There are still plenty of those. My word the histrionics from some corners around this film are absurd.
Comrade, this is a Wendy's.
Look at me, I hate thing, give me attention
I'm still rooting for COVID to take him out of commission, personally. What a redemption arc that would be.
Kassia Nox needs a spinoff. That character was great.
There's a bit of a glut of genre shows right now after Agatha and Penguin wrapped, so I'll probably watch this regardless. It's just a bonus if by chance it's actually good.
It's a matter of quality of life. If someone without conventional hearing can have the same quality of life through other means, then there is no need to "fix" them, unless that's what they want.
Obviously debilitating illnesses and pain are still dealt with, but stuff like missing limbs or other traits that we might call handicaps are not the same impediment in the future as they are to us, because there are so many possible paths for every individual to choose, and many of those might even be better suited to someone with a unique physiology.
The point about accomodation is the key here.
If being born without functioning legs isn't actually an impediment or challenge because society makes allowances for people without legs, then it's no longer a handicap!
If a blind person has options beyond merely having their sight "restored" to that of the baseline "normal", then they have options that might open up paths that regularly sighted people don't have, in which case their unique trait of being blind becomes an asset.
There's the secret to the utopia Star Trek positsv not that we try to "cute" everyone born different, but that we instead create opportunities for them to thrive as they are. In the future of Star Trek, the word "disability" is probably alien to them. Rather, they would describe someone in our time with such challenges as "disenfranchised" because we don't offer them opportunities.
Hell, I've been waiting for 99942 Apophis to swing by us since Stargate was still on the air. Still got five years left on that one, but 2004 when that was first called out as a concern was the first time I really started contemplating the idea of the actual end of the world, in a bang not a whimper.
Sure, Y2K was supposed to cause some chaos, and 2012 was fun from a "what if magic is real" sort of angle, but everything else has been a gradual dawning realization that the world as we know it is probably going to be gone in my children's lifetimes -- not over yet, but profoundly changed, more difficult, the slow closing of the book on a golden age for humanity we didn't fully appreciate while we were in it.
There's a trope out there that Gen Z has to do everythingbfor themselves because the older generations have failed them so thoroughly.
That would be pretty stupid even for him, but nothing is off the table anymore, so fingers crossed.
Satire is dead. I earnestly predict at least one more pick on this list proves actually true.
Not even pretending to not be driven by cronyism.
I'm old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.
Sisko/Benny theory
So we learn at the end that Sisko's birth was engineered by the Prophets, right? That he was always destined to be the Emissary because that's how it had to be, from the nonlinear perspective of the Prophets.
So what if they based him on a man from Earth centuries before (perhaps one of his father's ancestors)? He does say at one point that maybe God is trying to tell him to quit writing and go into the restaurant business, betraying a love for cooking, which maybe he passed on to his children - and maybe he passed this on to his descendants, one of whom moved to New Orleans and opened a Creole kitchen, which would stay in the family for many generations...
They chose this man because by some quirk he had genuine future-sight and saw forward into the life of Sisko because of their connection established by the Prophets - creating a self-sustaining loop.
Now of course that doesn't explain why all of the people in Benny's life are so similar to Sisko's people (or is it the other way around?), but maybe there's something there about celestial-temporal archetypes, or Benny is projecting those faces and personalities onto his coworkers because of his strange and exceptional mind.