• Value SubtractedM
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    313 days ago

    What, in your view, was “exceptional” about Stamets’ acceptance in that scene?

    • @GenderNeutralBro
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      13 days ago

      It was presented as exceptional in-universe, from Adira’s perspective. The fact that Adira felt weird about it at all paints the culture they grew up in as backwards.

      • Value SubtractedM
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        213 days ago

        Again, though, that completely removes the context of Adira’s character arc.

        • @GenderNeutralBro
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          313 days ago

          How so? Perhaps I’m misremembering, but they were born on Earth and raised among humans, right? Does that not say something about the human culture of their time?

          • Value SubtractedM
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            213 days ago

            They were amnesiac following being joined with the Tal symbiont - they only sorted out these identity issues after Discovery took them to Trill.