Oh come on, the last episode of Discovery had nearly a full minute discussing Dead Imaginary Troony Trills new body. Before everything started exploding again.
Don't forget that it seemed to suggest Tilly will be trooning out this season.
It is interesting how they mishandle the optimistic future aspect of Trek. If they really were wanting to project a better future with this stuff, they'd just have trans, non-binary and whatever else without bringing notice to it. Instead of projecting it all still has a personal struggle to deal with 1000 years in the future.
Where Tilly will have to seek the wisdom of a wise gay man to get the courage to become non-binary. To which no character will give a shit about. So why the personal struggle? Is that implying issues with trans / non-binary peoples mental states? That it isn't just how society treats them? Doesn't that go against the current day woke narrative on this stuff?
To me, it suggests that part of the identity is the actual struggle.
It's all kind of odd. Having a non-binary character literally be a "they" as they're two people. Where there's now awkwardness when they are referred as "they." Is it both characters or the singular?
Then of course one of those is a trans man. So it's the non-binary and the trans dating. Yet it's all in the non-binaries head.
A trans man who isn't masculine at all. Perfecting their new male body by getting rid of a mole. When we're watching it in 4k seeing how bad their lumpy facial skin is under the make-up. Also juxtaposed with a masculine real man in the scene which highlights just how non-masculine the trans person is. Why not get a proper male body?
The way the scene is set up, literally everyone watching would be noticing and thinking this stuff.
It's actually a complete shit show how they're handling this stuff they seem intent on including in the show.
