@zigg Oh, no, I just forgot! :) Thanks!

@cassolotl I really liked that one 😊 Appreciated that dimension to her character but never really thought about why…

@zigg I like Evil Kira! I wish Good Kira could be like "hey maybe I could stand to be a little evil for the ladies, huh??"

@cassolotl Having trills as representation for transgender people is an interesting assertion. I will have to look more into this.

@TipsyTentacle Yeah, a lot of these are very shaky associations! They're kind of trans like the Doctor is (now canonically) trans - their gender can change between lifetimes.

@cassolotl @TipsyTentacle I think that's what speculative fiction can do. It's not that Trills are trans. They're not. But watching a Trill episode such as The Host can make you look at gender in a new way.

@TipsyTentacle Yes, Geordi is a bit of a tricky area. He's kind of blind in the same way that I am blind without my glasses, because ~futuristic technology~. It's like blindness is no longer a disability in the future, but he is definitely still blind in the same way that I am still visually impaired.

@Damage I love Evil Kira so much! :D

@bstacey Thanks, I've not seen that one! I should watch it for research purposes. :D

@cassolotl I remember it being one of the better TOS episodes, but I haven't seen it in ages.

@pervyoneofnone Yes, and I'm absolutely certain that Julian and Odo wouldn't be considered autistic either - I'm kind of approaching this from the point of view of a minority on the outside looking into the Star Trek universe and seeing themselves reflected back, even in not-strictly-correct ways.

@cassolotl Understood. So Dax could be under more categories depending on spoken pieces or visual representation.

@pervyoneofnone Yes - so far I've got her under trans (and I could put her under nonbinary too), and same-gender attraction.

@cassolotl While I recall Kira as non-binary, I'm not 100% sure that was not fan fic.

@pervyoneofnone Interesting. :) I've not seen anything so far that suggests she's anything other than a woman.

@cassolotl Oh, my terminology may be off / old. Perhaps I mean pan?

@pervyoneofnone Oh maybe! I'm fairly sure Kira is at least bi, because in the mirror universe the Other Kira is definitely sexually attracted to women *and* men, so it makes sense to me that that'd be the case in the... non-mirror standard familiar universe too? Even though she only ever dates men and man-like people.

@cassolotl And we're already talking *actual* inter-racial. I just don't remember the episodes well enough. I'm more on the Doctor Who side.

@pervyoneofnone Oh fair enough! I do enjoy Doctor Who. I need to watch more of the older episodes, I feel. :)

@cassolotl Ok, I'm only moderately old. I've been to Con sessions with those who watched from the beginning. Then the TVs had only ~300 lines of resolution depending on how you count. So the effects were more "realistic." And they didn't say the Doctor was an alien until the first regeneration, hence that first movie.

@cassolotl Not that I'm a fanatic or anything.

@pervyoneofnone Haha, I'm autistic, most of my friends are into the info-dumping - it's all good! :)

Pffff, moderately old. :P

@cassolotl Well, I'm not as old as the folks who have watched the Doctor since its debut in '63.

@woozle Ohhh, someone else just recommended "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" - I'm gonna watch it this evening for the blog post. :)

Thanks for the recommendation of The Menagerie, too!

@rotatingskull Oh I heard about that! :) I need to watch more TOS!

@cassolotl Mania: The Entire Crew Of The Enterprise D, The Naked Now

@cassolotl Firsonas: The Entire Crew Of The Enterprise D, Genesis

@AgNo3Kate Oh true! The blog post is done now - it ended up mainly being about people who had humanish minority characteristics that were, like, built into who they are, and it usually ended up with them being aliens. So the blog post ended up being like this: http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/165599446910

@cassolotl That was great! Also, rather tangentially, I'm kind of in love with makeup art that's designed to baffle facial recognition and your post makes me feel like I have EVEN MORE license to paint unexpected lines on my face.

@AgNo3Kate Thank you! Also I am fascinated by that kind of make-up thing too! :)