• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Okay but this erases the much larger discussion about ableism, something that Geordie’s character (sometimes clumsily) personifies.
    “Don’t fix me, I’m not broken”.

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        9 months ago

        not if you only consider is cyberEyes to be mere upgrades to his visor (which, if you’ll recall, also hurt him to use) rather than a “cure”.

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      9 months ago

      Ok this is making me really think I need to watch this show. It’s a statement I’m often frustrated that able folks don’t get that some of us have.

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        9 months ago

        I do have to warn you, the quality varies. Rick Berman and, strangely, Gene Roddenberry himself, both held the show back: forcing rewrites; being sleazebags; crushing cast interpretations of their own roles; and projecting their hangups onto the franchise for as long as they could.
        Progressiveness isn’t always linear.