I will just put myself out there and say that particularly as a veteran I find caring about Star Trek generally real fuckin embarrassing and think the franchise really has had questionable value
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"How do I make people sympathize with this nerdy repressed robot guy" "Just make him gay for the himbo jock They'll all lose their fucking minds"
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Okay but also Roddenberry has less to do with the characterization of Trek characters than most people think? And Kirk as a jock is really kind of more meme than reality (at least in TOS: there's several episodes where it is noted he was a shy *nerd* at the Academy).
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It seems striking here that while both characters strongly resembled humans, they were not human men.
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There's this whole forbidden fruit thing where they represent toxic masculinity caged This sense they *could* become just another violent predator in theory but they *must not* (Vulcan logic, Three Laws of Robotics)
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