Some Disco links

[lizbee]

1. Fanworks

spacefungusparty's hiatus exchange is live!

I rather cheekily requested a vid to the Battlestar Galactica version of "All Along the Watchtower", and got this. THE PARALLELS. THE CONNECTIONS FORMED THROUGH LOVE AND FEAR AND DECEPTION AND HONOUR AND HOPE. THE EXTREMELY LITERAL "A WILDCAT DID GROWL".

I also have to recommend "Logic Suggests", Kat/Sarek fic in which they should have sex for the good of the Federation. It's logical.

2. Articles

I linked to this interview with all the women of Discovery at spacefungusparty, but I keep coming back to read it again and again.

(Okay, "all the women" minus the actresses playing Detmer, Owosekun and Airiam. So that's "only" Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Mary Wiseman, Mary Chieffo and Jayne Brook. For a series that started out by killing a major female character and leaving us with the Star Trek standard issue 30% female cast, that's pretty amazing.)

Also, there was this interview with Jayne Brook and Mary Chieffo which I liked a whole lot

There's also a third interview with Brook which came out in the last 24 hours, which actually kiiiiiiiinda got on my nerves a little? Like, yes, it's amazing that the season ends with Cornwell alive and undiminished*, especially in a media landscape where older women in authority tend not to last very long. Especially since Kat was originally conceived as a Dead Admiral Walking.

But, like, that alone isn't what makes Discovery feminist? It's the variety of women in the show which makes it special, and, ya know, there's been a woman of colour at the centre of every single episode, the heart and soul of the show, the actual protagonist.

I get that this is really just a framing device for a very small interview with one person in particular, but I don't think it's possible to appreciate Sonequa Martin-Green too much.

(Having said all that, I watched "Chain of Command" last night, aka the introduction of Vice Admiral Alynna Necheyev aka my third second favourite Starfleet admiral and third favourite space vice admiral. And Natalia Nogulich is only ten years older than Jayne Brook, so she was playing a vice admiral at just forty-two years old. So on the one hand, in-universe Necheyev is the most ambitious little Slytherin you will find in a Starfleet uniform; on the other hand, in the real world, she is just absurdly young for that rank, and I'm glad we've moved on to a point where we can cast age-appropriate women for these roles.)

* What's an attempted war crime between friends? LOOK, IT WAS SAREK'S IDEA.

Finally, looking at the fandom itself, magnetgirl wrote "A Tale of Two Kats: How Star Trek Fandom Improved My Life". This piece warmed my heart, which, as you know, is charred and blackened and generally hates joy.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

Wow, that vid is just fabulous. So glad that you made the prompt and someone so talented took you up on it.

[mekare]

You should totally link that a tale of two kats piece in spacefungus! I found it very uplifting too and it gave me alll the fuzzy fandom feels.
Btw, can I have meta tag for spacefungus? I’m still trying to organise the colllated meta post but by now it’s been pushed back a lot by newer entries. There was the headcanon post attempt as well, it should have its own tag too.

[nenya_kanadka]

Still not over the world being near-doomed and finally saved by...five women arguing with each other (with words, with fists, with a phaser and a bomb or two). I've loved the 25-30% female casts before, but I'm never gonna be over this until it's normal to sometimes have major plot arcs where the Sareks and Sarus and Ash Tylers help out a bit but it's mostly all women.


SAREK'S IDEA, MAN! Look, buddy, can you not see temptation when it's staring you in the face in the form of "Michael can't HANDLE the truth"? Dude.