Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Micah Sweet]

That is an interesting explanation but I am not sure I completely buy it. Self-awareness is logical, and these guys displayed none. They also failed to expressed the idea that cosplaying as another species when one had a choice not to was wrong, regardless of the abilities conferred, especially in light of Federation laws against genetic modification. This was highly illogical.

Cosplaying is wrong?

 

[Kaodi]

Cosplaying is wrong?

If it is cultural appropriation or blackface, yeah.

 

[Micah Sweet]

If it is cultural appropriation or blackface, yeah.

So no one should ever dress up as an anime character unless they are part of the culture from which that anime originates, for example? That's...quite a take.

 

[Kaodi]

So no one should ever dress up as an anime character unless they are part of the culture from which that anime originates, for example? That's...quite a take.

I need to go to bed so I will try to say this briefly: wearing a facsimile of an Indigenous war bonnet (a feathered headdress) is cultural appropriation. Wearing moccasins is not. Dressing up as an anime character is way more like wearing moccasins than wearing a war bonnet. This Vulcan thing though is more like blackface.

 

[Maxperson]

Check out Anson Mount's Instagram for his explanation of the hair.

Would you quote it here for us Instagram impaired folk? I have yet to really go beyond Facebook.

 

[Ryujin]

Would you quote it here for us Instagram impaired folk? I have yet to really go beyond Facebook.

"No, no, no. We're not looking for a Vulcan hairstyle. We're looking for Pike's Vulcan hairstyle. They wanted to go with this kind of straight down, straight across thing. I was like, 'What if it goes straight up, and then straight back, like it's a perfect platform?'"

There's a clip of them doing the corridor walk and they actually played "Sabotage" during the recording of that scene, on set.