Oh man - the STAR TREK thing requires an answer i just don't have time to get into right now. It has to do with what I consider to be lazy writing on a formula combined with a certain kind of racial profiling that wouldn't have been seen as anything but negatively racist had the characters involved been human, and pretty stereotypically cartoonishly visually "human racist" in the way it was constructed.
I have a feeling this is something I'll want to get off my chest by the time the new-old TREK movie comes out this summer, but the time just isn't around.
Something like all the Klingons and the whoseywhats acting a certain way, then? And maybe some aliens have big noses. Stuff like that?
But yeah, you can talk about this when you have the time. I just wanted to let you know that was something I was interested in. (Mostly to be in the know. I've only seen a few episodes of Star Trek. I'm not much for space, I think. Although I'm kind of enjoying my John Carter of Mars book -- despite it being the standard "What These People Need is a Honky" story in space.)
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Oh man - the STAR TREK thing requires an answer i just don't have time to get into right now. It has to do with what I consider to be lazy writing on a formula combined with a certain kind of racial profiling that wouldn't have been seen as anything but negatively racist had the characters involved been human, and pretty stereotypically cartoonishly visually "human racist" in the way it was constructed.
I have a feeling this is something I'll want to get off my chest by the time the new-old TREK movie comes out this summer, but the time just isn't around.
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But yeah, you can talk about this when you have the time. I just wanted to let you know that was something I was interested in. (Mostly to be in the know. I've only seen a few episodes of Star Trek. I'm not much for space, I think. Although I'm kind of enjoying my John Carter of Mars book -- despite it being the standard "What These People Need is a Honky" story in space.)