{"id":36416,"date":"2019-08-21T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=36416"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:52:21","slug":"spacial-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/spacial-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I recently gave in<\/strong> and started watching <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_Discovery\">Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>, after two seasons of waiting in vain for it to show up somewhere other than the CBS subscription service. I&#8217;ve been following along and reading caps, though, and my curiosity finally got the better of me. And I really like it so far!<\/p>\n<p>Even though I\u2019ve already read spoilers and know who the characters are in general terms, I was deeply moved this morning as I watched the end of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Choose_Your_Pain_(episode)\">Choose Your Pain<\/a>\u201d, one of the earlier episodes. Even though I already knew that the show is the first in the Trek franchise to include a gay couple, they way it presented <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Hugh_Culber\">Culber<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Paul_Stamets\">Stamets<\/a> in their quarters at night touched me so deeply. It was just so&#8230;normal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FE7221C5-68FA-4D00-AA0A-C3C9F9D875A8.jpeg\" alt=\"Culber and Stamets brushing\"><\/p>\n<p>They were just talking about the day\u2019s big events while brushing their teeth. There was no melodramatic declaration of identity. No romantic grandstanding. Not even a clear mention that they were a couple, or married. Looking back on the episode, it seems clear that others understood their relationship, and thought little of it.<\/p>\n<p>The couple didn\u2019t even kiss in this scene. But yet it was so <em>intimate<\/em>! A familiar and moving interaction between two people who shared a life. I was floored. It turns out this was the representation of gays I\u2019ve been waiting for all these years, especially in something that I love the way I love Star Trek. The gayness was incidental, yet unmistakeable. Inherent to the characters and their interaction, but not a plot point in itself. It just felt like it was part of their lives \u2014 clearly important, but one element of many. I hadn\u2019t realized how badly I\u2019d want to see it this way. Where no one has gone before, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48121793-D78E-4131-929A-63F7497F3DAF.jpeg\" alt=\"Culber and Stamets bein\u2019 sweet\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave in and started watching Star Trek: Discovery, after two seasons of waiting in vain for it to show up somewhere other than the CBS subscription service. I&#8217;ve been following along and reading caps, though, and my curiosity finally got the better of me. And I really like it so far! Even though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/spacial-representation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spatial representation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultranerdy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36419,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416\/revisions\/36419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}