Hated big bang theory as it betrayed autistic people as “smart but extremely awkward” trope that genuinely me a lot of my fellow autistic people I know very much hate. As it’s utterly inaccurate as what neurodivergent people are.
“Your autistic? Oh like Sheldon?” Is usually when I start to question if I should be around that person.
Bashir was pretty arrogant about it too like he thought that just because they was genetically engineered and just like him he thought they couldn’t be wrong or accidentally do something bad.
The whole episode felt like it was neurotypical people trying to make a episode about neurodiverse people and failing at it because they didn’t get enough input from the disabled community. (Felt like that. Not saying it was or wasn’t)
And I’m absolutely sure that neurodivergent people had input and was listened too they could have made a amazing episode about it about accepting people who are different genetically in that way.
Those 3 where not bad people they didn’t seek evil or Malice they genuinely wanted to help. But instead the show just kinda thrown them under the bus and never talked about them.
They didn’t talk “normal” they didn’t have “normal” behaviors. So start trek just saw them as broken and unfixable.
They could have helped the war if they had help with there disabilities and understanding there problems and strengths too.
But the whole genetic engineering thing and eugenics felt kinda weird throughout most of old star trek. Always felt “off” in a way.
Eugenics is bad and all. Not debating that. But how they didn’t seem to have little to no neurodiverse people in old trek kinda wasn’t as good in that way.
But it was made in the 1990s iirc. We know more about it now a days then we did back then.
Also seeing properly made autistic people in start trek now a days always makes me feel seen and heard.
Yeah I understand that. I am also neurodivergent too. And honestly that episode just bothers me about how they are betrayed with the 3 “genetically altered” people. It felt unrealistic because those “problems” is something therapy and just accepting them as who they are would work wonders on those 3 people.
I don’t hate that episode but I dislike it at most. They could have had it where they was at the start just how they was and slowly Bashir actually helped them and helped start fleet understand that just because they are different genetically doesn’t necessarily make them impossible to help.
I kinda saw that as just there young and not experienced yet. Also it’s the first time the academy has been made for a long long time so the strictness of it all I would think wouldn’t have been as high before the burn happened. But I didn’t really pay attention to that. Can’t get into the drama type stuff. But valid point though
I was expecting some satire YouTube content, not a actual legit show. Now I have something to add to my watch list.
Factorio Minecraft and rimworld
But that’s been the same for last few years so shrugs
Probably will all die because it ain’t sg-1.
Same. Tired of the fucking switching of platforms every few years.