#you CAN tell he was written by white people in the nineties 😅

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#i do love tom paris but uh #you CAN tell he was written by white people in the nineties 😅 #'i respect your mixed heritage!' good! 'so TELL ME about it and i am going to insist upon - ' whoa there nelly. not ur place boy #he's so CLOSE to being a modern day good egg. and he isnt always WRONG. but he's probably more entitled than intended #simply because of the context in which he was written #like! he is pretty much always respectful of (non-holographic) women! #his easy acceptance of seven #and the fact that - unlike many rl men i know - he will actually apologise. like 'about the batleth program? sorry i pushed you' #or how he genuinely uplifts people at their low ebbs - like 'maybe im asking for trouble' no it's bad luck #'im feeling jealous' kes only has eyes for you #so CLOSE. cursed by what nineties writers thought was mostly suave and a little dickish but modern audiences find kind of inappropriate #or what seemed supportive if brusque but now seems like an overstep #it's an interesting phenomenon #stv