The real issue with Discovery is that they fridged Michelle Yeoh so they could make Burnham the main character, a character they went to great lengths to show us is a violently xenophobic mutineer, and yet who is still somehow more open minded than nearly everyone else on Discovery.
Star Trek is supposed to be woke and Discovery wasn’t. Having a black main character doesn’t make a show woke, actually promoting social progress makes a show woke.
Did you know they made a Star Trek show all the way back in the early 1960’s? Captain Kirk beamed down to the planet Vulcan years before Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. Star Trek: The First One Doesn’t Get Subtitles had among its main cast three women, one of them black, an Asian man, and a Jew. That’s not what made the show woke. What made the show woke was “What are you people even fighting over?” “They’re white on the left side.”
In the space year 1962 Gene Roddenberry hired someone to stand in front of a TV camera to be broadcast nationwide saying “Do you people see how fucking stupid racism is now?”
Fast forward 60 years and the first or second thing I hear about a TV show is a list of demographics among the cast. “It’s a Star Trek® sequel and the captain’s a non-binary Australian aborigine and the science officer is a gay Korean and the…” “You’ll call me a xenophobic bastard if I don’t pay to see it just like everything made in Hollywood since 2016. Got it. What do they do?” “What do you mean what do they do? It’s Star Trek®.” “So they engage in a series of morality plays, work together as a team, come to diplomatic solutions to solve problems…?” “No, they bicker like juvenile siblings among each other, talk back to the captain, they scream, they cry, and kill any aliens they come across. But we payed Paramount a lot of money so we’re legally allowed to say the word “phaser.”” “I’m not paying to see this.” “How could you, you xenophobic bastard?!”
The real issue with Discovery is that they fridged Michelle Yeoh so they could make Burnham the main character, a character they went to great lengths to show us is a violently xenophobic mutineer, and yet who is still somehow more open minded than nearly everyone else on Discovery.
Star Trek is supposed to be woke and Discovery wasn’t. Having a black main character doesn’t make a show woke, actually promoting social progress makes a show woke.
Did you know they made a Star Trek show all the way back in the early 1960’s? Captain Kirk beamed down to the planet Vulcan years before Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. Star Trek: The First One Doesn’t Get Subtitles had among its main cast three women, one of them black, an Asian man, and a Jew. That’s not what made the show woke. What made the show woke was “What are you people even fighting over?” “They’re white on the left side.”
In the space year 1962 Gene Roddenberry hired someone to stand in front of a TV camera to be broadcast nationwide saying “Do you people see how fucking stupid racism is now?”
Fast forward 60 years and the first or second thing I hear about a TV show is a list of demographics among the cast. “It’s a Star Trek® sequel and the captain’s a non-binary Australian aborigine and the science officer is a gay Korean and the…” “You’ll call me a xenophobic bastard if I don’t pay to see it just like everything made in Hollywood since 2016. Got it. What do they do?” “What do you mean what do they do? It’s Star Trek®.” “So they engage in a series of morality plays, work together as a team, come to diplomatic solutions to solve problems…?” “No, they bicker like juvenile siblings among each other, talk back to the captain, they scream, they cry, and kill any aliens they come across. But we payed Paramount a lot of money so we’re legally allowed to say the word “phaser.”” “I’m not paying to see this.” “How could you, you xenophobic bastard?!”