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aceofwands · 3 months ago

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1000% and it's especially egregious in the modern shows imo because like, in Sisko's case it was a symptom of their overall "oh no this is our first concurrent spin-off we HAVE to differentiate it from TNG!!" panic - which also led to them doing stupid shit like forcing Avery to grow his hair out even though he was far more comfortable with his later look because heaven forbid they have two bald leads!!! hence them quickly and unceremoniously promoting him at the end of the third season when Ira was like ffs why exactly is he a Commander?? cause he also thought it was dumb as fuck (and wasn't in charge until season 3 lol)

but what is the excuse for the new stuff??? Disco especially pissed me the fuck off when they not only killed off Captain Georgiou and robbed us of the incredible opportunity to have our first Trek show where the Captain and First Officer duo are both women - but then to pour salt into the wound there was season after season of white dude Captains!!

I'm not saying I dislike the "having to wait for and earn the captaincy" storyline. There's obviously a lot of really interesting stories there and great character beats that have resulted in some of my favorite Trek characters. But there is an extremely noticeable pattern in which show leads need character development to move up the ranks

And who is presented as inherently qualified from the beginning

And before anyone mentions her, yes, I know we have Captain Freeman, but she's not the lead of her show

#don't even get me started on AOS and its stupid Cadet to Captain pipeline for Kirk #as if he's the chosen one or some shit #anyway I will literally never ever be over Disco robbing us of Captain Georgiou and XO Burnham #the potential for that mentoring relationship #which would honestly have been even MORE interesting since we were in Burnham's POV #and like ngl I'm a bit iffy on the inclusion of Lower Decks when the whole premise is that they're lower deckers #but also like ..... why exactly wasn't Mariner the earnest Boimler type and Boimler the rebellious Mariner type #you cannot tell me there weren't some subconscious biases at play when we chose who would be the earnest nerd (white dude)#and who would be the rebel who had been demoted over and over (black woman)#and the same with Dal and Gwyn in Prodigy #there IS a trend there and we SHOULD be talking about it #but yeah in Sisko's case at least I'm willing to give it more of a pass #because it feels part of that overall trend of them overcompensating with differentiating DS9 from TNG #cause like there was no real storyline of Sisko needing to learn or grow or anything to become Captain worthy or whatever #he WAS always qualified and never shown as anything but in the first 3 seasons #hence Ira being like this is stupid lets just fucking promote him already

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