Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

I like her, but if she is going to be the average for the cast, by the time it makes it to the seventh year syndication mark, they'll be in wheelchairs.

She could have been a former nco or warrant officer, or a reservest.

It's not. The Axanar thing happened 10 years before this show is set.

Also, what makes you think she's the lead and not the non-lead Captain, a la Martin Sheen in West Wing?

The bond girl from 1996?

Yup.

Yeoh is NOT the Lt. Commander, but captain of another ship.
They're still looking for a black or hispanic actress for the lead.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/yeohs-star-trek-discovery-role-revealed/

OMG A TOKEN HURR

Still want Sarah Shahi, she's white but not the "classic pure white-bread northern European white. (Iranian father, Spanish mother)

So basically, like Prince Harry's nenew girlfriend

Oh, look, the Chinese character just happened to wind up in command of ship named after a Chinese space program.

Scandalous. TOS would never have had a North American captaining a ship named after US vessels.

Holy shit this show needs to die RIGHT NOW.

Because of Michelle Yeoh or because they've moved from progressive color blind casting to ultra left wing minority specific casting?

I remember hearing this before.
In the early years of DS9.

Sure.

I heard fans were boycotting TNG before it had even aired

Depends how they play it, after all nominative determinism can be used to comedic effect and this is in the same ballpark. If they're just going to play it straight, then meh, but it flat out calls for a few lines:

"So wait, they put a Chinese Captain in charge of the Shenzou?"
"It's Starfleet. There's probably some small print in a regulation"

Or I dare them, as part of the Discovery getting rescued, to use a line like "I always was a sucker for Chinese takeaway"

Of course, sticking a native American in charge of the USS George A Custer would have been much more amusing...

Joseph Kennedy. Of very proud Irish descent was made ambassador to the British Empire.

A remark that fundamentally misunderstands the history of Anglo-Irish relations.

Come on, though. Black commander, lady first officer, muslim-looking doctor, and an Irish engineer with an Asian wife? Tokens! Tokens, all of them!

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It had more to do with Deep Space Nine being very flawed concept from the start though it was later executed amazingly well.

Doug Jones (“Hellboy”) and Anthony Rapp (“Rent”), have joined.

Rapp is a fungus scientist on Discovery, Jones will be a new type of alien, and a science officer, but no word on what ship he's on.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/jones-rapp-join-star-trek-discovery/

I follow somone on Twitters who's a self-hating white social justice warrior, and he's already bitching:

"I know it's early days and all, but 2/3 of the announced Discovery cast being white dudes doesn't bode well for its promises of diversity."

"It would bother me less on a different show. But Trek is constantly beating its own chest about this. Not off to a great start, guys!"

Damn, that WAS fast!

Twitters gotta tweet.

Michelle Yeoh = Captain Georgiou
Doug Jones = Lt. Saru
Anthony Rapp = Lt. Stamets

Fuller on how little he's going to be involved with the new series.

Maybe CBS wised up to his progressive propaganda and after the election showed him the door.

Considering CBS's politics, I doubt that very much. If I were to guess, it's because he wanted to go in a direction the studio didn't want and it put its foot down, or he didn't want to do something the studio did want and was shown the door.

TBH, I had mixed feelings about him anyway. I honestly wish they'd hit up Ira Steven Behr.