I didn’t know there was someone lined up before Beltran. Can you imagine the drama if the actor was put into a position to be like “Uhh, guys I’m not sure what’s going on but this script is total bs”

they are the larval form of the blinking tubes

mods this guy is breaking the rules

Honestly sums it up. /r/im35andthisispandering

The most tasteful way I could include a non white human character directly referring to their non white culture as being a part of their identity while also tiptoeing around the fact that the specific culture being represented was… not real

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i don’t think that ever happened

And the one time they finally gave a single throwaway line to the fact that enbys exist, quote-unquote “progressives” suddenly clutch their pearls over it.

Listen, you got the job done not to mention this meme is specifically about how nitpicking representation is harmful to representation.

There are a lot of people out there who are “totally ok with the gays” but put such a high bar on what constitutes acceptable representation that it starts to feel like bigotry by omission.

I tried to work in a Pa’nar syndrome one but it was too clunky. I appreciate how you just slapped “HIV ALLEGORY” on it 😂

Nope they’re just hanging at Quark’s

I’m discussing canon and “off-screen” is definitionally not canon. Canonically, it’s hard for me to see Adira’s gender as anything other than an extremely small side detail about the character as it’s only brought up that one single time in passing.

Hm I don’t remember that. Can you point me to a line of dialogue or anything outside of that (again extremely brief) clip I posted to support your argument?

A lot of big names here!

Got it, you’re saying you are happy to see the inclusion of a non-binary character, just upset that it wasn’t communicated a few episodes earlier?

Huh? How is Stamets supposed to know if nobody tells him?

EDIT: Also Uhura’s Blackness and femaleness were most certainly addressed in-universe in a longer scene than I shared above.

I’m asking is there anything on screen to support your claim other than that very brief line of dialogue?

I’ve actually encountered a lot of free radio streams with human DJs for at least the majority of the day. Two off the top of my head:

https://www.nts.live/

https://www.thelotradio.com/ (this one even has a camera on the DJ)

Where is it reflected in canon that Adira was “afraid” to come out, keeping their gender a “secret”, or otherwise had to “work up courage”?

Again, just a single line of dialogue or anything from the show that illustrates that the topic was covered more than that scene I linked to in my initial comment.