• @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 days 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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      215 days ago

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

      • @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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        315 days ago

        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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          215 days ago

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