No? Looking it up, she doesn't even hold a political office anymore. And when she did it was just a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives. She's pretty much as minor of a political figure as you can get.
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This is false. @Ometiklan already pointed out that she has 40% name recognition in the U.S. Her race for Georgia Governor, and her subsequent leadership in mobilizing the black vote and fighting against racist voter suppression laws, have given her significant influence and fame. She is far from "as minor of a political figure as you can get."
Stacy Abrams helped defeat the orangutan in normally red Georgia and she's a Star Trek fan. What's not to like?
Yet she's still in the public eye and got to be on Trek. When the Mayor of Pipsqueak, Minnesota does the same let us know.
But she's divisive. She rallied to defund the police. Just let robbers and killers go free.
Second, her appearance was bad enough, but the giddy love fest on THE READY ROOM from Wheaton and Paradise was ridiculous.
I mean, I could go on about the ways in which Star Trek: Discovery's overt text already embodies progressive values, but that's not really what this is about. What this is about is, there was subtext you didn't recognize and you want to paint it as bad writing. Which it is not. You just didn't pick up on subtext and don't like the idea that important meanings to a text are not always overtly pointed to by the text.
I would highly advise you to take an English class to learn how to get better at recognizing subtext.
I have no idea what "covering" here means, but subtext is subtext. Layers of meaning can be added by things like a cameo. Tom Baker's cameo at the end of "The Day of the Doctor" adds a lot more meaning to the episode if you know him and his history than if you don't.
And the cameos by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson at the end of the 2005 Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds.
So what? We should be divided from people with harmful values. When TOS advocated for racial equality, that was divisive. When DS9 featured a same-sex love story, that was divisive. "Divisiveness" is not a bad thing.
This is absolutely false. I wish she supported the movement to defund American police departments, but she does not.
Perhaps the values for which Star Trek: Discovery advocates are fundamentally incompatible with your values and you should consider watching a different show and joining a different fandom.
Don't think it matters if she is divisive or not. I remember reading about her during the election and thought she was a legend but I still don't want these types of cameo.
DS9 is the only series that could have maybe done nuanced episode on voter supression. You're kidding yourself if you the think that TOS which had a sledgehammer race relations episode, TNG which had a hamfisted Lgbti episode that basically supported conversion therapy and voyager which had to resort to breasts and guest appearances by the rock and Jason Alexander would have been able to provide a well crafted story about voting rights
I would disagree with you there except for Voyager which I always thought was very light on the politics.
VOY literally had an episode where Seven of Nine accuses a dude of doing a sci-fi version of raping her and the guy kills himself before they realize her memory was false. The entire thesis of the episode was that you should err on the side of being men didn't rape women first. Bryan Fuller has talked about how one of the producers on that episode even talked in the writers' room about how he got angry at women who said that you should err on the side of believing women. VOY was not light on the politics -- its politics was just more regressive.
The shows don't film at the same studio space. They're like 20 minutes away IIRC. Which would probably be fine in a pre-Covid era.
Though they could drive the set pieces to where SNW is filming, but I find that unlikely.
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