#And the gays on Discovery are there to be movable furniture that garner PR-friendly GLaaD interviews

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#deep space nine #star trek #trek #kira nerys #Worf #Worf son of Mogh House of Martok son of Sergei House of Rozhenko Bane to the Duras Family slayer of Gowron #trill #bajorans #klingons #for the record this episode tells a better queer story in 40 minutes than Discovery tells with twice the gay people in four seasons #and while i am ranting #Garak being queer coded and having a shotgun 'no homo' straight relationship forced on him by a homophobic producer #Is still a more interesting queer character than Discovery's four seasons of an openly married gay couple #Because Garak is allowed to have depth and internality #And the gays on Discovery are there to be movable furniture that garner PR-friendly GLaaD interviews #and then have to go back to the queer basement to affirm and validate one another by ritually chanting 'I feel seen' while the music swells #this is only a slight exaggeration of how Discovery tells corporately anodyne queer stories #I think my favourite thing about this episode is that its established up front that Trill society frowns on rejoined-symbiotes hooking up #with old flames but everyone on the station bluntly goes 'yeah but these two should absolutely bone down'