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Am I not Allowed to Question the Legitimacy? A Rant on Race & Trek

Jun 12, 2011 00:45

Hello~ New member~!

I was directed here a while back by rubynye when I posted about this very issue over at spock_uhura. I ended up getting swamped with school and didn't get the opportunity to really bring the discussion here, but nooooow I have some free time. Yay!

( Beating a dead horse )

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tigerbright June 12 2011, 05:20:32 UTC

Well said! (And I happen to be Rubynye's roommate and we discuss fandom every morning on our drive to work, along with race issues as they apply, and gender issues as they reply... I love being her housemate.)

lady_mercury June 13 2011, 21:40:07 UTC

Thanks!

Oh wow, how cool! It's great to have that person to discuss these issues with. Sometimes its gets frustrating, because out in the fandom world, it always seems like I'm always fighting the fight alone.

It makes me question where I stand. Am I being "radical" and racist? Should I accept Roddenberry's supposed "vision"?

d_c_m June 12 2011, 14:06:26 UTC

Yes. :) Thanks for posting.

I'm so hoping Uhura gets to keep rocking and doing more in this new reboot. A whole movie focusing on her would be grand. :)

lady_mercury June 13 2011, 21:38:18 UTC

Thanks :D! You're welcome!

It would be grand~ Or that the franchise takes a grander notice on her like they do with the trifecta :D Show us what has been denied to us for 40-odd years :)

witchsistah June 13 2011, 12:56:38 UTC

See how I was treated in THIS gem of a discussion:

http://startrek.livejournal.com/796933.html?thread=7878661#t7878661

lady_mercury June 13 2011, 21:32:59 UTC

I read that entire conversation. Augh, that is the same crap I get whenever I talk race in Trek over at TrekBBS -- which is why I left. We are too loud, we're too angry, and we're looking at the problems with a modern mindset ( ... )

poeticalpanther June 13 2011, 14:12:56 UTC

Excellent post, and all true. And sad, for me, that even her "upgraded" appearance in the reboot movie consisted mostly of snogging Spock; when her personal Moment of Awesome came (she's fluent in three Romulan dialects? AWESOME!), all she got to do was confirm it when Jim Fucking Kirk reported it!

Kirk: "Uhura found out this and this and this!"

Uhura: nods.

Grrr.

lady_mercury June 13 2011, 21:36:44 UTC

I look at Uhura's position in the movie not as a character that advanced the plot via action but as the emotional conscious for our main. She basically was the Bones to Spock's Kirk. So, I didn't mind that at all, I actually enjoyed watching her have that much of an impact on one of the main character and in return see a softer side to her that isn't "sassy black woman".

As for the sequel, I want to see her speaking Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, Andorian, etc etc. I want her commanding her division and I want her to take control. The romance is over, now we need to see the reason why she's on board the Enterprise.