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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 26 2016, @02:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-most-of-the-aliens-are-human-looking dept.

TVGuide says:

Star Trek: Discovery is an agonizing almost year away, but here's something to help hold us over until May 2017: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh has been cast as a Starfleet Captain, Deadline reports.

Though Discovery's main character will have a female "Number One" serving as lieutenant commander on the Federation starship Discovery -- don't look for Yeoh on that vessel. She'll reportedly play Han Bo, leader of the ship Shenzhou. That means the lead character, rumored to be another non-white female, may be second in command.

That wouldn't be the first time the main character isn't a commanding officer on Star Trek -- Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, rose through the ranks after starting as commander -- but then, this iteration of the franchise is expected to explore all kinds of new dimensions, including having at least one gay character.

Do Trekkies approve?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:22AM (#433129)

    I have to admit, perhaps as a confession of my sins, that I earnestly enjoyed Enterprise. I liked that show. I didn't like everything, but I felt more in touch with its characters than I did with those of Voyager. I admired some of the cinematography. I thought the ship was cool, especially in its limitations as opposed to the nearly flawless Voyager that ended up perfectly repaired after catastrophic every week: Enterprise limped into its finale because it had been brutalized, while Voyager got new Borg-proof armor while still pretending to have problems with its replicators ("on our energy budget we can afford holodecks but not food replicators"). I liked Scott Bakula. I liked the crew of the Enterprise in ways that I never liked Voyager.

    Why am I so wrong?

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:48PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:48PM (#433307) Homepage Journal

    I never could get past that gawdoffal theme song; nails on a blackboard.

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    • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Sunday November 27 2016, @12:31AM

      by jimshatt (978) on Sunday November 27 2016, @12:31AM (#433468) Journal
      Haha, yeah, that was also the reason I never watched the show. I was pretty stoked when the first episode was on TV, but I just turned it off when the theme song was on and never returned. Well, until a year ago when I binge-watched all four seasons. But at least then I could skip the theme song.
      Gotta agree with GP, though, I did like the show much more than I expected.
  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:48PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:48PM (#433454) Journal

    The show itself had some good points in my opinion, many of which you touched on. I've just never liked Scott Bakula for some reason, even in Quantum Leap which I also thought was a good premise for a show and had potential but I could not get over Bakula. I can't stand NCIS:NO either, his bad Cajun accent or his wooden acting style.

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