Frakes Still Wants “Star Trek: TNG” Ep Pulled
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He wants "Code of Honor" pulled because it somehow shows racial stereotypes... (that because black people were cast as the aliens and that the aliens follow an almost Klingon like respect for battle and shows of force = black people be like all violent and stuff! and thus the smart wypipo must protec them!)
Except that the women actually have all the real power in society and fight their own battles which was (and is) a progressive attitude. (Unless you're a transwoman, which currently trumps all other progressive levels on the marxist ladder of influence.)
Except that the black men are shown as very smart and cunning.
Except that the entire concept was based on Chinese culture pre-communist China. (heh - communism is colonization...)
It's a lousy episode regardless - but it shouldn't be censored.
twist: he's really racist and misogynist and doesn't want black people portrayed as smart enough to have a matriarchal spacefaring civilization
Would be funny but by all accounts he's a bigger cuck than Stewart even.
One thing that is funny to me is that the "le racisms!" they always focus on are the garb they were and the way they speak...which is basically just how most Africa-Africans sound.
Interesting that the never mention the whole conflict of the episode is that the king sees Tasha Yar, a blonde White woman, and decides he doesn't want his current wife queen stank booty anymore. So he just grabs Yar and transports out and claims her as his new wife. It's amusing to me that I never here these soy lefty actors winging about that aspect.
As everyone else has pointed out it's an embarrassingly shitty episode but not because of the "stereotypes" but because it is poorly written and frankly kind of boring. But no one seemed to have a problem with the episode of Irish-Aliens that were transported on the Enterprise to a new colony...where the men are all drunks and they are kept in the cargo bay sleeping in piles of hay next to their livestock. I wonder why that doesn't raise any of these performative activist's ire?
That's the one with Tasha fighting the alien's queen with a poison glove, right?
Yeah. If he wanted it banned because it was a shitty episode (one of, if not the single, worst episodes of TNG ever) that would have some validity.
And why not Angel One which was just as bad of an episode? Oh, THAT kind of racial and sexual stereotyping is OK?
I have thankfully forgotten 95% of that episode.
Yeah.
Yeah, that'll probably be my take on it. Tribal savages aesthetic has always looked ridiculous to me. Were they even space-faring? I can't even recall why they made contact in the first place.
Except they weren't "Tribal Savages". But it's what people take away from their conditioned appearance (Black people in African garb who don't espouse leftist platitudes = savages = racial stereotypes) But that's NOT what the writing said, it's not how the characters acted. Replace them with Vulcans and you almost had a variation of Amok Time. Replace them with Romulans and you almost had a variation of Balance of Power. Or just replace them with pointy headed Klingons and you'd have any one of a dozen episodes. Replace them with wypipo and you have a viking allegory.
I claim it's the casting itself that makes Frakes (and many leftists) ashamed and virtue signaling and I think that exposes their own racism.