Star Trek: Discovery and diversity

 Everybody but Burnham is LGBTQ: Star Trek Discovery.

I'm a long standing member of Blu-ray.com, and one thread is about the third season of DISCO. One of the viewers claims/complained that Tilly is gay; Joann & Keyla (bridge crew) are gay; Adira and Gray (new characters) are gay; Jett Reno is gay; Saru is non-sexual; Phillippa is pansexual; and, of course, Stamets and Culber are gay. Hence the remark that Burnham is the only straight member of the main crew. And that Seven of Nine and Raffi played handsies in the season finale of Picard so they are also totally gay.

Let's just ignore the fact that Star Trek has pretty much avoided (TOS, Enterprise, Voyager) or danced around the LGBTQ issue in one episode of Next Gen (that one with Riker) and DS9 (Jadzia Dax and a previous love when she was a man meet again). I've patiently watched Star Trek since that first night in September of 1966. I never expected to see LGBTQ characters, and even if the entire crew of Discovery WERE gay, I would simply say, "About time" and move on.

But it seems to me that Tilly and Po were good friends not sexually or romantically involved. Joann and Keyla are good friends and supportive coworkers but not sexually or romantically involved. The others mentioned are each somewhere along the LGBTQ relationship spectrum and more power to them.

This past week's episode showed Stamets and Culber in bed together in their jammies. My husband, who has seen far less of this on TV, turned to me and smiled. Of course, both of us always note and joke about Rob & Laura Petrie having twin beds, as did just about all straight, married couples on TV and in the movies back in the era of primarily B&W images, especially on TV.

I guess I like to imagine that the future will be more evolved than we are or have been. As evolved as I like to see myself since I simply celebrate any romantic couplings on TV especially (and all my RAoF heroes are LGBTQ). If any crewmembers on Star Trek in general are also along that LGBTQ spectrum, so much the better. And if the entire crew of Discovery were actually LGBTQ, that to me is no different than that entire Vulcan crew in TOS that was wiped out and which Spock felt their passing so definitively.