• FlatFootFox@lemmy.world
    311·
    11 days ago

    You can make this whole spectrum with unambiguous and canonical Discovery characters alone.

    • Lesbian: Jett
    • Gay: Stamets & Culber
    • Bisexual: Georgiou
    • Transgender: Gray
    • Queer: Adira (Non-Binary)
    • Plus: Michael Burnham, who’s also involved for some reason

    To say nothing of the representation on Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. New Trek’s been killing it.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      131·
      11 days ago

      Georgiou: Bisexual

      When she starts flirting with Stamets, he says that he’s always been gay. She then responds with “Don’t be so binary”. Makes me think she’s probably closer to Pansexual

      • FlatFootFox@lemmy.world
        101·
        11 days ago

        True, but it makes for less amusing acronym jokes.

        Also, whoops, I really should have checked the username before Discovery-splaining in the comments. I know you’ve been back for a bit, but good to see you around Stamets. 👋

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
          8·
          11 days ago

          Oh 100℅, I’m just being a pedantic ass lol

          And don’t… Don’t take a look at my posting history for today then lol 115 posts in a very short period of time. I have a problem.

          As for DSC, I know it well but doesn’t mean I am wrong on stuff occasionally. Besides I like seeing other references to DSC that I haven’t made lol

  • macniel@feddit.org
    271·
    11 days ago

    Something ain’t right.

    Jadzia isn’t Lesbian and Dax would fit more in the Trans category.

    And on the Trans category that’s a J’naii right? Wouldn’t that make them be a more fitting representation of A or I?

    But what to fit in Intersex or then Agender?

    • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      And on the Trans category that’s a J’naii right? Wouldn’t that make them be a more fitting representation of A or I?

      I think that’s Soren specifically, who was assigned agender at birth but identified as female. So trans suits.

      Agreed an Dax, though - definitely pansexual, not a lesbian.

  • fuckgod@feddit.onlineEnglish
    121·
    11 days ago

    I feel like (fuzzy memory of DS9 here, so feel free to slap me with facts) Bashir seemed more biromantic than bisexual. I never got the feeling he wanted inside Miles’ pants. He just wanted to spend all his time with him.

    • Autonomous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      11 days ago

      This meme is really stretching to begin with.

      Jadzia wasn’t a lesbian. She could have passed as Bi, but she is so often referenced in trans discussions that it seems like she should have been T instead of that one off character from TNG.

      I guess the author struggled to find a character for L so they slapped her in there lazily?

      Even Odo could have been used for T because his people don’t even have genders, they emulate them purely for the convenience of the audience. 🤷‍♂️

      But then Garak did not feel strictly gay either. In fact it seemed like his attraction was more based around the quality of someone’s interaction rather than their gender.

    • Autonomous@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      This implies that people cannot have platonic relationships with people of the gender(s) they are attracted to, which is bullplop.

      • fuckgod@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        That wasn’t intended to.

        I feel like 90s TV wasn’t able to do but so much before networks would throw a fit, but my head canon for him and Miles is a shared custody with Keiko lol. Whereas I see him and Garak a little more platonic, with the questionable possibility or slight implication of something else. xD

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    101·
    11 days ago

    Wouldn’t Jadzia Daz be pansexual? Or bisexual? Or… Something not easily defined by human standards due to the whole symbiote relationship?

    • fuckgod@feddit.onlineEnglish
      41·
      11 days ago

      Definitely not lesbian. Put Reno there for sure.

      I don’t know how to categorize Dax. I don’t think we know enough about the symbionts to even know if they’re sexual at all, much less how they fit in the sexual spectrum. (or at least if we do, I don’t remember. I wasn’t friendly to the spectrum myself last time I watched DS9. I still shudder at the memory of who I was brainwashed to be)

      I don’t remember what we knows about Kira, but she always seemed like she had very lesbian energy to me. Again, it’s been since 2013 since I’ve watched that show, so I bet it was revealed, but I can’t remember myself. But whatever she is, you gotta admit she seems like she could be.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
        9·
        11 days ago

        I don’t remember what we knows about Kira

        Kira was, I think, exclusively shown being romantically interested in Men. First Bareil, then Shakaar and lastly Odo near the end of the show. Mirror Universe Kira was a completely loose cannon though.

        • fuckgod@feddit.onlineEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Now that you mention it, the name Bareil does ring a bell. And the Odo pairing sounds vaguely familiar too.

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Excuse me?! How is Bashir in Bi when mirror Kira is all over everyone, man and woman, and that is obviously just a reflection of how Kira is, just the evil version.

    I am willing to chalk up the undertones with Garak up to media at the time being afraid to portray gay men. I’m super glad that Discovery got a chance to do that. But still, he’s not the poster child of the show for bisexuality!!