An interesting discussion of disability in Star Trek by the SpaceCrip Blog: "People don’t want to see cripples. We’re scary. We’re what could happen to them. A weak Klingon who can’t meet his enemies in battle. A Human who relies on others for help—who can’t function as the pure autonomous individual that Humans prize so much on the frontiers of space. What to do? We gotta get these gimps out of sight somehow. For Klingons, for Worf, this means getting cured or getting dead. The simple cure-or-kill principle." spacecrip.wordpress/2012/10/26/the-ethics-of-tng-era-imperialism-and-ableism/
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:04:43 +0000
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