Star Dreck

[Kugelfisch]

an alcoholic drug addict

From the ghetto. You know, those Star Trek ghettos? Those trailer parks in a post-scarcity future? Them 21st century Baltimore slums in an age where people have replicators at home?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

That one's just puzzling. She was a high-ranking Starfleet officer. Those guys are jack of all trades, master of everything. She should be qualified enough to get any job she wants, even if she's associated with this Romulus incident (space is big, and not everyone cares).
But nope. They had to make her poor to be topical. Or something.

"muh representation" has always been a load of bullshit that only focuses on what's happening at the moment. The people behind this bullshit will proclaim that putting a gay character in a shitty blockbuster is Earth-shattering, but they never mention the gay artists who have made an actual impact on cinema. Apparently, gay Disney characters are more noteworthy than F. W. Murnau, James Whale, John Schlesinger, and Jean Cocteau. And what about the gay blockbuster directors like Joel Schumacher and Roland Emmerich; why aren't they ever held up as important examples of "representation" in the industry?

They don't care about gay artists. They just put token characters in their movies to signal their virtue and scare off mean critics.

[Cuckara]

"muh representation" has always been a load of bullshit that only focuses on what's happening at the moment. The people behind this bullshit will proclaim that putting a gay character in a shitty blockbuster is Earth-shattering, but they never mention the gay artists who have made an actual impact on cinema. Apparently, gay Disney characters are more noteworthy than F. W. Murnau, James Whale, John Schlesinger, and Jean Cocteau. And what about the gay blockbuster directors like Joel Schumacher and Roland Emmerich; why aren't they ever held up as important examples of "representation" in the industry?

They don't care about gay artists. They just put token characters in their movies to signal their virtue and scare off mean critics.

Exactly. The only things these people care about are looking good and making money.

[Guest]

Bashir looks sufficiently white to fool most people.

But his established parents in the show were Babu from Seinfeld and another dot not feather indian.

[Guest]

TNG White Male main characters: Riker and Picard

DS9 White Male main haracters: O'Brien

Voyager White Male main characters: Tom Paris and The Doctor

Enterprise White Male main Characters: Archer, Trip, Reed.

Yep, nothing but white males until woke Discovery and Picard came along.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

TOS was hilariously enough more diverse than TNG because TNG didn't have an Asian character. DS9 only kinda does it because O'Brien married a Nihon waifu (giving hope to weebs everywhere).

Bashir looks sufficiently white to fool most people.

But his established parents in the show were Babu from Seinfeld and another dot not feather indian.

But how often do his established parents show up in the series?

[BenComicGraphics]

an alcoholic drug addict

From the ghetto. You know, those Star Trek ghettos? Those trailer parks in a post-scarcity future? Them 21st century Baltimore slums in an age where people have replicators at home?

She also abandoned her child for the life of an alcoholic drug addict in a trailer versus attempting to piece her life together. She's made no attempt to clean up her act, blames picard for her failing to be a decent human being, shows up at her son's place with no attempt to address her faults and expects him to forgive her too.

[Guest]

Bashir's Indian parents show up for one episode but it was a pretty important one in terms of his back story.

Hell, the actor's original name was Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi before he shortened it to Siddig El Fadil, and then finally Alexander Siddig.

Plus he banged Major Kira IRL. Good for him.

[Guest]

Bashir's Indian parents show up for one episode but it was a pretty important one in terms of his back story.

Hell, the actor's original name was Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi before he shortened it to Siddig El Fadil, and then finally Alexander Siddig.

Plus he banged Major Kira IRL. Good for him.

"Passing white" for dumb fuck kids born in the late 90s though.

[Kugelfisch]

All light brown people, including Latinos, are white whenever convenient. Need terrorism numbers? Arabs are now white, Latinos aren't. Need street crime statistics? Everyone besides Asians and Nigs is now white.