Popping off the top of my esophagus...

I think Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn is fairly untarnished as well. I never had any problems with him.

I won’t say I’m gung-ho about it, but it does sound more interesting than the adventures of young Han Solo and (presumably) Chewbacca/Lando.

Well, Mark Hamill excels at life.

Does Rebels technically constitute a prequel? Isn’t it more of an aside?

Truman Capote may have been in love with a psychopath, but at least he was a talented writer.

It most certainly does NOT have the fresh taste of butter!

Siddig El Fadil is half English, half Sudanese. But when we met Bashir’s parents on DS9, they were both Middle Eastern. It’s likely that Bashir’s parents emigrated to the United Kingdom, and that’s where Bashir grew up.

Okay, so the official story is that, when Bashir was seven, they moved him off world for genetic…

I remember that guy. Can you imagine the tongue-lashing Worf must have given him when he found out? We all know how well Worf tolerates incompetence.

I did keep watching, and I was going to mention it, but I felt it was better to reply to Honey Harlaquin and listen to a different perspective than my own.

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.…

Possibly. We shall see. :)

That’s too bad. I’m not actually that familiar with the death rate of homosexual characters, so I will defer to your expertise on the matter. I don’t watch a ton of TV, but I have really enjoyed the gay characters on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Young & Hungry (which has a great multi-ethnic supporting cast and a very dull…

No, they specifically said they decided not to have a Mirror Universe Hugh Culber, because they wanted the character to remain morally pure.

That said, they also hinted that we haven’t seen the last of him, so that gives me a little hope.

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…

I think people of color are often killed unnecessarily killed in a lot of different shows. I’m neither gay nor a person of color, so take my opinion with a healthy serving of salt.

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…

Yeah, Kinja comments are really hard to navigate. It’s a terrible way to build a conversation.

But I would agree with you. Culbers wasn’t killed because he was gay or because he was Puerto Rican. He was killed because he discovered something unusual about Tyler and tried to stop him.

Also, I don’t know if I meant to…

I was watching AfterTrek, and apparently one of the writers/showrunners is openly gay. According to him, he killed Culbers because the doctor was intelligent enough to piece together what happened and confronted Culber, and that’s why he died. So I don’t know if I’d call it fridging, because this was, at the very…

It did get mentioned a couple of times. Like the episode that had the evil computer take over.