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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

You'd hate everything too if you were forced to stay in the closet by an asshole TV executive from 200 years in your past.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Fuck Rick Berman (if that needs to be said again)

[-] rivr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago
[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Can you expand on this, is the actor gay, or a theory about the character?

I kinda half watched Enterprise and for a lot of it I was horribly sick... So my recollection is bad.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

He was supposed to be queer, but Rick Berman is a massive homophobe, so he didn't allow it.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Like most trek actors, Keating just played him as gay regardless.

Except for mirror!Reed, who was extra gay

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

He played him as gay, but his character wasn't gay in any way it would have really mattered. That's not his fault, and I hope at least a few queer Trekkies realized what he was trying to do and felt like they could identify with him, but Berman had to be kicked to the curb before characters in Star Trek that weren't "mirror" characters or Trill that are definitely still male in terms of their relationship with a woman even if they identify as female or whatever excuse they wanted to make rather than have real queer representation and that was more my point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm overjoyed that characters like Stamets and Culber exist in Star Trek today, but it took way too long.

And, thinking on it, if you do want to argue that Malcolm was gay but closeted, since he claimed he was attracted to women and only discussed and was shown to have had hetero urges and desires, that suggests a less bright future than Star Trek suggests we have, and I don't like that either.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Idk, Reed was messed up in a lot of ways (and it was proto Federation) so even if you play with that angle it's not a reflection on chronologically later trrek series.

I mean half of earth in ENT was xenophobic as hell as well, does that condemn the rest of trek?

We are being terrible though and forgetting Vilix'pran, who not only canonically gave birth several times during DS9's run, but he also got a promotion so six kids ain't messing up his career. Also the crew were very invested in his family.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but - for some reason - loves pineapple

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's a pretty good fruit tbf

[-] finley@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

sure, but after spending the entire episode making a huge production about how he doesn't particularly like anything, it's nonsense for him to love something that everyone likes.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

S-tier fruit.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe he just hates Malaysia.

Maybe he should have joined the Earth Navy instead, you know, seen other places.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Maybe he should have joined the Earth Navy instead,

Did Malcolm's dad post this?

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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