I think you're confusing cause and effect; the symptom and the disease.
I am not interested in a conversation in which you repeatedly treat me like a person who has not bothered to examine their own position.
I think you're confusing cause and effect; the symptom and the disease.
I don't know, but I've always wondered . . . . if there was ever a fear of casting POC as aliens and generating a backlash from minority groups. I'm not saying there would have been a backlash, just wondering if the casting directors had that worry . . . .
I heard (but have not seen direct examples) of Armin Shimmerman having to have some... delicate conversations about being a Jewish actor playing a greedy alien.
I am not interested in a conversation in which you repeatedly treat me like a person who has not bothered to examine their own position.
No, I did get that. But I was replying to another comment to say that Picard did not go to the planet to hire the kid nor did he hire him due to the kid’s devotion to him.You may have missed some of the subtext. That's the reason that Picard gave to Raffi. It may even be what he was telling himself. But it was pretty clear that one of the major reasons he went back there was because he'd essentially abandoned a young boy who he'd befriended, and was looking for closure.
Actor Jeffrey Combs Responds To Fan Clamor For Him To Play Dr. Boyce On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’
Trekkies are already doing their own fantasy casting for the new series.trekmovie.com
I would love for Jeffery Combs to be a regular.
Yeah, when fans started crying about the evil Federation in both ST: Discovery and ST: Picard, my thought was, "Have you ever watched Next Gen or DS9?!?!"
I just finished a Next Gen re-watch, and every time somebody showed up in an admiral's uniform I got suspicious they were corrupt, incompetent, uncaring about civilians, or at least big ol' jerks.
I think a major difference is that in Next Gen, the corrupt admiral was gone and dealt with by the episode's end. In new-Trek, they remain foils and antagonists for an entire season!
That's a common narrative convention of Star Trek: the captain's chair is where a person can really make a difference, and higher-ups are politicians and bureaucrats that needs to be reminded the values Star Fleet uphold.
Also, a stronger faster person with enough training absolutely can destroy someone with a gun as long as they start within quick sprinting difference.Umm, going with hand to hand weapons isn't really out of place in Star Trek is it? I mean, Klingons go in with knives and bat-leths (or however you spell that) pretty much every episode that features Klingons. Granted, fair enough, Romulan ninja is a bit out there, but, not really any further out there than most of the ideas.
I gotta echo the sentiment of "that's what you find out of place?"