And sidenote: they're Starfleet officers... Of COURSE the women in ST are supposed to be strong and capable.
We're not talking about
actual mature competence. Discovery has no idea what real maturity looks like. Every single one of its "empowered" women are weirdly immoral people lacking self-control or rational ethics, a pale shadow of actually good female characters.
But the show makes sure that they are almost comically successful at any kind of fighting, engineering, etc in every scene as if it's some kind of Marvel superhero film... while falling over backwards to ensure that the men around them do not seem that way:
It's obvious how the minds of these childish writers work, since the gears in their heads turn so slowly that you can read every scene's subtext from ten miles away. They think that this kind of thing makes the women badass, even the moments like unethical torture, killing, etc. They actually believe that this is edgy and empowering.
But they're only showing us how permanently stunted their minds are, and how no one involved in writing this show could possibly comprehend the actions of a genuine leader like Picard on TNG. I'm offended by their degradation of the intellectual quality of the show, by their idiotic glorification of violence, by their use of profanity and other elements, as if they are teenagers who snuck onto their parents' HBO subscription for a week and want to emulate GOT, and by their reduction of female characters to comic superheros who are badass as they are unethical, petty and emotional, by their evident resentment towards and fear of any traditionally masculine virtues of leadership or professionalism, .... I could go on.
Any person
should be bothered by the very existence of these fools and their attempt to take the title of Star Trek. I don't care if anyone enjoys it, it's trash that makes us all worse people for merely existing out there under a franchise which used to stand for something.
