HOLY FUCKING SHIT DOUG JONES IS PLAYING A TREK BEYOND ALIEN SCIENCE OFFICER

HOLY FUCKING SHIT DOUG JONES IS PLAYING A TREK BEYOND ALIEN SCIENCE OFFICER

>Star Trek: Discovery is starting to fill its decks.

>CBS Access is now confirming Michelle Yeoh will join the show, which has also cast two more actors to star in the eagerly anticipated series. One of the new characters will be the decades-old franchise’s first to be originally conceived and announced as gay.

>First up: Actor Doug Jones (Hellboy, Falling Skies) will play Lt. Saru, a Starfleet Science Officer and a new alien species to the Star Trek universe.

>Second, Anthony Rapp (Rent, Road Trip) will star as Lt. Stamets, an “astromycologist,” fungus expert, and Starfleet Science Officer aboard the Starship Discovery. Lt. Stamets is the new gay character; previously, Trek icon Lt. Sulu was revealed to be gay in this year’s movie Star Trek Beyond. That was considered a controversial move, however, because it came so late in Sulu’s history, which extends back to the franchise’s original series. (Actor George Takei, who initially played Sulu, was critical of the Star Trek Beyond change, saying this past summer, “I hoped instead that [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry’s original characters and their backgrounds would be respected. How exciting it would be instead if a new hero might be created, whose story could be fleshed out from scratch, rather than reinvented. To me, this would have been even more impactful.”)

>And finally, Yeoh, who was previously reported as joining the cast, will play Captain Georgiou, the Starfleet Captain aboard the Starship Shenzhou.

>Lt. Stamets, an “astromycologist,” fungus expert,

>not giving Yeoh the lead role instead of a sassy black lady
Dropped

Shut up with the sassy black lady shit, you fucking autist.

Good choice

>ship has chinese name
>chinese lady has non-chinese name

Doug's a great guy. I regularly see him at my friends parties.

Get off your ass and work on Hellboy 3, Guillermo

she's probably married to some Greek guy

Doug Jones is the shit. He can completely hide behind makeup, and still act.

I really hope his alien character will be fucking tits

>Let's pick the haggard, 300-year old asian woman to be ship captain.

it's in a future where that shit doesn't matter

>mfw this could actually be good

not an argument

She looks like she can catch alzheimers any day now.

So?

Hyped for Doug, worried for forced in your face diversity stuff, but diversity has always been the name of the game on Trek and I believe in Fuller to make it not too overbearing like the old Treks were.

Wait, is Fuller even still doing it?

I am ok with all of this. Still no mudslimes.

>asian captain
>piloting a ship with an Asian name

lol why not just give her an opium pipe too, Fuller?

Bullshit Michelle Yeoh hasn't hit the infamous Asian menopause yet. She's still fine as fuck.

Plus you know that thing is never going over warp 1 and is going to get in a TON of accidents.

>Star Trek has gone full China pandering

...

Chinks are better than Nigs desu

No longer show runner only exec producer. So no, he is no longer doing it.

>getting triggered over the race of a Star Trek character

You ever consider that this franchise might not be the right fit for you?

alzheimers is cured in the 23rd century

>We need a weird dude to cover on makeup to play a skinny monster
>I know just the guy, sir

>forced in your face diversity stuff
>diversity has always been the name of the game on Trek
???? do you people ever read the shit you type?

>forced in your face diversity
Are you forgetting what franchise this is?

why haven't they cured gayness tho?

>yfw doug jones is on board as Abe Sapien, science officer

I'm saying there is a difference between it being forced and terrible and how old Trek used to handle it. I have no problem with diversity on Star Trek, I'm not some mongoloid who thinks there is any other way the future is going to go.

who?

>I'm saying there is a difference between it being forced and terrible and how old Trek used to handle it.

yes, Hu is the new captain!

If old Trek was out now you would say the diversity is forced and terrible.

You're already saying it about this show that you've literally not seen one second of.

forced = I don't like it because now "I have a say"

Yes, that is good. A big black alien taking the white captain's wife from him and the white captain winking at the camera as she moans in the background is not.

I literally did not. You just think I did because you're a mentally ill want to be offended SJW. Like I said, zero problem with diversity, big problem with forced shitty diversity for diversity's sake.

>you are literally posting alongside anons who think the black on the right side filth deserves rights

>big problem with forced shitty diversity for diversity's sake.

you mean like putting a black woman, an Asian, and a Russian on the bridge?

>diversity for diversity's sake
>Star Trek

seriously, you ok? you hit your head or something, buddy?

No, because that wasn't shitty.

Why are you not understanding this?

I'm fine. You two might be fucking retarded though.

Get out of here Persephone, white females like you have no place in Star Trek's vision of the future. Well unless you have a Klingon bull you are being bred by then it's okay.

>Persephone
>White

Psh, maybe Typhlosion, Persephone isn't white she has brown hair.

>it's in a future shit doesn't matter*

Close though.

Jesus H., it always happens.

They fall for it so easy.

>No, because that wasn't shitty.

How do you know it's shitty in this?

I don't you fucking imbecile.

>I believe in Fuller to make it not too overbearing

I literally said I think it won't be.

To be fair, there are some badass mushrooms out there.

You're trying awful hard to get triggered by something that isn't there tumblr

you guys know exactly what he's saying

you use mallet not a fucking jackhammer

Tos 'let that be your last battlefield' is hardcore cherrypicking.

>openly gay character

Very progressive thing to do in 1995.

she's been bleached

>the Starfleet Captain aboard the Starship Shenzhou.
>Starship Shenzhou
>NCC Shenzhou
who thought of that shit ?
asian captain on an asian ship

they probably want this to do well in chinkland

>Two white guys and hot Asian MILF

Pleasantly surprised at how problematic it is.

they'll probably include serveral different asian crewmen to introduce chinese/japanese/korean tensions between the camps

>Not naming it the Starship Shinzon after Starfleet's greatest adversary

Might as well have called it the Seppuku if you're letting an Asian drive it.

It's the future. Everybody is mudslime.

>franchise’s first to be originally conceived as gay
>originally conceived as gay

Poor Sulu.

>aboard the Starship Discovery
>aboard the Starship Shenzhou

So how many ships is this series going to follow?

Will the furry and otherkin community be represented in the show?

>prequel
why, what are they afraid of?

The Budget

They'll go extinct battling against freedom. It's only a matter of time.

Being so bogged down in continuity it's impossible to tell a story I'd imagine

I WANT TO FUCK AN OLD CHINESE LADY

>>Being so bogged down in continuity it's impossible to tell a story I'd imagine

But a prequel presents a similar dilemma.

They now have to be mindful of two squeezed portions of time.

Granted, all the cues are from ENT, they can't paint themselves in a way to negate future events or even hint at something that would make no sense in TOS

this is the only asian spaceship captain we need

How many space viagras will she have in her ready room for space adaptation sickness

I DON'T WANT TO FUCK AN OLD CHINESE LADY

word

I like Doug Jones, but this casting and the descriptions let me know this series is going to be 100 percent shit.

What specifically?

Chink and two fags.

Does your mom know you use this kind of language on the internet?

I don't go on here much, hardly ever. But I met doug years ago when they were filming Absentia, I didn't know who he was at the time other than he was VERY nice, I literally lived just steps away where they filmed the movie, the tunnel in that movie is where we used to blow up fire crackers as a kid.

>Jingly jangly tall meme man playing some quirky alien
Shit, I bet they have an episode where his fellow lanklet alien brother played by Stephen Merchant or Bazinga Boy

>Gay mushroom man. Probably make lots of innuendo about big dick-shaped fungi

Sounds shit

>Asian captain
Yawn. Asians are the most played out fucking meme race.

You're really dumb

>Starship Shenzhou
>Starship Discovery

So the show is about two different crews?

Are you literally retarded? How do you even function in daily life?

why is there a fungus expert

Because mushrooms look like penises and penises are there because gay people are there because diversity is there.

>new alien species
ok
>Captain Georgiou
Is she romanian? top kek

I have never been more positive I was responding to a closet homosexual in my whole life.

>>Is she romanian? top kek
Maybe she identifies Romanian males so her gender might be male even though her sex is female, and, while being Chinese, she may consider herself Romanian.

These posts sure are as fresh and funny as they've ever been

>I have never been more positive
HIV Positive?
>I was responding to a closet homosexual in my whole life.
Actually, your inability to perceive sarcasm when presented in such an obvious way might be more telling about your undiagnosed TBI than your projection of your own latent gayness.

Actually, you're taking it seriously. A throwaway sarcastic post about the people on this board who complain about diversity and progressiveness.

Both you two missed it by a mile and for two different reasons. Get yourselves an MRI when you get a chance.

How can /trek/ threads be the only good thing on Sup Forums but all the Discovery / Jew Jew Trek threads be tumblr-tier SJW shitfests every time without fail?

>Future where mankind has advanced beyond most weaknesses and trivialities
>Attention seeking faggots still exist

It's like the sun coming up the morning...

This every single time.

Because /Trek/ isn't filled with retards getting triggered over Trek having girls in it

#rekt

Why did Star Trek never have a single woman in it anyway? You sure showed those problematic sexist assholes.

>astromycologist
What the actual FUCK

Yes, I've seen your single argument showing that you can't identify the difference between an episode having a story that was an allegory for race relations and having every character be a gay minority because it's 2016, I'm not impressed.

If we have one episode about how racial and ideological homogeneity could be bad, can every character be a cis white male that voted Trump?

they'll be no shortage of xenoproctologists and spectral JDs

>having every character be a gay minority because it's 2016

But you haven't seen the show that you're complaining about