XPost: alt.non.racism, alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv   
   From: droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com   
      
   For your reference, records indicate that   
   Obveeus  wrote:   
      
   > The original series had a black female on the bridge.  Also an Asian   
   > male.  Also a Russian male.  Also an alien.  There was only one good old   
   > white boy there.  Now, the new show has a 'diverse cast' and many people   
   > here are complaining about it...I guess just because they can't handle   
   > the word diverse?  maybe it is because the good old white boy isn't the   
   > 'leader'?  Maybe it is because there will be a gay character?  The whole   
   > point of the original series was to espouse diversity and half a century   
   > later it still can't happened without people asking 'why'.   
      
   No, the question some of us are asking is simply: *How* does this make   
   sense in the Star Trek universe?  I’m not being sold on an interesting   
   new addition to the franchise, I’m being sold on an unrelated agenda   
   *that I’ve already purchased in my present day reality*.  I mean, hell,   
   I worked jobs 15 years ago with more gay people than have ever gotten   
   major screen time on a Trek show.  I never really cared for one damn   
   second about their “diversity”, I just cared that they were doing an   
   awesome job.  It remains to be seen (by those who are going to bother   
   to pay to see it) whether or not this new Trek is anywhere close to   
   watchable, or if it is just another retread of an agenda that could   
   have actually been *better* done as a cheaper Reality TV show.   
      
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