Hi. You must be new. Zack has been writing and talking about Star Trek since two commenting systems ago. You really shouldn’t say he maybe has watched a few episodes.

English has a long (at least back to the 1500s) history of singular “they” where the antecedent is unknown or not important. In this case it’s clearly just not giving a fuck enough to check the author’s name. Otherwise, I’m with you. Zack’s Star Trek reviews are what originally made me (hastily; as the username shows)…

I think recent history with Star Trek/Wars has shown a strong lack of flexibility in nerd culture. The need for fans to be serviced is high. Star Trek still has be set on a well lit rec room and Star Wars needs to not only have an all white cast but the same cast, against even the confines of mortality.

Philippa Georgiou, and to a smaller extent this week, Tilly, belies your point about women.

Yes, he made an error regarding the Defiant. That has been addressed multiple times, and most likely he just forgot.

He didn’t make an “error” about whether the ship had multiple doctors. He said he was shocked, but prescribing “error” to an emotion is just silly.

As for the brig, he was simply making an observation.…

You forgot about Bashir and O’Brien. O’Brien (Colm Meaney) is Irish and Bashir is presumably from the Middle East. (Siddig El Fadil is Sudanese.) Also, although Robert Beltran was born in Bakersfield, Chakotay’s tribe was from somewhere in Central America.

But yeah, Star Trek’s cast has always been overwhelmingly…

According to Memory Alpha, WWIII in Star Trek took the lives of 600,000,000 people. That’s not nearly enough to account for the lack of ethnic representation we see throughout the series.

I live in America, and I understand that it would probably be challenging to cast Star Trek to accurately reflect world…

What are you talking about? Zack has watched and reviewed over 400 episodes, starting with Kirk and going all the way to Ben Sisko. He is definitely a fan.

His reviews of Discovery are a little more negative than my impressions, but that doesn’t invalidate his opinions. And your suggestion that he’s not a fan because…

To be clear, Discovery did not *have to* have a gay couple or a black female lead. These were choices the showrunners made, not requirements handed down to them by CBS or Netflix executives.

I almost have to wonder, are there people out there that find The Closer offensive because the main character was a woman? Was…

It’s incredible how these assholes will accept white males on any show in any role with no problems at all, but any deviation from that any they get *real* concerned about “cliches” and “justifying” the casting choice and downright philosophical about “do we need” to cast a black person, etc?

Fuck you.

“Is it even possible to be insensitive to one of the richest most influential women on the planet?”

“I like that she takes roles that are important to her, but it still feels weird seeing her pop up in what is basically a lark for her.”

Let’s get real here for a moment. The UFP of supposed to be a kind of worldwide government that represents all of earth. White people only represent about 15% of the earth’s population, roughly one billion or so, between the US and Europe. (Canada and Australia’s populations are too small to be statistically…

Nobody has a problem with you being off topic. People have a problem with you being insensitive.

I’m just saying, a black woman makes an impassioned, powerful speech about overcoming oppression and the terrible toll it’s taken on its victims, on a night that was (ostensibly) about resistance to sexual assault and harassment, and your only comment is to bash her acting? Learn to read the room, bub.

I will bet you all one thousand quatloos that Lorca is Mirror Lorca.

I can’t really tell by the tone of your comment if you’re actually triggered by the diverse cast or not. Most ensemble casts these days do tend to be rather diverse.

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Why did Kirk have to kiss Uhura? This is a franchise that has traditionally been about challenging our preconceptions, and pushing our boundaries? The question really should be, why not?

Neither you nor the writer here come off like you have reasonable ideas about the importance of politics to the quality of a show like this one, hth