Star Trek Discovery's First Trailer Brings a New Ship, New Characters, and Old Conflicts (cbs.com)

nyquil superstar writes: Hey all, the Star Trek: Discovery trailer is out. Looks entertaining! From a report via Vox: "The trailer features Sonequa Martin-Green, fresh from The Walking Dead, as Michael Burnham, a first officer promoted unexpectedly to the position of captain by her mentor, Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). Set 10 years before the original Star Trek series (and 90 years after the franchise's only other prequel, Star Trek: Enterprise), the new series follows the starship Discovery as Burnham learns to become a captain. But she soon finds her abilities tested by a host of challenges that will be familiar to all lovers of the classic sci-fi universe: new worlds to explore and alliances to forge, hostile Klingons, and the difficulty of adhering to the Federation's peacekeeping mission."

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The Quota Show

[Baron_Yam]

Where the show was designed by the actor's race and sex instead of a plot and a casting call. Because blatant sexism and racism is good so long as it isn't favouring white males!

Then there's the whole problem with it being restricted to a very limited new streaming service.

Pass.

Re:The Quota Show

[Rockoon]

In ST:TOS time it was unthinkable, and hence a real honest to goodness social statement.

Today its just another day at the office, and hence is just a pretend social statement supported by shallow empty people that think that their shallow empty platitudes make them progressive.

We were taught that motives matter by people like you. Now you dont want us to care about motive, and how convenient that is. This not only makes Star Trek lesser in our eyes... it makes You lesser in our eyes too.

You can be a freak with a rare "sexuality" .. we dont give a damn .. but you can't be a freak with a rare "sexuality" that is also a fucking hypocrite.

We don't like hypocrites. Our dislike of you has to do with who you are, not what you did to yourself.

Yet more "men with vaginas"

[DeplorableCodeMonkey]

The more Hollywood pushes this view of feminism, the more their female characters resemble male characters who just happen to be played by a woman. Her first name is Michael, not Michelle. Think about that for a moment. That is either laziness or a subconscious slip about what they were really thinking.

The problem for Hollywood is that any sort of "fierce, ass-kicking woman" who resembles a real world woman is going to look very "right wing." She is going to love weapons. She is going to mock women who think they can go toe-to-toe with a man in hand to hand combat while she cleans her knives and guns. She's going to call her 0.40 handguns "a girl's best friend." She will not hesitate to bring a knife or a gun to a fist fight with a man, and probably other women too if they're the dangerous villain. (Because in the real world, women tend to have nothing analogous to the male view of a fair fighting, as they often see a physical fight as one where winning is the only thing that matters; nothing wrong with that, as their view of fighting often actually is more realistic than the view held by many men)