I read a post this morning which as I understood it basically said that season 3 is a throwback to the fans that like white men being the best/center of the story. And it’s at the cost of diversity.

I have been consoling myself really with the “canon is a box of scraps” and “if store bought sucks, home made is fine”, “death of the author” “we can make it what we want” etc.

But step further. When I have the spoons I attempt to write. I have a crisis that I will never be good enough BUT my original fiction is diverse. Not intentionally diverse, I am not attempting to tick boxes. I just have ideas for various queer fiction. A lot tbh is inspired by shows that frustrated me as it was right there and ignored in favour of the cis straight white guy etc.

I guess what I am trying to say is I love Trek. I love so many established franchises but the future can be ours. Somebody somewhere in the world who has considerably more talent than me I am sure, could be inventing a queer sci-fi franchise right now. In the current climate it would probably struggle to get made so maybe it exists as a novel, or a web comic, or something.

Sorry I don’t think I am making sense. I guess I am trying to say if diverse fans are being iced out of Trek, then we can most definitely refuse and say fuck you homemade is fine, and fix it all in fanfic. We can also go and make our own universe which is ours from the beginning. I swear I had a point. I’m not sure I have made it. Sorry.

@Purlturtle

To my mind, Star Trek was queer (as in, subversive) from the beginning, so I’ll be damned before I leave the field to the cishet white male Trek bros – nobody will get me to leave, or stop demanding better from the powers that be

I think this is what annoys me the most. Now I don’t know Roddenbury or what prejudices he had. However for the 1960’s he crafted Trek to be diverse with the Russian on the bridge, Uhura as a competent officer not a servant etc. So in my mind diversity has to be hardcoded into Trek’s DNA. It is supposed to be inclusive, that was the intent from the start.

But I guess I think we have debated this before? That the 25th century might have less prejudice but it is being written by people in the 21st century who don’t always realise their cultural/subconscious biases (and that’s being generous and giving them the benefit of the doubt that it isn’t on purpose).