In Star Trek: Deep Space 9 S01E08 "Dax" cis legal and medical professionals spend an hour arguing over the nature of an allegorical trans woman while she sits in silence passively enduring it

I can't think of a more infuriatingly accurate depiction of the trans experience

The episode is literally called "Dax" yet the eponymous character has like 3 lines of dialogue total. She doesn't get to do anything. She's never the audience point-of-view. She's a prop in her own story. She's at everyone else's mercy.

It's frustratingly accurate in a meta way

The script of "Dax" even takes time out to remind us on multiple occasions how every guy on DS9 wants to bang her just in case anyone thought we'd stop fetishizing transfeminine people in The Future

In hindsight I should have been more prepared to *have feelings* about any Dax-centric DS9 episode but in fairness not only did I not expect the writers to get it so dead-on I'm honestly not sure if it was intentional or not

The best Star Trek memes are Dax memes

Wow I honestly had no idea there were that many transphobic Star Trek fans

what is even the appeal of this franchise to reactionaries

"diversity & diplomacy" is a message neither based nor redpilled