![]() A third person called Yeoh “a reject from a overseas customer-support line.” A fourth dubbed the show “Star Trek: Feminist Lesbian Edition.” “Is everything going to have to have females in every fucking thing?” another asked. “Where is the alpha male that has balls and doesn’t take crap from anyone?” one asked. ![]() ![]() Many commenters, though, were clearly appalled by the absence of white men in command positions. Very quickly, the comments section was filled with garden-variety Trekkie gripes-the Klingons looked weird, there was too much lens flare, the dialogue was hammy, the uniforms were non-canonical. It opens with a conversation between the two lead characters, a starship captain and her first officer, played by Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green, both women of color. ![]() ![]() The commotion began last week, when the show’s trailer first appeared on YouTube. This being the United States in 2017, Internet trolls are accusing “Star Trek: Discovery,” the newest incarnation of the sci-fi franchise, due to début on television in the fall, of white genocide. ![]()
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