Star Trek: Diversity

[Amasov]

I'm just interested in having rich and compelling characters regardless of their backgrounds or skin color.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

They brought back some agony booths from the Mirror Universe. There's a special compartment below decks where all the straight white men are being perpetually tortured in them.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm just interested in having rich and compelling characters regardless of their backgrounds or skin color.

Indeed. I was taught that skin color doesn't matter. Guess that's old fashion now.

 

[Amasov]

They brought back some agony booths from the Mirror Universe. There's a special compartment below decks where all the straight white men are being perpetually tortured in them.

This thread is an agony booth.

 

[Tuskin38]

Just started watching Season 4 and noticed lack of white straight male characters (in a meaningful bridge crew role). Now, these migh pop-up later on (as I said, I just started watching the season) so apologies in advance if actually a mute point.

Now, I'm all for diversity and have been a Trek fan since childhood and I fully support having people of diverse backgrounds, sexual orientations etc. I have a feeling though that this woke-diversity thing went a whee bit too far at the expense of the above referenced population/type.

I now this is a sensitive subject and it's kinda hard to go about it without offending someone, but it's really too apearent to be just completely ignored.

Just as it was wrong to (in the past) ignore and underrepresent minorities in tv shows, we shouldn't be ok with pushing the majority population to the margins to make room for other people. Diversity, in my view, should reflect the actual percentage of groups in the society. It shouldn't be about revenge or "getting even" at the majority as it would kind of make it a reverse racism of sorts, wouldn't it?

What do you guys think?

There is nothing wrong with the diversity as it is portrayed in any of the new Trek shows.

 

[Nerys Myk]

William Shatner was a Canadian that became a US Citizen later on.

I don't think Bill ever became a US citizen. He's still Canadian.

What about the first European Captain?

France and Great Britain aren't in Europe?

 

[fireproof78]

France and Great Britain aren't in Europe?

I just used Google Maps. According to their they are not and then told me to kayak across the Atlantic Ocean.

I trust this makes sense.

 

[cultcross]

I'm all for diversity and have been a Trek fan since childhood and I fully support having people of diverse backgrounds, sexual orientations etc.

And I'm all for threads being open for replies, but yet here we are.