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- From: asparrow@cs.umr.edu (Angelia Sparrow)
- Subject: Re: Blacks on Star Trek and other places
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:57:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.022859.17716@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>|> maybe someone can give me some good role models for blacks on TV.
- >> I don't watch that much TV, but how about Star Trek?
- >> Original--Uhura-Chief Communications Officer
- >> Next Gen--Jordie (sp) -head engineer
- >> Deep Space 9-- the commander of the space station is black
- >
- >Oh yeah? What do you think Starfleet Academy is? You don't think that
- >they don't have quotas? What about Gene Roddenberry's original memo
- >requiring that 40% of the crew of the Enterprise be women? Or that
- >William Shatner's wife played the chief nurse? Is that nepotism, or
- >what?
- >
- >For that matter, how many blacks were on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?
- >That was a much better show than Star Trek, anyway. Gil Gerard could beat
- >up William Shatner any day. That'll teach Kirk to have an affair with
- >Spock.
- >a
-
- Ahh, a debate I can use facts in!
-
- 1) The ratio was 3:1 men to women. 1:1 would look like there
- was sex going on. 3:1 the other direction would be having
- harems.
-
- 2) Starfleet Academy is no more a "government program for the advancement
- of minorities" than is William Jewell College in Liberty Mo. It
- is designed to train the best and brightest for starship work. There
- are equal numbers from The United States of Africa as there are from anywhere
- else.
-
- 3) The Majel Barrett point has already been made. I like her better
- as Number One and Luxwna Troi.
-
- 4) I don't remember enough of Buck Rogers. But it strikes me that
- either all the blackls were wiped in the plague (not unlike _Logan's
- Run_) or there was one on the high council. I can't remember. i
- was too busy covetting Ardala's clothing.
-
- 5) Ahh, the K/S legend get around. Homosexuality is not
- logical. Vulcans have enough trouble with the sex stuff.
- They wouldn't put themselves through it if they could find a better
- way to reproduce. To do it without the possibility of reproduction
- is abhorrant since it involves being out of control.
-
- Angel, into SF for 16 years
-
- ObRush Limbaugh: Am considering sending a video starring my
- Vampyres list character expounding the Children of the Night's
- platform plank of "No Bubbas" Any ideas on how many videos
- he gets vs. how many he uses?
-
-
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