After 60 years, it was nice to see myself (lol) up on the screen too

be gay, you get teleportation powers and immunity to time loops from mushrooms and also get one free revive for your partner

I'm gay for Mr. Rogers. Can we get him back?
- If you bring him back without his wife, he's going to politely explain why you should, and you're gonna wipe a tear from your eye and agree with him.
Nevermind all that. Dr Culber alone is enough reason. Staments/Culber is one of my favorite relationships in TV ever.
Edit: But I wouldn't say no to mushroom powers, of course!

Congrats, @Stamets.

I'm almost through my first watch of Discovery and I'm amazed at what I'm seeing. I'm happy to hear that character portrayals like this are getting the thumbs-up from the community.

I'll throw in that, as a sensitive cis-het male myself, seeing emotionally in-touch authority figures like Saru and Pike make me feel seen. Older Trek shows just didn't have that, with men oscillating between horny and angry as their entire emotional range. So it's not just Stamets' composite (and super wholesome) family. IMO, the writers are clearly trying to bring a better portrayal of humanity to the screen.

THANK YOU! Discovery gets a lot of flak from people for not portraying the typical Captains that we've had before but I've always thought that was the point. Also something to be celebrated. It's nice seeing this crew as a family and not just a crew. Took a while to get there but after the events of Season 2 and the start of Season 3 it'd be hard for them not to get there.
I'm glad you've been enjoying the show, buddy. Hopefully my on screen counterpart has provided some laughs and good feels along the way as well. Equally as hopefully, you can see why he's my favorite character on the show.
- Disco stands out at the Star Trek series that really commits to queer representation rather than shoving it in the background and/or discarding it (looking at you, Picard and to a lesser extent LD). At the end of season 3 I was floored when Stamets described Adira as his child because I could definitely see the found family trope progressing and was mentally joking he should adopt them, I just didn't expect it to pop up from subtext to text. It definitely feels like a more modern discussion of queerness than past series did.
  ...not sure how I feel about them destroy the subtlety of Trill as trans metaphors though. It's cool, it just feels very heavy-handed.
- Well shit, now I need to go catch up on discovery. I’m not even sure where I left off!

Gay or not, are there seriously people who would choose Discovery over TOS?!

Yeah. I'm a huge fan of both, and it's early to tell - but I'm pretty sure I'm going to rewatch Discovery more than TOS.
- Enjoy!
- That´s how I feel about it too. TOS is old Star Trek with weaknesses typical for the time, especially the sexism is horrible. Discovery on the other hand does not even feel like Star Trek but more like anti-Star Trek made by people who hate Star Trek and is just an overall bad tv show. That is of course only my personal perception and I am happy for everyone who has a good time watching New trek stuff.
- Aside from a handful of episodes, TOS aged perfectly fine.
  You'd be hard pressed to find any show with as many episodes and different writers that doesn't have a couple of shows with a bad take or two.

Dang dude your waited 60 years? You're way older than i thought!

😭