It’s to a website known as “Bounding Into Comics”, which I’ve by no means learn earlier than, and it’s to an article titled “New Star Trek Comedian Disgusts Readers With A Vulcan Lecturing The Crew On Gender Pronouns”. I’m not linking to it, should you actually should see it I’ve given sufficient data to seek out it, however actually, it’s not well worth the effort. Right here’s the “lecture” from the comedian.
It’s not a lot. I may see how a literal-minded Vulcan would possibly suppose calling a ship a “she” is illogical (it’s!) and would favor a gender-neutral pronoun, but it surely’s one sentence. It’s inoffensive, as is the naive Andoran saying “ships are ladies”…that’s simply foolish. But right here the creator of the article is claiming, with out proof, that it disgusts
Star Trek followers.
I used to be by no means that large a fan of Star Trek. I positively loved it and begged my dad and mom to let me keep up late to observe it, however that was as a result of it was one of many few SF exhibits on tv. I’ve watched the flicks for the nostalgia, not as a result of I’m a devoted fan, and whereas I can perceive all of the people who find themselves actually into it, I’m not one in all them.
However right here’s the factor: whilst somebody on the outer fringes of fandom, I do know that almost all of hardcore followers of the franchise wouldn’t be disgusted in any respect with that little change. They’d approve of it. The creator of the article (oh, it’s Jon Del Arroz — I do know of him, he’s an asshole) may be disgusted by it, however he’s a weirdo who doesn’t communicate for comedian readers. He simply will get more and more strident about it.
The Star Trek franchise has turn out to be one of the mocked properties on the web in recent times, mired with controversies due to the identification politics continually pushed by the present, books, and comics.
In a latest IDW comedian, the writers perpetuated the franchise’s woke content material by lecturing its readers on gender identification through the use of Vulcan characters as a automobile to gaslight readers who aren’t obsessing over pronouns.
Once more, that’s what nearly all of the followers of the present need. I’ve attended Star Trek panels at giant SF conventions, and each time the viewers is a swarm of essentially the most “woke”, liberal followers you may think. The place does this delusion that Star Trek followers are repelled by tolerance and gender fluidity come from? As proof, he presents accounts of different incidents:
The decline of Star Trek’s reputation amongst followers started with Star Trek: Discovery, which first flaunted racial divisions and an specific on-screen gay relationship earlier than pushing even additional to the underside of the identification politics barrel once they launched a Trill character who, regardless of clearly being a girl, lectured her crewmates and viewers on how she needed to be known as “they/them.”
In novels, Star Trek creator conduct turned off a number of followers to their TNG-era continuation collection, with long-time Trek author David Mack canceling his visitor of honor look at MidSouthCon. He did so to taunt the state of Tennessee, which had a legislation that prevented employers from coercing their staff into taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Mack wrongfully said that his motion was “as a result of Tennessee state legislation makes proof-of-vax necessities unlawful.” The legislation didn’t affect the conference, which may have required proof of vaccination to attend, however they selected to not.
Oh no! They’d homosexuals on the present, a personality who was performed by a girl who mentioned she was gender impartial, and a novelist canceled a go to to a state over their dangerous insurance policies on COVID. Subsequently, “a number of followers” have been turned off. That’s it.
Mysterious reader who despatched me the hyperlink, I don’t know what you have been attempting to do. Had been you attempting to show that my views on intercourse and gender, that are fairly near that of the Vulcan within the comedian e-book, are “disgusting” to the anti-“woke” hordes who was followers of Star Trek? Or have been you simply bringing on extremely silly article to my consideration so I may snigger at it? It might assist should you’d ship me the hyperlink with a sentence or phrase to inform me what you considered it.
