Star Trek: Discovery S3E12 “There Is A Tide…”

I haven’t actually watched the new show or anything (no untagged spoilers in this thread, please), but this is the general vibe that I get from reading comments from people who have.

  • usernamefactory
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    4 hours ago

    They aren’t over-represented, you’re gerrymandering - purposefully drawing lines so that women fall inside your tally, and men don’t. If we simply do an objective headcount of the recurring Starfleet officers in the show so far, I get 4 women and 3 men. As even a count as you can get without cutting someone in two, or adding a redundant character.

    And The Doctor is a goddamn treasure.

    • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      In leadership positions, the large majority are women, in a naval academy. That stretches the bounds of plausibility relative to reality, making the choice to do so suspect. Maybe I simply need a different grounding in reality in my scifi than you do.

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        2 hours ago

        OK, like I said, you don’t believe in Star Trek’s egalitarian future. You could have just agreed up front that you don’t like girls in Star Trek, then.