Should we keep quiet about things we hate in fandom?
So, I recently saw this tweet from Star Trek: Picard season 2 and 3 showrunner Terry Matalas, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Matalas posted a two part meme of a woman sitting in what looked like a pew talking to someone off screen in two screencaps. The caption of the first screencap read: "You think it's okay to hate things. It's not. It's boring." The caption of the second screencap, focused on the woman's face, read: "Talk about what you love, and keep quiet about what you don't." In a tweet made an hour later, Mr. Matalas posted, "What's funny is, I didn't even post this in regards to Trek. But wow, do the responses show that I should have." [photo below, not described since description is above.]
The irony here is that Mr. Matalas himself is so thin skinned that between seasons 2 and 3 of Star Trek Picard, he blocked people who were curious to know what was going to happen to the existing cast. We fought for something we loved and were largely ignored when the characters we loved were written out. This screenshot had to be taken from my main Twitter, because he has my fandom twitter blocked.
While I think fandom should definitely be diplomatic about it as much as possible, I fully disagree with Mr. Matalas' statement here. I also think it shows how thin-skinned and also narrow-minded he is with his vision for Trek. Now, maybe I interpreted him wrong-- but takes like this are just . . . mind blowing to me. I'm all for letting people like what they like, but this is another level
Very nicely worded… now for my version.
No we should not sit quietly back and be good and shut up when we have a homophobic prick running an important section of Star Trek who blocks queer fans for simply daring to ask about Seven and Raffi, who deletes a beautiful forward thinking positive long term queer relationship and who might well be running a chunk of Trek for some time for come.
I am so sorry** Mr Matalas if the existence of queer people, fans and characters offends you but have you ever stopped to consider that the problem may actually be YOU sir and not US?
If people can yell and scream about the Harry Potter woman then yes Trek fans can make their voices heard about Trek’s prejudicial showrunner.
Honestly, the cult of personality that has sprung up around this guy is disturbing.
** actually not sorry at all
