Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x07 - "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption"

[Anna Yolei]

. The heck is wrong with a bird-creature* (instead of a human) going at it with "the nozzle"? Live-action Trek has shown far more already; this scene was a nonstarter.

My very first Trek I tuned into was the ENT series premiere and I was here in this board when spoilers for "Harbinger" came out and we thought we might actually get to see T'Pol's entire ass on screen. Even the half inch of crack we did get was enough for fanboys and shippers alike to feast on for weeks.

Nothing on Lower Decks sex-wise has come close to matching the stuff that ENT got away with routinely, including this bird/robot loving Always baffles me that people get soooo angry about sex in this show.

 

[fireproof78]

Always baffles me that people get soooo angry about sex in this show.

It is not something Trek handles well. I don't get angry that it's in the show only that I think it's usually handled more like a teen drama or fan fic.

 

[Oddish]

Nothing on Lower Decks sex-wise has come close to matching the stuff that ENT got away with routinely, including this bird/robot loving Always baffles me that people get soooo angry about sex in this show.

There's a difference between sexual and strange.

 

[Sumire]

It is not something Trek handles well. I don't get angry that it's in the show only that I think it's usually handled more like a teen drama or fan fic.

I’ll agree it’s handled like a teen drama or poorly written fanfic but well-written fanfic handles the emotional and interpersonal (sex sometimes included or alluded to) lives of characters better than anything else out there.

 

[Anna Yolei]

There's a difference between sexual and strange.

This being sci-fi, why can't we have both?

 

[fireproof78]

I’ll agree it’s handled like a teen drama or poorly written fanfic but well-written fanfic handles the emotional and interpersonal (sex sometimes included or alluded to) lives of characters better than anything else out there.

Having a wife who writes fan fiction (not Trek) and works hard to create powerful interpersonal relationships (not just romantic ones) I do understand. I just see that in the shows themselves romance is handled, well, like Hollywood. Oh we laugh, we fight and we make up. That's a relationship. It sounds nice, but it actually misses out.

And that's more frustrating for me and has been for a long time.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

This had the look and feel of a really bad Saturday morning cartoon. All it needed to complete that vibe was to be animated in twelves.

I rewatched with the commentary track, hoping to find out whether they were deliberately trying to parody that genre. Alas, hoping in vain.