>The lead character - who will be female, and likely either black or Hispanic - will be "on a journey that's going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy," Fuller's revealed. "For her to truly understand something that is alien, she has to first understand herself."
>And in a Trek first, the lead character will not be the ship's captain, but the Discovery's lieutenant commander - joined by an ensemble of roughly seven main characters.
>"When we introduce our protagonist, she is called Number One," Fuller revealed in late August - though we will learn our hero's name by the end of the first season.
>In casting the lead role, Fuller said he's seeking an actress who embodies "strength, sensitivity and an amusing neurosis that goes with exploring space, which is extraordinarily dangerous and has the potential to be terrifying."
So it's confirmed that the main character in the new Trek will be a woman, and likely black or hispanic.
I guarantee this show will flop if the female lead is black like pic related. However, it can be saved if she's a hot latino and there are so good main male characters (like the captain)
Pushing the progressive shit is decades old with Trek
I was hoping for something new, but nope, the same old.
Jack Ortiz
>>"When we introduce our protagonist, she is called Number One," Fuller revealed in late August - though we will learn our hero's name by the end of the first season.
I get it. I understand why they'd do that. Symbolically and thematically.
It is also sounds really fucking dumb.
Easton Jenkins
Who cares? When's Stargate coming back?
Matthew Reyes
We've already had a black and a female protagonist. How long until we get the first trans, wheelchair bound, and mentally retarded captains?
Eli Powell
You fucko, Star Trek is LITERALLY one of the most liberal and pogressive franchises out there If it fails it won't be because a black female lead
>A main character WILL be gay This is fine, and fits with Star Trek. As long as it's not incredibly hamfisted and is just a sort of background detail rather than LOOK WE HAVE A GAY CHARACTER SERIOUSLY CHECK THIS SHIT OUT
>We could be in for a more graphic Trek, too - though we're not talking Hannibal levels of gore. Nor should you expect any bad language. >"Because we're CBS All Access, we're not subject to network broadcast standards and practices," Fuller said in June 2016. >"It will likely affect us more in terms of what we can do graphically, but Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity, either." This sounds good.
>We'll be getting 13 episodes of "flexible" length - CBS likely opting for a shorter run to accommodate Fuller's other job on Starz's Neil Gaiman adaptation American Gods. Busy guy. >Fuller also thinks a longer season would "fatigue the show", saying: "I would strongly recommend that we never do 26 episodes. Ideally I would like to do 10 episodes. I think that's a tighter story." >Again, taking advantage of the streaming format, the show "won't be episodic" but will instead tell longer stories, like a novel. Sounds good also. Had enough episodic monster of the week Trek
Joshua Torres
is there no hope
Ryder Russell
If it fails it's because if the MGTOW / Ghostbuster Fanbase / Computer Website Hackers
Robert Butler
Star Trek is LIBERAL? Who knew!
Idiots.
Tyler Thomas
Are there any example of media franchises with black female leads? Any examples of them being commercially successful?
Would network execs really take such a gamble? Especially considering how black females are the least desirable among all races.
Why are asians so discriminated against in the USA's media yet people only talk about blacks?
Elijah Taylor
Her name will probably be Matumbe "Click Click" Matembe.
Hunter Jenkins
No one has a problem with Star Trek being Star Trek, aka liberla and utopian. I'm just worried that a black female lead simply cannot carry a show successfully. I think an asian or latino has a much better chance, commercially. What do you think?
Camden Ramirez
This is the #1 show on Fox
Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder are also successful
Then again all three of those shows are soap opera fantasies about wealthy middle aged black women, not science fiction.
Kayden Phillips
>We could be in for a more graphic Trek
Knowing Fuller this no doubt means more dick shots and man ass
Alexander Sanchez
This show will flop no one likes seeing niggers on the tv.
Adrian Gomez
This industry is so fucking devoid of talent that I'm going to make a wild prediction:
Her name, as revealed in the last shots of the last episode, will be UHURA or SISKO
I don't know. Something to that effect.
Dominic Roberts
Anti-SJWs are so retarded they complain about Star Trek now.
They wrote themselves an escape hatch though to save face. It's going to be set up like American Horror Story where all of the seasons are different people in different stories. If people dislike the black female captain, they'll have the option to just switch to something else to save face.
Dylan Thompson
>Her name, as revealed in the last shots of the last episode, will be UHURA or SISKO
James Butler
I think you're just another Sup Forumstard who needs to back to. his shitty board.
Jonathan Wood
In a few years when roland emmerich shits out his reboot
Mason Phillips
List some media projects that have black female leads and are successful.
Jace Robinson
I'm not from Sup Forums and I have nothing against blacks, I'm just trying to get others opinions about whether they think a black female lead can carry a show, based on empirical evidence from other media sources
Jaxon Sanders
Scandal How to get away with Murder Archer
Why not try it on Star Trek anyways? They had the first interracial kiss on tv after all.
Angel Barnes
>"When we introduce our protagonist, she is called Number One," Fuller revealed in late August - though we will learn our hero's name by the end of the first season. that's fucking retarded, what a stupid gimmick. do they really think that will be captivating, that people will be tuning in just to find out her bloody name
hopefully they will cast a hispanic, i can't really think of any from the other shows besides Kahn and they get far less representation
Owen Brooks
It's telling how you say that as if those things make for less compelling or reality characters.
Liam Cook
>We could be in for a more graphic Trek, too - though we're not talking Hannibal levels of gore. Nor should you expect any bad language.
Robert Clark
Here are the three kinds of Sup Forumstards.
The Troll. He just wants to spread discontent The Sup Forumstard in denial. He thinks he isn't Sup Forums even though everything he says belongs on Sup Forums And the stormweenie. Self-explanatory.
Nolan Hughes
>Archer Is this some kind of show about an actual black female Archer? Because I don't recall Archer being about a black female spy.
Logan Ross
In current year yes. It means they got hired due to diversity reasons over actual acting ability.
Carson Ortiz
A lot of overlap between the audience of Scandal and Star Trek?
Grayson Jones
a giant worm that ate little worms, i never got that.
were they cannibals?
don't worms eat dirt or decaying plants or some shit
Sebastian Gray
You just have to go and label people, you're such a bigot. Let's get serious about this.
What's wrong with Don Cheadle's skull? And don't tell me "nothing".
Michael Jackson
or Khan, one could hope
Ethan Barnes
What if we get lewd Starfleet Officers?
Grayson Reed
Mammals eat other mammals.
Brody Howard
>the name gimmick My cautious optimism has been replaced by preemptive disappointment
Connor Rivera
Well considering that women of color make up less than 1% of Star Trek's fanbase. Good luck with this.
Ryder Turner
Now we only need the other guy to comeback and say "I am not Sup Forums though" and you guys have made exactly the same posts again.
Easton Perry
>Implying Sup Forumsyards give a fuck about this board
Michael Jones
As long as she's a good actor. Hell, make her half alien while their at it.
Liam Perry
This isn't photoshopped!
Look at his fucking skull!
Jose Peterson
Hey boys looks like we got ourselves a genuine nigger lover here. You guys know what we do to nigger lovers in these parts right?
Juan Hill
What I wouldn't give to see a picture of what you look like.
I'm going to go out on a limb: pasty, balding, and bespectacled.
Connor Foster
Why are they here 24/7 then?
Why do you care about a man's skull?
Nolan Hall
Unless they get the writing and actor right its going to be shit.
Jaxon Butler
Alright. Getting boring now. You are so one note.
1 out of 3. Not bad.
Jose Anderson
I heard they were getting Laurence Fishburne's wife.
All I see from here is your obsession with it.
Anthony Sullivan
We already had a non linear captain whatever you just mentioned is backwards as fuark literally 2016 tier 2bh frampai
Brody Hernandez
>less compelling or reality characters
Yeah, a mentally retarded starship captain sure would be compelling and realistic.
Jose Smith
So the lead character starts out as the First Officer. Whoever they cast as the Captain better be prepared to be killed off soon.
Eli Sanders
As long as there's space lesbians I don't give a shit tbqh
Adrian Reyes
Sup Forums is a Sup Forums board for the discussion of film and TV.Anons post here and the only thing about them you can discern is there taste or lack thereof.In fact every reply you make could be aimed at somebody with more melanin content than you.I could care less about someones skin color as long as they have something interesting to say regarding the subject matter.You and your kind are boring.Kindly fuck off.
Zachary Garcia
>>The lead character - who will be female, and likely either black or Hispanic - will be "on a journey that's going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy," Fuller's revealed. "For her to truly understand something that is alien, she has to first understand herself."
just from that I know the show is going to be fucking retarded. I don't blame the person who will be cast though she will probably take the shit for it's inevitable failure
David Powell
I don't want gay characters because they would make the already intolerable "(character) gets a new boy/girlfriend" episodes slightly more annoying and common than they already were.
Jack Carter
Khan was played by a white hispanic, then by a white Brit, but he was meant to be a Sikh Indian. Yes, it's weird.
But yes, Hispanics are the forgotten demographic.
Please no blacks. I am sick of their complaining. I am sick of how much roles they are gifted. I am sick of how they are always the protagonist. They haven't earned respect in this world so they just beg for it. And commit a shocking amount of crime.
I won't watch if she's black.
Dylan Nguyen
>I don't want
Evan Walker
>I won't watch if she's black. k
James Rogers
The best episodes of trek are episodic, monster of the week (or even worse, planet in peril of the week) episodes are shit, but that could be solved by slimming down the seasons like they're already doing so they can trim the fat.
Episodic Trek is best trek and fucking EVERYTHING is serialized now, I really don't want serialized trek, or sat the most keep it at DS9 levels of "serialized" where it's really not serialized at all, it's just that the universe doesn't completely reset to zero every time an episode ends.
Blake Lopez
a Sikh would be nice and lets face it if indians ever manage to figure out indoor plumbing they'll become a superpower
Christian Harris
The fact they say "likely either black or hispanic" means they're doing it for the wrong reasons and this is going to bomb. I could respect if they said "likely black" because that means they either have a vision of a black female captain or they have a particular black actress in mind that would pull it off.
By saying "black or hispanic" that means they just particularly don't want a woman who is white and even worse, don't even have it narrowed down to one yet.
William Turner
Exactly what I was thinking. It sort of implies that they would write a black and hispanic women exactly the same way. Like all minorities are the same shit. It is just important she isn't white.
Angel Ramirez
This all sounds really promising. Looking forward to it.
Gabriel Ramirez
what episode is tghat
Jacob Wright
This. The phrase means "anything but white" and "we haven't decided who to pander to yet"
Elijah Jackson
> Captain starts off as a Kirk type. > Crew dislikes his brash, cocky style but he's the Captain. > Number One acts as a buffer between crew and Captain. > Captain gets horribly killed while doing something reckless > Number One gets promoted to Captain, makes speech about "how things are going to be different around here" now. Crew bursts into applause.
Gavin Mitchell
>Make television show >Cast black leads >Force viewers to pay monthly
The word for this is welfare.
Kayden Fisher
>"on a journey that's going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy"
Get ready for the old captain to be an angry, oppressive war monger.
Grayson Davis
>force
Nathaniel Nguyen
>captain of starfleet >war monger
You almost sound non-retarded
Nathaniel Adams
>pay monthly But it's on CBS
Brody James
It wont hold. The problem with this casting is that it becomes the sole characteristic of their character. Take Sisko and Janeway for example. There is only 2 episodes where Sisko talks about being black and how difficult it was for black people. 2 fucking times. You know that this series will have something like that every episode if she's black
Jose Thomas
It's on CBS' paid streaming service. It won't be on free TV.
Bentley Gomez
Right, it's not like a Starfleet admiral has ever tried to start some shit. Use your noggin. There was a captain, then they die. Their death is probably going to be caused by their own actions.
Brayden Green
Who's forcing who to pay?
Matthew Kelly
...CBS has that? I had no idea. Guess I'll be watching for free a different way
Zachary Morris
"Commander, tell me about your sexual organs."
Joshua Morris
>it's not like a Starfleet admiral has ever tried to start some shit
Yeah, in the retarded TNG films.
Benjamin Parker
It will be a white girl, or at white-ish latina.
Just LMFAO @ the idea of Hollywood basing a blockbuster on a colored woman
Nathaniel Morris
You know damn well the sort of Captain user is talking about.
Hudson James
>blockbuster
Do you even know what that word means?
Sebastian Thomas
>She won't be white. She'll be an interchangeable minority because they all act the same Is that not offensive?
Joseph Ortiz
>blockbuster
Eli Torres
>Fuller Guess who don't care about Gene's ideals?
Owen Reed
a big budget production
Ryan Fisher
Maybe he thinks it's about the next Star Trek movie But if you look at Beyond's performance I'm not sure there will be a Star Trek 4
Isaac Price
>Blockbuster, as applied to film, theatre, and sometimes also video games, denotes a very popular or successful, usually big budget production.
So you are retarded, right?
Logan Morris
....and the old films.....and the new films....
Julian Parker
>I guarantee this show will flop if the female lead is black like pic related. However, it can be saved if she's a hot latino and there are so good main male characters (like the captain) What kills me about Star Trek is that they actually have had some very interesting and awesome female characters...then TNG ended and we ended up with a parade of "let's make the worst females ever" while managing to attempt to pander to a wide assed range of opposite views of women and failing at that task.
William Thomas
The last two Star Trek films features warmongering captains as villains.
Hit the road, Jack, and don't cha come back no mo no mo nO MO NO MO
Eli Cook
The JJ Trek is terrible except for Beyond which is genuinely the best Trek film since the 80's. But yeah, I forgot about Admiral Blackman
Parker Gray
>Please no blacks. I am sick of their complaining. >Entire post is complaining
Kek
Christian Wright
B-but on Twitter I search out all those people just so I can complain about them!
Blake Ramirez
>except for Beyond which is genuinely the best Trek film since the 80's. Undiscovered Country came out in 91 so no.
David Robinson
>It's telling how you say that as if those things make for less compelling or reality characters. Nah homie, it's not that those characteristics reduce interest or reality in a character, it's just that those kinds of characters end up being done fucking terribly. Those aspects are used in place of characterization. It's like how if you hop on deviant art and look at the characters and see everyone who thinks that physical characteristics=interesting character ("muh heterochromia" for example).
It's almost almost a shitty gimmick.
So yeah, it's not the characteristics themselves that are the problem, it's that such are warning signs that you won't get a good character.
Brody Kelly
not really the same when he isn't touching the town he lives in
Jackson Howard
Honestly, I liked this more than UC but only barely. I also always forget it came out so late.
Oliver Butler
>The people with whom I am in ideological disagreement are a gestalt that uniformly exhibits the same behavior
Really made my synapses fire off in correspondence with one another and give rise to higher thought