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"family-friendly," of course, didn't include queer peoplehe was also responsible for shifting the franchise towards a more family-friendly model
Yuuuuup. That's one of the many things the guy ought to be held to task for. I also don't hear many people talk about this either, and I'd love to see someone try and crunch some numbers on it too. But if you ever look at the background characters for any given Star Trek show, just pay attention to the kinds of faces you see. In TOS, Gene made it a point to have diversity walk the hallways of the Enterprise to show an integrated workforce. That ethos was still there in the first season or two of TNG. Once Berman took over though, I can't help but feel like the background characters filling the hallways or inhabiting alien worlds all of a sudden started looking a lot more like 90s Hollywood - e.g. almost exclusively white. I always think back on Jonathan Frakes' director's commentary on Insurrection where he just unprompted starts opining, "Ever notice the casting of this Baku village? How this harmonious, perfect society, everyone in it just happens to look Sweedish? Weird, right?" Star Trek gets a lot of credit for its portrayal of diversity, but the Berman years, at the very least, coasted on that reputation and did a bare minimum to appear diverse when they could have done a lot more."family-friendly," of course, didn't include queer people
First two episodes were good. Not amazing or anything, but the show is fun and comforting. It's been over two years (!!!) since we had new Disco, and a half year since any new Star Trek in general. This Writer's Strike drought friggin' sucks, but it's nice to have something to look forward to every week now for the next few months.Speaking of Treks and queer people, I sure do <3 me some DISCO. First two eps of the final season dropped last night if anyone who cares wasn't paying attention.
I just watched all of these episodes very recently so they're very fresh in my mind. Was waiting on you catching up Kirin to see what you had to say about them though before blabbing on myself. Glad you've enjoyed everything so far. Some quick notes from myself:And then we hit some biggies - Waltz and Far Beyond the Stars. (Which is to say, if you forget titles, the one with Sisko stranded with an increasingly unhinged Dukat, and the one where he's an SF writer in the '60s.) Pretty sure both of those have been discussed to death in Trek circles as I kinda remember them just from osmosis, so I don't know that I have much to add, but yeah. Powerful stuff, with Avery Brooks puttin in some serious work. (Also fun times trying to recognize everyone out of makeup in the latter.)
That episode REALLY felt like it should have been a Bashir joint, but then we don't see him get picked up by Section 31 until later.Oh and I almost forgot we just saw Honor Among Thieves, where O'Brien gets to do a solo *non*-period noir piece, that was pretty good too (even if the setup is a super weird thing for Starfleet to do... sure, let's send the brilliant engineer keeping our most strategically important outpost running on an extremely dangerous undercover mission somewhere entirely else for... reasons.)
The Magnificent Ferengi - was pretty fun as was Who Mourns for Morn? and Honey I Shrunk the Runabout I mean One Little Ship.
Well that's a fun bit of trivia I'd missed.It also has Iggy Pop as the best non-Coombs Vorta.