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   On 2017-09-27 00:08:59 +0000, Jim G. said:   
   > BTR1701 sent the following on 09/26/2017 at 02:44 PM:   
   >> Jim G.  wrote:   
   >>> BTR1701 sent the following on 09/26/2017 at 02:30 AM:   
   >>>> In article ,   
   >>>> Your Name  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 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, that would bug me. For a while, at least.   
   >>   
   >> I wonder if placing a can of Raid conspicuously on your console when you   
   >> sit down for your shift would be considered a hate crime?   
   >   
   > I'd buy a bunch of the biggest glue strips I could find.   
      
   Andromeda had an insect pilot years ago, one of the Than species.  :-)   
      
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