Yes, you read that correct.
Remember the thread I made 3 months ago about Sam Maggs writing Star Trek comics?
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17r9N9IYuv/sam-maggs-is-now-writing-star-tr/c/
Well in issue 3 Picard gets mentally raped by a classmate
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Star-Trek-Picard-s-Academy/Issue-3?id=223257#12
And then physically beaten by the same classmate after Picard tries to push the rapist away.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Star-Trek-Picard-s-Academy/Issue-3?id=223257#13
And nothing happens about it.
No charges filed. No firing of the cadet who just raped another. Nothing.
Because it happens to a man.
Those of you who will have seen older ST media may remember the concept of mind raping to have been addressed before. Deanna gets mind raped in both the TNG series and later Nemesis movie. T'Pol has a male vulcan force a mind-meld on her in Enterprise that has lasting consequences to her health for several series. Other series also looked into this but as was the case with Deanna and T'Pol the one being mind raped was always a woman.
In this comic Sam Maggs writes Picard being forcefully mindscanned, something likened to rape by many telepathic species both in Star Trek and other franchises, yet there are absolutely zero consequences brought towards the rapist.
So that's Sam Maggs now with "rape advocate and fetishist" to add to the list of things when describing just how badly any works written are.
Wow that sucks. At least there are a lot of the Star Trek comics from the 80s and 90s to read.
Anything after the JJ reboot movie isn't worth watching or reading, and depending who you ask many of the TNG films aren't worth it either due to various retcons and inconsistencies.
The Picard series introduced a lot of backstory to Picard which basically turned him into an abuse victim at the hands of his parents and this comic seems to be compounding that albeit not actually talking about the point the Betazoid just mindraped Picard.
Also these aren't even my own main gripes about the Picard series, that I've brought up in other threads before.
I heard Picard season 3 was good but I haven’t seen it. I gave JJ movies a shot and was going to give Discivery a chance but they ran their mouths about diversity and representation and gushed over a black female. I was like the show has had a black captain and female captain over 20 years prior. Final straw was the cast taking a knee for Kapernick.
Trusting reviews of "It gets better after X" is always pretty risky. If something is consistently bad, the reviews will still get consistently better, because people who didn't like it are a lot less likely to keep on trying. So is it really better in season 3, or did all the people who would say otherwise stop watching after season 1 and 2?