Zoe Zaldana Appreciation Thread

[M'Sharak]

I don't know who Zoe Zaldana is.

Do you mean Zoe Saldana?

From the top of Zoe's webpage:

compliment people
magnify their strengths
not their weaknesses

Brava!

Oh, but you couldn't stop there.

What wonderful words to live by, would you agree Vger23?

You had to go for extra points with the personal dig, and you've been asked more than once to refrain from doing that sort of thing. This one will earn you a warning for trolling. Comments to PM.



P.S.: If I'm not mistaken, you've also been asked more than once to refrain from using the at the end of each and every post, so you really ought to stop using it.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Last year the SyFy show Defiance had a storyline spread over a couple episodes about "alien cross dressers," people who dress up as a different species and hang out in a night club of other, like-minded individuals. I thought it was one of the more creative ideas on the show.

That, on the other hand, sounds rather cool. I've been lamenting the lack of human Klingons. We had so much Klingon culture in our face in TNG, and yet, other than Dax who was not even human, not a single outsider ever though to embrace it. Picard and Quark flirted somewhat around it, but that was it. (Or am I forgetting something?)

I could also see Saldana's Uhura and her crew going to a party on Qo'noS for an undercover mission. With or without any plastic surgery from McCoy's legendary hands. I think she is more than prepared to handle any incident there, given her performance in way more unfriendly circumstances.

Just don't bring Scotty and Keenser along. Can you imagine what will happen if you told them both the Enterprise needs to be hauled as garbage?

On a second thought, please bring them.

 

[The Wormhole]

I've been lamenting the lack of human Klingons. We had so much Klingon culture in our face in TNG, and yet, other than Dax who was not even human, not a single outsider ever though to embrace it. Picard and Quark flirted somewhat around it, but that was it. (Or am I forgetting something?)

Well, there was the Voyager episode where the Doctor creates a holographic family, which then gets modified by B'Ellanna to be more "realistic." In this scenario, the Doctor's son hangs out with Klingon kids and even tries to take part in their customs. Granted, this is a fictional simulation, but presumably this sort of thing does happen in real life.

Also, DS9's Children of Time, we see a group of people who live outside the town and follow a Klingon lifestyle dedicated to honour and hunting animals for food. They're even referred to as "the Klingons" by everyone else even though a number of them are human.

Just don't bring Scotty and Keenser along. Can you imagine what will happen if you told them both the Enterprise needs to be hauled as garbage?

I've always imagined Keenser is actually quite a ferocious fighter despite his size. So were he and Scotty to end up in a brawl with bunch of pissed off Klingons, Keenser would probably wipe the floor with the whole lot of them single-handed.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Thanks. I even believe I might have gotten that idea from watching those two episodes. I need to watch Children of Time again.

 

[Dales]

Zoe Saldana is the best "thing" about NuTrek. She's basically its one redeeming quality.

right now she has the most star power

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think they need to have a scene where she and Kirk are at a costume party and she's dressed as an Orion, and Kirk says something like, "Didn't you go as an Andorian last time?"

Haha that reminded me of the disco on Defiance where humans were dressing as Votans and people found that offensive on the forums.

I think the whole costume thing is a fun idea.

 

[Malaika]

I wonder if Zoe will bring her adorable twins on set

I think they need to have a scene where she and Kirk are at a costume party and she's dressed as an Orion, and Kirk says something like, "Didn't you go as an Andorian last time?"

on the other hand, if Spock were to participate to a costume party he'd probably be like

 

[Nerys Myk]

This is Spock dressed as a serial killer

 

[Starborn Dragon]

Dressed "as [other species]" sounds like a party that would be in bad taste in the Federation.

Last year the SyFy show Defiance had a storyline spread over a couple episodes about "alien cross dressers," people who dress up as a different species and hang out in a night club of other, like-minded individuals. I thought it was one of the more creative ideas on the show.

Babylon 5 did an episode of that too, but it was a one episode story in which the station was being forced to sell merchandise. You saw two different aliens buying alien masks and walking out with them.

 

[thumbtack]

She is beyond appreciation.

See what I did there?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

PLUS SHE WAS GAMORA......I LOVE GAMORA

 

[Kruezerman]

How many Hispanic actors played main characters in Star Trek?

 

[Jedi_Master]

She's basically its one redeeming quality.

Em,

Karl Urban would like you to report to sickbay...at once

She is beyond appreciation.

See what I did there?

*squinting.... yes! Yes I did.

 

[Malaika]

I just saw the Keenser's gif, aww he cares about Scotty so much. I wish they gave him more a personality though, rather than making him too much like Scotty's personal pet.
The comics did it a bit better because they made it clear that he is an officer like the others.

sometimes the challenge in franchises like trek is precisely the fact that in theory you have a reality with aliens who should be considered people just like the humans, but in practice unless the alien has a humanoid look (e.g., Spock) they are always treated as the cute/weird being and not really written as people so the humans still appear as if they are the default people.

This is Spock dressed as a serial killer

that was too easy

How many Hispanic actors played main characters in Star Trek?

Khan? (ironically..) not so many, I guess, especially not afro-latinos.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

She's basically its one redeeming quality.

KEENZER!!! *glomps*

But back to the OP, Zoe makes this Uhura very strong, I think.

 

[Nerys Myk]

How many Hispanic actors played main characters in Star Trek?

Off the top of my head I'd say three.
Beltran
Biggs Dawson
Saldana.

 

[M'Sharak]

How many Hispanic actors played main characters in Star Trek?

Off the top of my head I'd say three.
Beltran
Biggs Dawson
Saldana.

If we're talking main guest stars: besides the aforementioned Montalban, I can think of Percy Rodrigues and Henry Darrow, and after that I start drawing blanks. There must have been some others?

 

[Kruezerman]

There's my appreciation, I like the fact that someone of my ethnicity (even though she is playing somebody from Africa) is a main character in Star Trek.

Okay I'm Mexican and she's Colombian, but still.

 

[M'Sharak]

Okay I'm Mexican and she's Colombian, but still.

She's Dominican, no?

 

[Kruezerman]

Yup, and Puerto Rican. Unfortunately.