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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x04 - "Forget Me Not"

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I've read a few reviews complaining that discovery has turned into a bit of a chick flick.

The lack of a straight (human) male main character in this particular episode doesn't help.

I wish for a second that people who had issues with the lack of a straight human male character in an episode or a series could experience a smidgen of what it might be like to watch a show or an episode where there are either no characters who are women, people of color or LGBTQIA+, or where those characters were either marginalized or token.

Well Kirk hit on or slept with every woman he came across so they would have been real long episodes if we had to wait for him to get through all the men

I'm compelled to point out that the stereotype of Kirk as a horndog is pretty well exaggerated. And who says he would have to go through all the women first?
 
As someone who has went through a lot of trauma this episode hit me hard. It was difficult to watch and also honest. It was very hard not to break down.
I do like how they chose one of the more outwardly tough characters in Detmer to highlight the issue. Admittedly, I have not been through the type of trauma being discussed here, but I thought it was a good idea to show that it could affect anyone.

I also liked it how they are showing us that the warning signs may not be immediately obvious. I'm thinking back to the scenes (in episode 2 maybe?) on the bridge when Detmer was questioning Saru's orders. At the time it did seem strange, but I didn't think it was PTSD.
 
I do hope they are careful with Detmer and don't just make this a
"hotshot risk taking daredevil pilot/driver/barman loses his friend and his mojo and has to quickly regain it with the help of a good woman in time for the big battle/race/busy Saturday night shift" young Tom Cruise style story
 
I do like how they chose one of the more outwardly tough characters in Detmer to highlight the issue. Admittedly, I have not been through the type of trauma being discussed here, but I thought it was a good idea to show that it could affect anyone.

I also liked it how they are showing us that the warning signs may not be immediately obvious. I'm thinking back to the scenes (in episode 2 maybe?) on the bridge when Detmer was questioning Saru's orders. At the time it did seem strange, but I didn't think it was PTSD.

Not just Detmer, the entire crews Trauma plus Adira in the pool, and the admission that they're all not ok, and won't easily be OK.
 
I've read a few reviews complaining that discovery has turned into a bit of a chick flick.

The lack of a straight (human) male main character in this particular episode doesn't help.
All those decades when straight, white males dominated TV/movie characters must have been such a burden to watch....
 
I rather enjoyed this episode (just saw it tonight). I wonder about the presence of Gray though.
 
And yet us Asians rarely ever get Main Billing or are the Star of our own TV shows in the US.

Heck, Blacks, Latinos, LGBTQAI+ all get front billing over us Asian Americans.

Heck, we haven't even had a Asian American Captain as the head of a Trek TV show.

Michelle Yeoh was the closest we got, but they turned her into the Terran Empreror instead.

And don't forget Hollywood and the lack German Representation or many parts of Europe to be portrayed in StarFleet as lead characters.

We've had more Americans & Canadians on the show, but no Australians or New Zealanders.

Heck, what about Arabic Characters? Indian Characters, Mongolians?

There are entire Ethnicities on Earth that aren't represented what so ever in Trek or on TV.
 
Am I right in thinking the closest we got here were 2 English guys.
If you're talking about UK/British representation?

Scotty was supposed to be from Scottland.
JLP = French, but portrayed by a British Actor
Malcom = Reed, portrayed by a British Actor

No Irish Character, No Welsh Characters

No truly French Actors and lack of EU representation.
 
If you're talking about UK/British representation?

Scotty was supposed to be from Scottland.
JLP = French, but portrayed by a British Actor
Malcom = Reed, portrayed by a British Actor

No Irish Character, No Welsh Characters

No truly French Actors and lack of EU representation.

No I meant that the closest we got to Indian or Arabic were Bashir who is a British Indian character played by an Arabic actor and Clem Fandango/Vok who is a British/Asian/secret klingon played by a British Asian actor.

Also Reed was an English character as well as actor
Crusher was from fantasy Scotland planet and La Sirenas holograms covered all the bases
 
I think La Sirena's Holograms were hilarious and gave the actor alot of fun material to work with =D

Plus, with their Han Solo Archetypes, they gotta make him go shirt-less at some point to appeal to the numerous fans male & female fans.

Remember Booker went shirt-less and that's some real fan service for male & female fans too!
 
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