Yesterday a well-intentioned local friend (who knows I've been struggling to find enough income to help me reach a critical long term stability goal) sent me a job posting for Spanish speakers...
to spy on Spanish-speaking populations for government.
Ah. No.
Not that I'd ever get the job if I were to apply for it (so my moral objection is moot) - but it's always fascinating to see what others don't even realize might run afoul of a friend's ethics.
Hope your own weekends are less narc-y! :)
@MLClark That's... really something.
Just picturing you setting up shop as a simple tailor. 🙃
(One good example is that Seska sexually violates Chakotay, claiming to have stolen and impregnated herself with his sperm while he was kidnapped... and it's just played as a cliffhanger ending. No wrestling with the trauma of violation. That, and the Doctor's dismissal of men fighting over Kes as something she should be flattered by, & Tom's... Tomness... are just taken as givens - but in TNG & DS9 there's no way such things would be tolerated. It's a very gender-reductive production.)
@MLClark I share your pain in regards to the weirdly reductive writing. I got through Voyager very quickly, mostly because it gave me nothingnto chew on. Except maybe Tuvix 😆
On my second and my partner's first watch of DS9, we're just kind of taking the subtext as text with Garak and Bashir. Makes for a better watch, at least before they introduce some love interests because "they're totally straight guys don't worry!".
@MLClark Also, I'm enjoying S3 of Discovery because it seems to be starting to actually mean something, and that the world doesn't exist solely to justify the character drama. But I just watched Unification III and all that imploded in a single scene with a mother-daughter drama serving as an appeal to vulcan emotion. Very soap opera.
I stay for Saru and Tilly (though they seem to have artificially reduced Tilly's self confidence again, which is upsetting).
@JakeA And all of this is BEFORE the showrunners get impatient with ratings, throw in Seven, and make her front-and-center of most every plotline to leverage sex appeal for views in later seasons. Sigh.