It's got people talking and curious.
Fan reactions to Starfleet Academy's female Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrid character
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I don't watch Youtube videos. Stuff like this is why.
Agreed. Much more so than a totally original alien species would have.
It's the 32nd century. Trump is very, very long dead and people are allowed to choose their gender and sex without any judgement.
That goes for Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrids, too.
That goes for Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrids, too.
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Nothing is confirmed until canonised on screen by the show runners/producers of this new show. This Academy character does not look like a hybrid Jem’Hadar/Klingon to me, but I could be wrong. Could equally be a generic species…. With characteristics designed to appease DS9 legacy fans? 
A hybrid character? One that's not even in the main cast??? How does that indicate anything?
LD already did that
We literally saw the character on screen
So, you're seeing the characteristics of a "DS9 species" yet don't see that it's Jem'Hadar?
Just based on her look in the trailer and the fact that they cast a comedic actor for the role I’m kinda fascinated where they are going with her. Neither the Klingons nor the Jem’Hadar are particularly known for their sense of humor, so I have to wonder if they are playing with people’s expectations of how such a character would be portrayed.
I personally think the whole “half this/half that hybrid” concept seems somewhat fannish, but I’ll give them that: the idea of a female Jem'Hadar is pretty original and the character looks rather cool.
As for what “people online” are saying about her … who gives a fuck? Like clockwork those very same people you would suspect hating her are hating her.
I personally think the whole “half this/half that hybrid” concept seems somewhat fannish, but I’ll give them that: the idea of a female Jem'Hadar is pretty original and the character looks rather cool.
As for what “people online” are saying about her … who gives a fuck? Like clockwork those very same people you would suspect hating her are hating her.
I don't know about fannish. Trek has been playing that card on the pro level since Spock. We've had Saavik, Troi, K'Ehleyar, Alexander, Miral, Torres...
There's discussion and then there is "discussion". But, yeah including the character in promo material is a way to create buzz about the show. But buzz probably isn't why they were created.
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Who claimed they “created the character to create buzz”? Also, “discussing the character’s origins” is not same as talking about her “body size”.
Well no, they obviously didn’t invent the concept. There have been plenty of hybrids in Trek before. What I meant was both the amount of hybrid characters (four, if I’m not off) and the way the writers think it’s the first thing we need to know about a character, as if it told us something inherently interesting about them. Granted, previous Trek did this as well, but again, it’s just the amount that seems a bit excessive is all.
Trust me, though, if this is written well and I enjoy the characters this whole thing won’t end up bothering me even one bit.
Advertising a new product makes business sense, even if trailers suck.
Random videos on the Internet for clicks is dumb.
I assume its a comment on our increasingly multi-cultural and bi-racial society.Well no, they obviously didn’t invent the concept. There have been plenty of hybrids in Trek before. What I meant was both the amount of hybrid characters (four, if I’m not off) and they way the writers think it’s the first thing we need to know about a character, as if it told us something inherently interesting about them. Granted, previous Trek did this as well, but again, it’s just the amount that seems a bit excessive is all.
Trust me, though, if this is written well and I enjoy the characters this whole thing won’t end up bothering me even one bit.
I like that thought. Would be neat if they addressed that more overtly during the show.
Thank you for that bit of info as it finally made all the pieces fall together in my mind. I wondered why she seemed familiar to me even through the makeup and why the name seemed familiar as well. I have finally identified where I know her from. She's hilarious.
With the added personal context you get from this comedy bit, you have to wonder if the usual suspects who are so up in arms about this character only are so because she's being played by a gay, black woman? That would certainly track.
She’s brilliant. Thanks for posting that bit!
Bingo. You just know this crap that will keep the usual racist / misogynistic / homophobic idiots on YouTube and elsewhere busy for years. And I’m not looking forward to that kind of stuff rearing its ugly head here as well.
She's also vocally anti-Trump.Bingo. You just know this crap that will keep the usual racist / misogynistic / homophobic idiots on YouTube and elsewhere busy for years. And I’m not looking forward to that kind of stuff rearing its ugly head here as well.
I checked her personal YouTube page hoping for some BTS Star Trek stuff, and the only thing she's posted in the last 5 years was this update posted last month as to why she's currently living in Costa Rica. Apparently she and her girlfriend lost everything they owned in the Altadena fire a few months back.
I will say that a female Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrid strikes me as improbable, but the last time I checked, hating something just because it's improbable is a particularly silly form of bigotry.
I doubt that the Founders created the Jem'Hadar out of whole cloth. There was almost certainly a natural form of the species, reproducing by natural means (albeit not necessarily sexual; there's a throwaway line in some fairly old ST novel, as I recall, declaring that some never-referenced-again character was "budding"), deriving sustenance by the quaint, old-fashioned process known as "eating," and not dependent upon an external source of ketracel white.
I doubt that the Founders created the Jem'Hadar out of whole cloth. There was almost certainly a natural form of the species, reproducing by natural means (albeit not necessarily sexual; there's a throwaway line in some fairly old ST novel, as I recall, declaring that some never-referenced-again character was "budding"), deriving sustenance by the quaint, old-fashioned process known as "eating," and not dependent upon an external source of ketracel white.
I like her already.
Well, until now that Trek BBS was spared this so called "debate" you speak of.
I have no idea who or what "That Star Wars Girl" is but Nerdrotic, Midnight's Edge and the aforementioned Major Grin are all blowhards who aren't worth listening to.
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