In Star Trek: Deep Space 9 S01E08 "Dax" cis legal and medical professionals spend an hour arguing over the nature of an allegorical trans woman while she sits in silence passively enduring it I can't think of a more infuriatingly accurate depiction of the trans experience
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The episode is literally called "Dax" yet the eponymous character has like 3 lines of dialogue total. She doesn't get to do anything. She's never the audience point-of-view. She's a prop in her own story. She's at everyone else's mercy. It's frustratingly accurate in a meta way
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The script of "Dax" even takes time out to remind us on multiple occasions how every guy on DS9 wants to bang her just in case anyone thought we'd stop fetishizing transfeminine people in The Future
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In hindsight I should have been more prepared to *have feelings* about any Dax-centric DS9 episode but in fairness not only did I not expect the writers to get it so dead-on I'm honestly not sure if it was intentional or not
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The best Star Trek memes are Dax memespic.twitter.com/CeqDaEkrC5
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Replying to @autogynamelia
She comes from an ancient culture and all the philosophical questions they're asking obviously have answers on her own planet but the Trill are so "secretive" no one thinks to ask them, even though this is a fucking murder trial
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I mean the point of a space opera setting is partly to reintroduce the ancient world's idea of distance and time into a futuristic setting - different star systems are supposed to be truly far away in a way nothing on Earth is right now But still
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