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   From: mvp@web1.calweb.com   
      
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   BTR1701   wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   > Your Name  wrote:   
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   >>     It remains to be seen whether Burnham's African-American   
   >>     identity will be mined for storytelling purposes. "Discovery"   
   >>     hesitantly brings it up once, before quickly dropping it. It would   
   >>     be intriguing - and timely - if "Discovery" explored that aspect   
   >>     of Burnham's experience now and then, instead of assuming, as   
   >>     "Trek" so often blithely has, that in the future humans will live   
   >>     in a post-racial society.   
   >   
   >It's hard to get hung up on something as minor as skin color when the   
   >crewman sitting next to you is a 5-foot tall insect.   
      
   Yeah.   
      
   I think that Variety reviewer made a mistake there.  The   
   Captain's "You of all people should know better" more likely   
   referred to Burnham's growing up as a human on Vulcan.  If   
   they're keeping some of the stuff from "Enterprise" (oh, I hope   
   not!) the Vulcans just don't like the smell of humans, among   
   other things.  She probably experienced prejudice that is,   
   perhaps, very rare on Earth.   
      
   Meh.  Saw the first hour, not going near any special $$$/month   
   CBS thing unless this Trek is ... oh, at least as good as "The   
   Expanse", and it sure isn't that.   
      
   It looks like maybe (I hope I hope!) they are going to   
   de-canonicalize the whole idiotic "Great Klingon   
   Transmogrification" thing.  As Roddenberry said, Klingons always   
   looked like that, even in TOS; they just didn't have the budget   
   for it back in the 60s. I like that the makeup is more than just   
   forehead bumps, or a snapping turtle shell on the forehead, but   
   I think this may obscure the actors' faces a bit too much.   
      
   Too much of the first hour just makes no sense, and the captain   
   and Burnham tossing the Stupid Ball back and forth.   
      
   Burnham has (heh) burned all possible bridges in respect to   
   remaining in Star Fleet outside of a brig or Space Leavenworth.   
   But they are, of course, going to ignore that.   
      
   I did like the intro bit; this isn't Picard's rigidly amoral   
   version of the Prime Directive; it's Kirk's more flexible,   
   and more human, version.   
      
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