• GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    It was presented as exceptional in-universe, from Adira’s perspective. The fact that Adira felt weird about it at all paints the culture they grew up in as backwards.

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      Again, though, that completely removes the context of Adira’s character arc.

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        How so? Perhaps I’m misremembering, but they were born on Earth and raised among humans, right? Does that not say something about the human culture of their time?

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          They were amnesiac following being joined with the Tal symbiont - they only sorted out these identity issues after Discovery took them to Trill.