If you’ve forgotten how progressive TOS was, you were never part of the core audience.

That’d be nice! But it’s not a sign of great storytelling when producers have to spoil future events to reassure the audience that they aren’t completely fucking up.

Ultimately, I find the contentious problem of fridging being a question of consequence. For me, it’s too early to answer that here. Does Culber’s death narratively belong to Stamets or Tyler, moreso than giving Hugh his own agency? Even if Hugh was better developed than most victims of fridging, if he doesn’t get to…

Let’s get real here for a moment. The UFP of supposed to be a kind of worldwide government that represents all of earth. White people only represent about 15% of the earth’s population, roughly one billion or so, between the US and Europe. (Canada and Australia’s populations are too small to be statistically…

Why did Kirk have to kiss Uhura? This is a franchise that has traditionally been about challenging our preconceptions, and pushing our boundaries? The question really should be, why not?