Lower Decks is, for my money, one of TNG's finest moments. Changing up the scenery like that can really create some exciting new stories. That's what I'm hoping for with DSC.
Sonequa Martin-Green is Your DSC Star
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Yes, they said so. They wanted someone with a lower rank. Although if she really plays Number One, so the first officer, it won't really be much of a change. When they announced, that they wanted to tell stories from a different perspective than usual, I imagined someone lower in the ranking order.
"if"?
"OMG! Why don't we have a straight white guy for a Captain as the lead?"
"OMG! Sure, they cast a woman of color as the lead, but she's NOT THE CAPTAIN!"
Geeze, one way or the other, people will complain!
"OMG! Sure, they cast a woman of color as the lead, but she's NOT THE CAPTAIN!"
Geeze, one way or the other, people will complain!
To be fair, we don't yet know who the captain of the Discovery will be. The captain very well could be a woman or person of color. I'll be disappointed if they cast a straight white man as captain, but we don't know who it is yet.
EDIT: My running theory for now is that the captain in season 1 will be, well, let's say a bit of a redshirt. I think Martin-Green's Number One will be captain by season 2. Just a theory though.
They have already cast a non-white woman as an admiral though, who will be the superior of whoever will be the captain. That counts also for something.
They have? Who?
Sorry, was wrong. Yeoh "only" plays another Captain. Although it wouldn't surprise me, if we will see a female non-white Admiral in the series nevertheless, just played by someone else. We really don't know so many characters yet.
What's the life expectancy of a Denobulan?
Optimism makes them nearly immortal.
Then those "fans" are idiots and we shouldn't be paying them any attention.
They're trying to break the mold the latter Trek series, particularly Voyager, especially Enterprise, where the main cast is the ship's senior staff and that rather than creating a show about characters you want to tell stories about, they were only filling the job slots of the ship's crew, Captain, XO, pilot, engineer, security officer, doctor, and on. With Discovery, they actually are going to be selecting characters they want to tell stories about rather than just staffing a starship. This is a good thing, and something I've long felt Star Trek was in serious need to do.
The character information leaked in the summer indicated there would be two Admirals in the show, at least one of them is almost guaranteed to be a woman.
Couple hundred years, IIRC. At least I recall Phlox talking about a grandparent who was alive two hundred years earlier, rather long time for a grandparent.
Then I have done my job!
Yeah, that's not going to happen (that "living hell from the fans" nonsense, I mean.)
Wasn't that a scene from Voyager's Tsunkatse?
That's a nonsense way of keeping score. There's no meaningful achievement or progress in casting a character of a particular rank. What matters is the significance of the part to the production. The lead is the lead is the lead.
Walter Koenig told the story of embarrassing himself with his excitement upon learning that Chekov would be a lieutenant commander in ST:TMP, since the fictional rank had nothing to do with his importance to the story. He put it succinctly: "I've seen lots of movies where the leads played Army privates and the generals were played by extras."
The first thing I thought of when I heard the concept was M*A*S*H, where the commander was a supporting character. Of course, the same is true of almost every cop show in history, where the heroes have to report back to a captain.
