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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
   On 9/27/2017 12:36 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   ~consul  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 9/26/2017 8:01 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   >>> BTR1701   wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>   From what we have seen of the other alien planets a part of the   
   >> Federation, or most other alien culture is how species/culturally pure   
   >> they are. On Vulcan, Qo'noS, Romulus, etc, most of the time we see   
   >> singular, native species wandering around. Earth, however, always had   
   >> a good smattering of non-human folks in the crowds   
   >   
   > As Riker said, Earth doesn't enslave it's food animals.   
      
   The OKJA style superpigs were extinct by then.   
      
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