How about Janeway misgendering 7/9?
How about Janeway misgendering 7/9?
I have the swagger of a Mariner and the sincerity of a Rutherford
Start with season 2 of TNG, proceed through TNG and DS9, then watch whatever looks interesting.
OG Captain Kirk flirted with a 300 year old prepubescent girl in Miri
I’ve been in situations like that at work. I always ask what the senior worker’s reason for doing things different is, because then I’ve benefitted from their experience too
Wow, you and I have very different tastes
There’s a game about that. It’s called Exapunks. You play as an anarchist hacker who is slowly dying to a degenerative disease that turns your flesh into electronics. The medicine to keep your disease from progressing costs 300 dollars a day, so you learn how to hack from a zine and then start making money for your medicine and taking down capitalism. At various points you have to use your hacking skills to reprogram your nerves so your body will continue to function. Send a virus to tell your heart to beat and so forth. The gameplay is based on a modified version of assembly and actual programming puzzles that make sense in the context of the cyberpunk world.
Sisko also cooks
What about Linux?
The Borg are interested in both numbers and diversity. It was a later retcon from Voyager that they reject some hosts
I didn’t know we had a queen. I thought we were an autonomous collective
And it’s a perfect direct democracy
When 7/9 was cut off from the network it begged to go back and felt horror and revulsion when ots implants began to decay. Janeway said tough nuts, you’re a human now whether you like it or not. Janeway is a kinphobe.
Also Janeway relentlessly misgendered Seven of Nine until it assimilated into her crew
Also society relentlessly bullies neurodivergent people with whom they have difficulty empathizing. Neurotypicals already have a weak hivemind and they attack anyone who can’t or won’t join it. Neurotypicals are the borg, except not communist. They’re the Borg but worse.
Turbolasers aren’t lasers, they’re plasma
The Borg referred to themselves as “we”, and use the third person pronouns they/them. The Borg refer to Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjuct of Unimatrix Zero One as “this drone”, and use the third person pronouns it/its. Seven of Nine also did not particularly enjoy being referred to as “Seven”. It was a concession made for the sake of efficiency and the comfort of the humans, but it voiced its dissatisfaction with the choice when it consented. As a nonbinary person, I have also consented to identifiers I didn’t like for the sake of others’ comfort. I recognise the experience and have direct empathy. Given that we are communicating in a text format, it requires negligible effort to refer to it as 7/9 and preserve the precision with which it wished to be referred.
Now as to 7/9’s stated preference and opinion of Janeway:
It allowed itself to undergo conversion therapy to become a woman because it saw no other choice. It was locked in a prison until it agreed. That is not consent, that is coersion. It is survival.