Trying to make sense of ST Disco plot is one of the signs mental health professionals use to ascertain whether someone is nuts.
It’s just very ”woke” for the sake of being woke, at this point. I know the original was ahead of its time (alas) for the way they depicted racial and gender equality, and probably in 20 years they’ll do the same to this, but for me I just sit there watching it with my head tilted to one side in utter confusion, wearing much the same expression my doggo has when my wife lets rip a particularly rough one.
”Tonight on Discovery, Stamets examines his relationship with his ressurected husband, as Adira the non-binary symbiote who isn‘t really a symbiote bit they’re just living their best life, reconnects with their former trans boyfriend who’s dead but not resurrected, but was in fairness an
actual symbiote (although look, let’s not use labels). Meanwhile, Burnham transcends space and time to be with her human/klingon/who knows ex boyfriend, while Saru rocks gently back and forth wishing he was in any other sci-fi series than this, because he’s in a ship powered by
mushrooms, man…”