I just started season 5 and Sisko's ethnicity hasn't come up once the entire series. DS9 writers are truly bigoted for not acknowledging this King's blackness.
That is, no lie, my favorite (out of many awesome) things about Captain Sisko. And really Trek as a whole. The fact that he is black, and in a position of authority is such a non-issue, that it doesn't even usually factor into the plot at all, because people are just people. This isn't even a new to Trek thing for DS9, behold an amazing scene from TOS.
Yeah....you will see "that" episode soon. Its actually extremely good episode though, just know it is partly about Sisko being black.
I guess there is also the holodeck episode where Sisko has sand in his craw over being black, but the show basically tells him to shut the fuck up and stop being a pussy bitch so its pretty good.
I still feel like "that episode" was wholly earned by the DS9 at that point. A nod to how far we've come, and yeah wanking themselves off a little bit over it, but I respect them for waiting until relatively near the end of the series to make it. (It would have probably pissed me off a lot if it had been an episode in one of the early seasons before the show proved itself.) That one particular aspect of "the other episode" can go fuck itself though. Even though the rest of the episode was really good, and as you said Sisko was rightly called out for being a dumbass, it still felt totally out of place coming from him of all people.
That's the interesting part about OG non-movie Kirk, he actually came across as pretty effeminate in some cases, doubted himself often, didn't seem scared to show emotions even when the situation was grim. A lot like the (relatively speaking) young Shatner was at the time. Kirk was a character who seemed flawed but just, and not at all like say, Archer did. But pop culture still has this perception of him as this arrogant dudebro for some reason.
One of my favorite Kirk moments is in The Conscience of the King, when he's reviewing a file on Kodos the Executioner. I remember when I first saw it, I didn't think "Kirk's seen some shit," I thought "Shatner's seen some shit." (Or heard about it, whatever.) I also thought a 1960s audience would pick up on that a lot better than today's audience, because many of them might have seen that look on their fathers' or uncles' faces.
Watch his hands, and watch his face as he's transported back to Tarsus IV:
I recently rewatched Squire of Gothos and there is a similar bit that doesn't work nearly as well as the Abe Lincoln exchange.
The Enterprise is held by the first draft of Q, who believes it is still the 19th Century on Earth (he's 900 light years from Earth, which should mean the episode takes place in the 28th Century, but the "real world" year of the Old Series was never stated until after the fact). He assumes that Uhura is a slave, and instead of correcting what strikes me as a reasonable assumption Kirk goes along with it. I don't get the vibe that it's a deliberate trick on Kirk's part; it really comes across as Kirk being an asshole for no particular reason.
Nope, like I said earlier, I wrote off STD after the bait and switch about the Prime universe (CBS lying to the fans) came out. I have not seen a single episode of that, or Picard, and I have no intention whatsoever of watching Lower Decks because I think Rick and Morty is unfunny trash.
Trek Games - Loved Elite Force, even played around a lot in the modded multiplayer mode. Expansion is fun where you can run around Voyager.
Armada 1 & 2 - Fun if you like Starcraft style games. The 2nd one implemented more 3D into which was.... interesting. I liked it (even if I figured out an auto-win fleet build). Mega-cubes are dumb but awesome.
Birth of the Federation - Just awesome, turn based empire management. Definitely worth the effort to play. Romulans best empire (I'd always invest a lot in spies and have my opponents heavily crippled by the time my ships rolled up.)
Yeah I haven't played anything else in a long while. I'd like to try things like Bridge Command. There for a long time a lot of trek games were as cancer as other tie-in games. I'm still kind of annoyed the Klingon FPS game never worked.
Nope, like I said earlier, I wrote off STD after the bait and switch about the Prime universe (CBS lying to the fans) came out. I have not seen a single episode of that, or Picard, and I have no intention whatsoever of watching Lower Decks because I think Rick and Morty is unfunny trash.
Yes, Burnam has now been retconned into being the most important """""character""""" in Trek, like any good Mary Sue.
She is literally the biggest on the poster; rather pathetic they didn't even use her dyke look that more people know, just for further confusion. Pretty SEXIST of them too, to insinuate a woman has to look feminine to be on a poster!11
This is the shining example of the "love" Kurtzman and company have for Trek. "We love hijacking it."
And Bones was fiercely loyal to his friends! He argued with Spock and Jim almost every episode. But the second they're in danger, it's, "Shut up, Spock, we're rescuing you." And then that badass nod that even Kirk respected. That's a memorable character.
Star Trek Day is just another STD from CBS. Speaking of, they also produced this:
Sorry for not cropping it, all the negative space is in the original and I am lazy.
Like before, Michael Burnhim and Jay Ell are prominent. (Subscribe to CBS All Access!) Not content with a white woman, a black woman, and a black man, they added Worf, Uhura, and that crazy woman who eats Sarus for increased representation and diversity. Worf looks like he really doesn't want to be involved in this. Archer is still missing. At least they gave us a little starship porn in this one. It looks like the Discovery is on fire, which is nice.
Like before, Michael Burnhim and Jay Ell are prominent. (Subscribe to CBS All Access!) Not content with a white woman, a black woman, and a black man, they added Worf, Uhura, and that crazy woman who eats Sarus for increased representation and diversity. Worf looks like he really doesn't want to be involved in this. Archer is still missing. At least they gave us a little starship porn in this one. It looks like the Discovery is on fire, which is nice.
Worf was so ubiquitous in the franchise that he has as much right as anyone to be on there. As far as Uhura goes, at least she was fairly consequential for actual diversity as opposed to lazy CURRENT YEAR bullshit.
It was originally marketed as being a prime universe show, like ENT, TOS, TNG, etc. Not JJverse garbage. There was a huge controversy before STD aired about it.
It was originally marketed as being a prime universe show, like ENT, TOS, TNG, etc. Not JJverse garbage. There was a huge controversy before STD aired about it.
Don't they still insist it's prime universe? The lore and aesthetic of the show are incomprehensible if that's the case but I'm pretty sure they're still telling audiences it's prime.
This is worthy to be exhibited in a museum. It shows us, in perfect detail, the current hierarchy of the oppression olympics. We just need to propperly decipher it.
My suggestion, that is based on size but also on the relative positions of the characters:
Black modern day woman > jew > gay man > humbled white man > white male ally > old timey black woman > regular white woman > black man > Shitlord Shatner.
Wonder where Hispanics are in all this, but I guess Hispanics have been awarded the rank of white folk a short while ago.
Most likely we'll get an updated version next year, when STDs two new abominable snowflake characters enter the shot, so we can add genderloonies to the hierarchy... then again, here's a wild theory: Just assume the hand is from one of them, so they are at the divine heavenly peak of Mount Oppression Olympus.
Stupid as I might be, I watched STD for 2 or 3 episodes, to see if it was as bad as everybody said.
Imagine my shock and horror when I realized that ginger cow was a protagonist.
That's the interesting part about OG non-movie Kirk, he actually came across as pretty effeminate in some cases, doubted himself often, didn't seem scared to show emotions even when the situation was grim. A lot like the (relatively speaking) young Shatner was at the time. Kirk was a character who seemed flawed but just, and not at all like say, Archer did. But pop culture still has this perception of him as this arrogant dudebro for some reason.
Oh god. Yeah. When I watched JJ's shitty rehash, I was furious when they got to the Kobayashi Maru test. NotKirk was just a frat boy with a shit-eating grin, munching on an apple like some jackass in a teen comedy. I waited forever to see Kirk outwit the Simulation by changing the rules and what I got instead was... not good for my blood pressure.
This is what a true fan makes. It has the original Pyke (A great nod to a great actor who died too soon!), it has tribbles, it has The Doctor, it has everything we know and love.
Only one little detail that I would add:
Don't they still insist it's prime universe? The lore and aesthetic of the show are incomprehensible if that's the case but I'm pretty sure they're still telling audiences it's prime.
