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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?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @09:30AM
Star Trek: Diversity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @10:31AM
And still no Tellarite women.
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Saturday November 26 2016, @12:42PM
Because de longer you vatch it, diverse it gets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:56PM
*groans*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:58PM
Uh yeah, what's your point?
Have you never watched an episode of star trek before?
You know, the show with the first interracial kiss on tv?
The one with a russian, a scottsman, a japanese guy and a black woman all in the supporting cast?
Star Trek TOS was the original SJW show. Diversity has always been the central theme.
If you love Star Trek and hate SJWs you really missed the point.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:16PM
The difference is they rarely beat you over the head with diversity messages. They beat you over the head with lots of simplistic morality messages for every planet they visited. I never saw it as a big deal the way they did it because it just made common sense. The earth was treated as a whole, so it made sense there would be Russians, etc. on the crew.
If the new show follows current recipes, the characters will be *too* diverse. They will go out of their way to cram in as many different minorities as they can, then they will have all sorts of stories on that. You know there will be a "gay" story or two.
Oh, and that "first interracial kiss" thing was way overblown, and much of that overblown-ness was done after the fact. Very little deal was made of it at the time, and it wasn't until much later upon looking back on the series was it inflated with everything else about the show (did you know we probably wouldn't even have science or a workable society today if it wasn't for all that scientist inspiring and technological predicting the show did?).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @08:47PM
>The difference is they rarely beat you over the head with diversity messages.
damn right, its sickening.