Stamets [Mirror]

30s. Gay. Star Trek lover.


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  • Eh. Yahtzee hasn’t sounded the same for years and I hoped this switch would change that. It didn’t. Lords of the Fallen he sounded like he had no energy and this is better but not by much. He just sounds so tired of doing this. I don’t blame him. New content every week with the same angry energy is a lot to keep up but he stopped being a reviewer using anger as his gimmick and just slid down into insults = review. Same as CinemaSins. Really sad to see.











  • Stamets, surprising absolutely no one.

    He’s the first gay main character, has a surprising amount of character development, has a great sense of humor and at first he reminds me way too much of me. Or at least how I used to be like. Then he grows into the person I’d like to be. Someone who cares about people and who tries to reach to others to help them when they need it.

    Characters not perfect but I do love him. I will never not love him. I cannot tell you just how much seeing a gay character on screen was important to me. I grew up with Trek and there was so much diversity and inclusion for everyone but I was invisible. People pretended like I didn’t exist in the real world so when the future didn’t have me in it… It was disheartening. Still trusted in the promise of Star Trek and loved it but felt… Lonely.

    When Stamets came on screen for the first time I absolutely hated him. Then slowly he started to grow on me. By the end of his second or third episode, I was already really soft on him but when they did the scene where Stamets is brushing his teeth with Culber and you become aware they’re a couple?

    I cried. A lot. For the first time I could see myself in Trek. For the first time there was real representation and love without shying away from it. Moreover, it wasn’t dressed up. There was no forcing it. It didn’t feel awkward or strange. It was perfect. They just did the scene like they would for anyone but it just happened that these people were gay. Stamets isn’t the “gay character”. He’s a primary character who happens to be gay. I cannot tell you how much that means to me.

    I will forever love Stamets for so so many reasons.




  • Well, Tuvok is one of the worst Vulcans around in general. He lets his emotions get the better of him a lot, as we saw throughout Voyager, but I never saw this line as something that was ‘un-Vulcan’. Then again that’s probably because I’ve always taken this scene as Tuvok ‘giving way’ a little bit. He does that occasionally on the show, sort of putting on an emotional front or putting things in emotional terms, to help soothe various characters with whatever they’re dealing with. Considering that she was about to die and was freaking out about her kid (which was directly putting her at further risk by raising her heart rate/breathing rate in a closed environment) I just assumed Tuvok sort of… manipulated the truth a bit to calm her down.

    Granted that’s just my headcanon.