Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:20:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <20240415142040.00007dd6@example.com> References: <20240412175429.000005c9@example.com> <2011618079.734663562.950518.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1676575209.734671197.667787.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1606819505.734744737.145729.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:20:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4f18148a75f9f5bfab5544256221bdb6"; logging-data="439219"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yQNYG6zC6JkM+BDKdUowir19f3nuR9tU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:XyTo/fNFNybigxVzQPKuhzSK7jE= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240415-4, 4/15/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 3248 On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:49:23 -0700 anim8rfsk wrote: > The Horny Goat wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:24:57 -0700, anim8rfsk > > wrote: > > =20 > >>> Do they not understand one of the key tenets of science is to > >>> discover the truth of how things work and what goes into it. > >>> Starting off with a black woman in a Santa Claus beard pretending > >>> to be da Vinci doesn't sound like any sort of truth I'm aware of. > >>> =20 > >>=20 > >> Well, it gets their pictures in the paper. I haven=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=99t = been back > >> since they pulled that little stunt not even when they had the > >> traveling Star Trek exhibit. > >> =20 > > Strange - I always thought one of the main reasons for the Klingons > > in Star Trek was to ensure black actors always got lots of work - > > and in later shows beyond TOS enough of the Klingons were 'good > > guys' that the 1960s / 70s ancestors of the current DIE crowd were > > happy.=20 >=20 > No. That=E2=80=99s a lie told by total retard Michael Dorn (Worf) who says > that the reason for Klingons is so they could hire black actors with > nobody knowing. Klingons had been being played by non-black actors > for decades, before somebody hired Dorn. >=20 Correct! Having recently rewatched nearly every episode of ST:TOS recently - I skipped the really awful ones - it's blindingly obvious that every one of the people playing the Klingon commanders (and every lesser Klingon that I can recall too) was white.=20 Now, there *might* be some truth to the idea that later Star Treks used more black actors as Klingons so that they could increase their count of black actors; I really couldn't say about that.=20 --=20 Rhino