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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Not Diverse Enough? (Patreon)

Published:
2020-05-20 20:01:00
Imported:
2022-07

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Star Trek fans are all excited about the new Captain Pike show that was  just announced, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With Anson Mount's  portrayal of the original captain of the USS Enterprise capturing the  hearts of Trekkies everywhere in season 2 of Star Trek Discovery, along  with Ethan Peck's Spock and Rebecca Romijn's Una aka Number One, Strange  New Worlds may be the most exciting upcoming project for the franchise.  Yet, one of the major criticisms levied at the show so far has been that  it's three leads, Peck, Mount, and Romijn, are all white, which stands  out against Star Trek's explicit history and intention of including a  diversity of identities in it's cast of characters. With minorities and  identities becoming a center of heated debate within the Trek fandom and  many geek shows today, this criticism feels even more contentious then  ever before in Star Trek's history. So let's dive into the issue and see  if there's an answer to be found to the question, is Star Trek: Strange  New World's not diverse enough?

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Not Diverse Enough?

Star Trek fans are all excited about the new Captain Pike show that was just announced, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With Anson Mount's portrayal of the original captain of the USS Enterprise capturing the hearts of Trekkies everywhere in season 2 of Star Trek Discovery, along with Ethan Peck's Spock and Rebecca Romijn's Una aka Number One, Strange New Worlds may be the most exciting upcoming project for the franchise. Yet, one of the major criticisms levied at the show so far has been that it's three leads, Peck, Mount, and Romijn, are all white, which stands out against Star Trek's explicit history and intention of including a diversity of identities in it's cast of characters. With minorities and identities becoming a center of heated debate within the Trek fandom and many geek shows today, this criticism feels even more contentious then ever before in Star Trek's history. So let's dive into the issue and see if there's an answer to be found to the question, is Star Trek: Strange New World's not diverse enough? ✔ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jessiegender ✔ PayPal: https://paypal.me/jessiegender ✔ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessiegender/ ✔ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessiegender ✔ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessie.gender1/

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Anonymous

we have yet to see who else will be on the bridge...

Jessie Earl
>>37251109

For sure, and I even talk about that in the vid. I trust current Trek folks with handling it right. But I saw this idea crop up a few times in some discussions, so I figured it's worth talking about

Anonymous

Thank you SO MUCH for this video because I have similar sentiments. I must be honest here, I am WAY MORE interested in the hopefully still coming up Section 31 Show featuring Georgiou, a woman of color over 50. Also I find the whole philosophical Ideas behind this imperfect secret organization trying to protect a utopian society against dystopian influences so damned right for our times. Because look how destructive forces try to erode progressive politics and rights, privileges marginalized people fought for decades or centuries. Also, all-female show-runners that is so not common still nowadays. _ ON THE OTHER HAND I am glad for any type of show that portrays a utopian vision, Ideas and solutions that go beyond drab and grim stories I am personally sick of. Also Pike, even tough I personally find him very bland, find him very improtant as a representation of a white male captain that LISTENS and as you have previously said, leads without ego. (For me Pike is not heterosexual but that is just me, just watch Saints of Imperfection. I would love to have maybe that part of Pike that was very subtly teased maybe shown. A Bisexual white male captain would be much more interesting. Especially when it comes to bisexual male visibility.) Anyway I find it also something one cannot have a direct answer for but so happy to see you talk about that. Amazing job.

Anonymous

Hey Jessie, my first thoughts here are that we could be jumping the gun on this discussion. We don't know who the other actors and characters will be in this latest version of ST.

Anonymous

Personally I'm not going to pursue this line of critique until I see the show or perhaps a trailer and some actor interviews.

Anonymous

i think this is worth talking about if it makes you wonder or worry.

Anonymous

there is one thing that i do take very strenuous issue with in the talk, and it is a very minor but important thing that i think may need to be corrected. It is part of Gene Roddenberry's star trek lore that NBC didn't want number 1. herb solo and bob justman in "nside Star Trek: The Real Story" stated that NBS didn't object to the character, only to the fact that Micheal Barrett was playing the character. and the only reason for that objection was because Gene was having an affair with her while still married. and they didn't even not like the actress, it was the very troubling relationship that caused the objection. but Gene had to tell his girlfriend something and "those bad suits" is a believable enough trope. And the reason that we so easily accept that casual bigotry is because most of the time it is true. and i feel that in the few instances where "the suits" did do a good thing it needs to be pointed out. sorry about speaking on this - but it is a particular part the the mythos that i think really needs to be looked at.