btw: this is the closest Trek has gotten to having an actual trans woman character in 60 years and 900 hours of stories
it’ll officially happen
maybe i will get to help make it happen, maybe someone else will
but it will
some day, one day
like, listen, it has wounded my heart so deeply to have never ever seen myself truly represented in the fictional world I love the most
but there she is and i
no, fuck— i’m legit tearing up
representation matters
it MATTERS
so much
legit just cried a bunch over how much this means to me
i can’t even put it into words
hurting and isolated and alone little Tilly found so much hope in Star Trek
and all along she was seeing someone just like her and didn’t even know, more hope waiting right under the surface
i’m a wreck
@tillybridges now i am weeping
Oct 2, 2026, 9:31 PM@tillybridges she was in so many episodes! I'm totally crying 😭
@Bikil and two movies! she was right there all along 🩷
@tillybridges @Bikil I got teary when I looked her up and saw her in her undercover look in Montana from First Contact
@tillybridges Jesse James Keitel playing Doctor Aspen/Captain Angel in Strange New Worlds S1E7 "The Serene Squall"?
@tillybridges not sure if i've overlooked something about your post that would make this info superfluous, but for its many faults New Trek has had several certifiably queer & trans characters & actors: 2 gay men, a lesbian, two nonbinary people and a trans woman who played breif role as a villain whose main purpose seemed to be to teach Spock about himself lol.
For all the queerness present in it, i'm not crazy about New Trek in general or the ways it handled queerness in particular. 🤷
@itsmeholland I am well acquainted with new trek, enough to tell you there was not a trans woman on SNW, Captain Angel was nonbinary and played by Jesse James Keitel who identified as nonbinary at the time, though has since come out as a trans woman
Star Trek as yet has no trans women characters played by trans women actresses