Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy

reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.

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• semisimian@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you know where you are commenting? And surely you mean “another Star Trek work place comedy,” because we already have DS9.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d argue that large parts of Lower Decks is as well honestly. Especially episodes where the main characters are busy with ship duties while the senior officers are off doing typical Star Trek plot stuff.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t care. Like star trek, but this sounds like an awful idea and a flop that will just dilute the brand even further. The live version of her character and Quaid’s was great. I wish they would land back on SNW or something.

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    • usernamefactory@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You say “dilute,” I say “diversify”. Star Trek has always had a place for comedy. That doesn’t mean anything goes, and I get being trepidatious after the trash fire that was S31, but I think there’s good reason for optimism in this case. If Lower Decks and interviews like this are anything to go by, it looks like Newsome knows that any comedy needs to jibe with the overall Trek ethos.

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    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      do you only claim “the brand is diluted” when Black women get involved or do you do that for every mediocre project?

      unless you’re Stamets and you already saw all the future Trek projects I don’t understand how you’d know whether they’re good or not.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that not what DS9 was?

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