Rookie mistake known as the Lavelle Maneuver.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Also known as the Timbit Gambit.
The interesting thing about Space Battleship Yamato is how its a reflection of Japanese culture in a similar way as Star Trek says a lot about American optimism, especially of the 1960s. Both properties express a lot about how cultural baggage is filtered through the space opera formula.Name it something other than Arizona.
The Arizona is a mass grave. Too many people died there.
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Both series are centered on vessels carrying the names of famous WWII warships.
But Yamato feels like the fantasy of a culture that suffered scars and gets a future where those scars get to be corrected. The Enterprise is a lucky ship that endures just like her WWII counterpart and always saves the day. The Yamato is a refurbished wreck that's the last hope of a nearly defeated people.
And, in the end, the Yamato gets to be the super-weapon it was designed to be. The people in Space Battleship Yamato get to reverse the radiation and bombing that they've endured.
Make it something else.
According to Memory Alpha, he was born in Alaska.
My humor subsystem is down for maintenance. Maybe there's a joke here? (New upgrade coming online Tuesday.)
Missed the request for more Canadian representation.
He was mistakenly identified as Canadian in the TNG episode Lower Decks. (We learn by doing.)
Ah, right. Riker explicitly denies he's Canadian, after the waiter thinks and has told others that he is.
It's worth noting that nationality appears to work differently than it does today, seemingly a mere indication of geographical affinity? It's been said to work differently in other episodes as well, but I don't have a list handy at the moment.
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The perfect character fluctuates between a stiff upper lip when needed and a quivering lower one when appropriate.
As Kirk would say, if I can honesty it is easier to overlook mistakes.
I prefer emotional honesty rather than a facade of health
I prefer emotional honesty rather than a facade of health
Did I miss the scene in “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” where they explained to us who or what T’Kumbra was?
Vulcans + T'something = Vulcan Ship Name. (Maybe a S--k name.) So Star Trek itself had done some 'splaining.
So?
The series of books isn't set up to be "Space America" and neither is the show's casting.
- Plenty of actors were cast who aren't North American (Dominque Tipper, Florence Faivre, Shoresh Aghdashloo, Frankie Adams, etc.)
- Lots of actors/characters are multiracial and/or from ethic backgrounds which aren't really immediately clear to Americans. This makes sense from a worldbuilding perspective, as of course there will be more mixed race folks in the future, particularly off earth.
- The show went pretty deep into worldbuilding with Belter Creole, meaning even actors like Cara Gee, David Straitham, and Jared Harris came across as "foreign" in a way they wouldn't with Canadian and British accents respectively. I think an argument can be made that essentially all belters (other than those who tried to "assimilate" like Miller) are coded as non-white within the setting.
The Expanse (I love the Expanse) also depicts a Solar System on the brink of interplanetary war. (Belters would find the term interplanetary to be exclusionary, I'm sure.) If you're looking for a show about peace and harmony it isn't The Expanse.
(I finally got to read the last novella last week.)
Making it so we can guess it's most likely Vulcan isn't the same thing as explaining what it's named after.
But I mean the point is that a remark that of course a North American show will depict a cultural landscape familiar to North Americans just isn't true.
Hell, if I wanted to go further afield, there's now a well-trod tradition of American shows explicitly depicting East Asian settings, from ATLA to Blue Eye Samuri and Shogun.
North American audiences don't require North American-esque settings!
What's required?
No, but they never explained Exeter either.
Oh, nice reference. Forgot about her.
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