Should STD be held to a higher standard?

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What? If you really want to get into a detailed conversation on how Worf and Jadzia were bangin' each other with this new info we could, but you could always use that imagination of yours you constantly accuse the DIS writers of not having.

Also it's a continuity nod to the fact that Klingons have redundant organs, so a redundant penis wouldn't really be out of the question (that's not even the only explanation anyway, humans sometimes have two streams when they pee, and multi-pronged penises are not uncommon amongst Earth animals either). Yeah it was never explicitly established, but then, we knew jack about the Klingon reproductive organs beforehand anyway, so it's not a continuity contradiction either way. Don't be obtuse. You're just complaining for the sake of complaining.
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We don’t even know about Trill reproductive organs, or all they really just humans with spots?
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Bashir was able to do it easily with Ezri, who's the same as Jadzia biologically, so yes.
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What makes you think any of these interspecies romances involved the same form of sex humans engage in with other humans?
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Bashir is human... Troi, who also did it with Worf, did it with Riker, who is also human... seriously...
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...And? What makes you think any of these interspecies romances involved the same form of sex humans engage in with other humans?
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Yukaphile, just use your imagination.
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I just don't know what Yuka is looking for. So are you asking that they stop the show so they can exposit on how aliens with wildly different physiologies manage to pleasure each other, or do you want them to explain it with outside material, so you can proceed to dismiss all of them as "making up excuses" to further justify nitpicking at inconsequential shit instead of applying Occam's Razor like most sane audiences should?
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That wasn't even the topic of this thread. It was that STD has far more lore that it needs to scrupulously adhere to than TNG did when it started, which is a crippling weakness that requires an extra-firm eye on making sure your continuity errors are keep to a bare minimum. Throw in that each writer has their own unique vision for what they feel Trek should be, and a tendency to disregard anything that isn't, and you have a recipe for what I feel is STD's biggest flaws - namely all the continuity flaws that make this feel like more of a Kelvin Timeline show. Let's get back to topic, okay?
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Except that your complaint about the Klingon penis is very much relevant to that, because you're arguing that it's some kind of continuity contradiction when it clearly isn't, because there's no continuity to contradict. We didn't know anything about the reproductive organs of any Trek species before this, and technically we still don't, because a 5-second shot of a Klingon with two streams of piss could be interpreted numerous ways.

If you define continuity error as "new info about the universe I don't like", there's no way for DIS to win in your eyes.
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