I just finished listening to Leonard Nimoy’s I Am Spock ready by the man himself. It was interesting listening to him talk about how he approached being a Vulcan and how much he fought to change scripts to keep Spock from becoming… this. But then something else struck me. Nimoy was also into theater and reading a variety of things. A lot of writers for television, movies, or video games today are not creative people. Sure there are plenty of people today that could paint you a perfect replica of The Starry Night. How many of those same people would have the ability to make their own? It’s why everything is derivative self insert fan fiction. When they got their degrees in “journalism through the queer lens” they never had to read anything outside their safe spaces with intellectual training wheels.