Posted on 08/11/2016 9:59:59 PM PDT by TBP
To boldly go . . . back to 1995!
Wednesday at a Television Critics Association panel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Bryan Fuller, executive producer of “Star Trek: Discovery” (premiering in January on CBS, then airing on CBS All Access), revealed that a woman will be the new show’s main character.
But this isn’t the typical self-righteous Hollywood back-slappery that launched a thousand Medium.com essays. Nor is it the Girl Power! casting of summer’s “Ghostbusters” flop, nor the newly announced all-female “Ocean’s Eight” caper. “Star Trek” has always done diversity the right way.
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I haven’t really liked the women on Star Trek except Lursa and Bator, the Naughty Klingons.
Kirk and then Sisko were the best. I am sort of odd I guess but I really liked DS9.
Voyager got better over time. TNG sort of became a parody of itself and a bit tedious in my opinion.
Sheesh, this crap has got to stop.
Jerri Ryan wasn’t available? The new captain will,of course,be a Lea!
Planning on firing a few “photon torpedoes”, are you ?? (grin)
Yup, and hoping she’s not a “Clingon”
Wasn't his 2nd in Command Capt. Poncho?
Was watching Judgement at Nuremburg last evening and pointed out to my wife that William Shatner had a large part in the movie which surprised me.
Audio tapes of the Aug. 9 call were released by police Tuesday, CBS station KCBS-TV reports. The 911 officer told Shatner, 68, to get his 40-year-old wife, Nerine, out of the pool, and not to hang up the phone. But the actor hangs up. Dispatcher: "I want you to take her out of the pool right now." Shatner: "She's at the very deep end (unintelligible)."
As a woman, I definitely want strong male leads not female ones. The pro gay, pro woman modern evisceration of males has reached a fever pitch that makes me sick. Bring back the days of the real Captain Kirk, the likes of John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, or even Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) of Stargate fame. Get rid of the horrible new ways of a woman or a gay man being THE ONLY HERO. Just IMHO.
Someone else remembers Mrs. Columbo?
I haven’t read any of he appurtenant novels in the Star Trek universe.
This observation was just based on the interactions I saw repeated throughout the original series.
Subsequent Captains had at times one character or another that would fill one of these roles for a time but only in that original did the constant interplay between Kirk, Spock and McCoy meld the personalities into a firm interdependence that closely resembled the Freudian model.
A purist! I like them ALL (except Enterprise). Original, Next Gen, Deep Space Nine, Voyager.
I won’t watch anything with Scot Spatula in it. He has a fascination with wearing dresses. The guy creeps me out.
Agree. And it’s stupid to take a human and put some plastic on their head or face and call them an alien.
“Klingon” culture is just Shogun-era Japan.
With Kirk, when it came to aliens, if it was female, seduce it, if male, fight it.
Looks like I’m waiting in vain for Star Trek to go where they never have before; An all human, white, male,heterosexual main cast.
I agree with your post 100%.
The “Girl Power” thing is getting women killed in real life, IMO. They watch Hollywood and television, and hearing them say “A woman can do anything a man can do” with no holds barred. Well, physically, they cannot. And when an average woman finds herself being attacked by an average male, they realize they have been sold a bill of goods, and they cannot do everything a man can do.
When we get into real combat with women occupying front-line roles, it is going to get men killed as well. But in the liberal worldview, you have to break eggs to make omelettes, right?
I just saw a commercial for the new “Magnificent Seven” movie, and my first thought was that I was surprised they didn’t remake it with all women. I suppose that is coming, though.
But it isn’t new. I just re-watched the “Aliens” movie, one I have always liked, but they show ALL the women as being tougher than the men in every aspect, including the little girl. And that was back in the eighties. Never mind “GI Jane”.
It is all pandering liberal fantasy, which is fine for Hollywood, but the sad thing is, people buy into it as reality, which is disturbing.
Interesting. I just watched that very same movie again several weeks ago. Very powerful movie, and the themes are timeless. Very relevant to things today.
Enterprise was unwatchable. Here they were, going into deep space for the first time, discovering new civilizations and new species...with all the wonder of ordering a cheeseburger.
It had the potential to be the best, but the writers didn’t understand what to do with it. Instead, it was almost as bad as Deep Space Nine.
I've noticed that in EVERY new show or movie, from cop show to space drama, there is always a sexy early 20 something female who somehow or another is either a super hacker or has apparently 50 years of martial arts experience in 10 disciplines. This woman can only be matched in battle by another woman. If she comes upon a man, he "cheats" with a gun or a clonk on the head when she wasn't looking.
It's been a few years but the opener of the new Hawaii 5-0 TV show has the 78 pound asian chick saunter out of the water after surfing and delivers a potentially fatal head kick to a 6'2" guy who "stole her wave"
On TV recently...a show called Dark Matter, female pilot and female android..both master melee fighters, both 5'2", 120lb or less. The bonus is there is a female "teen"(who is 25 for real) who is the super hacker.
Also on TV, Killjoys, 90lb female super fighter is the captain of the ship. Kicks everyone's ass and doesn't look a day over 21.
It goes on and on. Even in super hero movies...who is the best melee fighter? Black Widow? Harley Quinn? Wonder Woman? The men use brute force...the woman use skill.
It's to the point now, I bring it up every time I see it and it irritates the hell out of my wife "Oh look, the frail little girl beats up the 350lb brute".
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