That would mean more brown people (than what we see today).
We could've had the First Asian Female Captain, but no....
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A diverse cast is the bare minimum. It's not enough to make people like a show. It's just something we expect as a standard.
Any movie or show with just white straight people seems odd, it’s not realistic unless a war crime occurred before the series.
It’s better if it’s a positive role too. Imagine being left handed and every single left handed person you’ve ever seen is evil or killed accidentally using right handed scissors.
Georgiou should definitely have been the lead of the series. I like Sonequa Martin Green and Burnham is a decent-enough character with great moments, but whenever Georgiou (either our universe's or the MU Emperor) is on the screen you are more riveted, both by the characterizations and Michelle Yeoh's portrayals. Sonequa does the best she can with the material she's been given and some of it has been good, but Michelle is by far the better of the two when they're both onscreen.
Seinfeld got ribbed for showing so few black people in New York City but I think Jerry once said that he deserved the criticism for not having more black characters in the series. The pilot was filmed in 1989 and the series ran from 1990-98 during a time when the predominant sitcom paradigm was white leads with an increasing number of strong female characters but not so many mixed race casts and even fewer openly gay and lesbian leads or supporting roles. Were he to make his show now he'd probably have a more ethnically-diverse cast.
Most sitcoms today aren’t much better. They try to include one minority character as a weaker character compared to the others.
Yeah, I knew that already.
Good for you then.
I think that was the original plan with episode 3 being the pilot episode. But then they decided to do the backstory first, that's why spaceship Discovery was not in the first 2 episodes.
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The redressed set shows up in the second half of the season.
It will probably show up again too in some form. They tore down the old sets and they’ll always need another bridge set when another ship shows up. They were always going to need to build another set to avoid using a green screen or redressing the Discovery bridge every time they needed another set.
I'm not touching this race stuff.
Burnham is the main character because of Bryan Fuller.
What I can say is I would have liked to see far more of the Shenzhou and Georgiou as her captain than we did. I am assuming, probably wrongly, that we will see that in the future in flashback form.
Burnham is the main character because of Bryan Fuller.
What I can say is I would have liked to see far more of the Shenzhou and Georgiou as her captain than we did. I am assuming, probably wrongly, that we will see that in the future in flashback form.
I could see them going back in time too. Time travel in a Star Trek series is almost a requirement at some point.
There are a lot of firsts in DSC already, first singular protagonist (who is also a black woman), first openly gay regular character, first on-screen gay romance, first evil captain (who also pretty much turns out to be the season's main antagonist)...
I don't really see this as a major missed opportunity, tbh. Mirror Giorgiu as an antagonist turned antihero offers a lot more storytelling potential than a goodie two shoes by the book CO.
Oh, and there's something cool about having to wait for season two to see who the captain is going to be. Another first for Star Trek.
(Rooting for a Vulcan woman)
I don't really see this as a major missed opportunity, tbh. Mirror Giorgiu as an antagonist turned antihero offers a lot more storytelling potential than a goodie two shoes by the book CO.
Oh, and there's something cool about having to wait for season two to see who the captain is going to be. Another first for Star Trek.
(Rooting for a Vulcan woman)
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It's rather the point of the thread....
The irony that some fans find it strange that a show called Star Trek set into a future where humanity are politically and socially united, where culture diversity is the norm should not reflect that reality. I am glad The Cage was not the standard for Star Trek it was lily white and patriarchal.
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