On that note, there were literally no women (except Leia), aliens, or people of color in the 1977 and 1980 Star Wars films on the side of the Rebels, yet neither the Legends or Canon continuity ever established the Rebels as being speciest or other -ist. (Although the old Legends "Farlander Papers" work did have Mon Mothma make a blatantly speciest comment saying "Palpatine was a rodian in ewok's clothing!")
That's why I just look at it as Pike's comment was him having a REALLY bad day, preliminary Talosian mental tampering, etc. that was an isolated incident and Number One knew that and thus didn't haul him over to HR immediately, or he apologized to Colt afterwards offscreen (I think the Marvel comic series Early Voyages featuring Pike actually had the latter happen)That's not true. There is a woman sitting at a bridge station. PIke actually reaches across her to grab a printout from Garrison. After which he makes the infamous women on the bridge comment
That's not true. There is a woman sitting at a bridge station. PIke actually reaches across her to grab a printout from Garrison. After which he makes the infamous women on the bridge comment
But it’s not evidence of the opposite either. And since there is plenty of evidence in the series that Starfleet does not discriminate against women it doesn’t make sense to use two very questionable examples to say they do.
bit it’s there and doesn’t conflict with anything. Pike had a bad day and said something stupid. Regrettable but it happens.
Maybe not with the Rebels, but Legends continuity did depict the Empire as being every form if "-ist" possible, with it pretty much established that only white human males could rise through the ranks of the Imperial military, with odd exceptions, like Thrawn or Admiral Daala who managed to rise the chain of command despite not being either human or male. Indeed, the post-ROTJ Imperial remnant even makes it a plot point that they have to start recruiting females because they have such a severe personnel shortage.
I think you exaggerating that there. There's very few, and Thrawn was discriminated against at the officer academy for being an alien.
That's because the new Disney Canon couldn't make up its mind whether it wanted their Empire to to be inclusive and diverse or bigoted. This culminated in the stormtrooper Kreel clearly written at the start as a red alien, then later being said to be human with the red skin clumsily backtracked as really being tan or something by LFL on twitter.
I was basing the comment on the novel Thrawn, at one point Thrawn dines at a restaurant on Coruscant which caters only to the Empire's social elite, among which includes many aliens. And I recall many alien politicians in the Disney comics.
Yeah sorry I missed that you were talking about the government, not the military.
If you think about it, the fact that Number One immediately looked at him after he said that can also be an indication that not only is what Pike said not true, he's acting completely differently than usual. It's not like she just grimaced and continued looking at her console.
If the Klingons turn up this season, they should look different again, just to mess with our heads.
Precisely.
you are the one trying to “force” a lime out of the continuity because you don’t like it.
Their contract expired.
Continuity is mutable. Things that no longer work (or never did) can be ignored and tossed aside. Not every line is of equal value or etched in stone.
