitable.

If you need a fictional autistic character to relate to, make your own, or read any of the numerous stories written by autistic authors. Let’s have representation that won’t vanish when our demographic is no longer seen as profitable.

I appreciated that the Star Trek Discovery writers didn’t do that with Sylvia Tilly when they found out that some fans were headcanoning her as autistic. They just said, without judgement toward the fans, that they never intended for her to be that way and left it at that. 

midshipmank:

The entire time Michael was giving her speech about not allowing fear to make them give up their principles, I was thinking about how the Discovery writers, way back before Disco started airing, talked about how they wanted to write a Star Trek show that was about current issues (as all Star Trek, and all scifi, generally is). I was thinking about the significance of them having a Black woman not only as the protagonist, but also as the heart of Federation idealism and compassion. And I was thinking about how they made really excellent use of the Mirrorverse: instead of villainizing an alien species by making them the embodiment of hateful, fearful, reactionary ideology (therefore making such ideology seem inhuman), the enemy came from within. It was us, if things had gone slightly differently in Earth’s history. The tension between how different the Prime universe really is from the Mirrorverse was always at play. It was really well done, especially since they set it up with the false premise of a good/evil dichotomy between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. We’re ready to believe the enemy is out there, nonhuman, with a culture we don’t know much about, etc, etc—a really straight, flat allegory. But then they turned that on its head, and the real enemy was revealed to be someone we thought we trusted, someone we thought we knew, and then it even became ourselves…. It was just really well done. As someone who’s academic focus is literally science fiction and (identity) politics, I am so pleased with how this season of Discovery went. It was excellent.

I have only one complaint: when the fuck is Hugh Culber coming back.