In the 8th episode of Discovery, the teaser featured archival footage from The Cage, including a quick shot of the bridge with Number One.
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That uniform certainly would’ve put a different spin on “The Riker Maneuver.” 
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Only if he was ‘going commando’ underneath…
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Indeed it is important to note the distinction between fiction and reality when it comes to polyamory. It isn’t something people should play pretend at. No one should have to pretend that they are in a monoamorous relationship if that’s what they want to be in. No one should pretend that they are in a polyamorous relationship if not everybody is fully on board.
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I missed Reading Rainbow (I’m old), but LeVar Burton was pretty well known from Roots.
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True enough, but Roots was before my personal time; I was only two when it came out.
For me, my intro to Mr. Burton was RR.
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Babylon 5 is the first genre show that I know about which really had a multi season arc mapped out from inception. I didn’t catch DS9 until it was rerun daily on H&I channel. B5 did the wartime arc better.
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The Cage was the pilot episode. And in the pilot, they had dialog like:
CAPT PIKE: Yeoman.
YEOMAN COLT: Yes, sir.
PIKE: I thought I told you that when I’m on the bridge–
COLT: But you wanted the reports by oh five hundred. It’s oh five hundred now, sir.
PIKE: Oh, I see. Thank you.
NUMBER ONE/LIEUTENANT: She’s replacing your former yeoman, sir.
PIKE: She does a good job, all right. It’s just that I can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge. No offence, Lieutenant. You’re different, of course.
Number One, the first officer, is a woman, which is evidently unusual. As is Pike having a female assistant (yeoman) on the bridge. And the only way Roddenberry could conceive of a woman having a command position as she had was to make her almost as sexless, humorless, and robotic as Spock himself.
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It’s perverse how the Right gives themselves wedgies over “canceling”.
I guess we need to just flood the culture with dehumanizing Italian and Irish and Catholic/Popish stereotypes from the 1900s? Would that help?
Also, throw in some current-day dehumanizing portraits of evangelicals. Oh, but then they’d whine about how they were being discriminated against.
I just dont understand how you can be an adult and go to CPAC and continue to say you are a Republican (while still claiming to be an adult). Republicans are (and have been) the party of adolescent children and cynical, manipulative autocrats.
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Is that you, Betty from the Celtic Way in Asheville?
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This is entirely true, I meant “okay with” more in the sense of she didn’t divorce him and spoke fondly of him until her death - so either she approved of it, accepted it but didn’t like it, or didn’t like it but never spoke of it publicly.
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LeVar Burton has already been a target of the right-wing Twitter outrage machine, after they mistook him for businessman and former athlete LaVar Ball (who had a feud with Trump related to Ball’s son being arrested for shoplifting in China).
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I walked past him once at a comic-con and I said it was good to see him and he said it was good to see me too. It is one of my favourite celebrity encounters.
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Also, you gotta love that Burton did this to balance Lance Reddick’s “I wish I were Levar Burton” bit on Eric Andre
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He did. What is really impactful about how LeVar addresses Dr Seuss is that he acknowledges his flaws, but still sees the humanity in his works. At some point an artist can choose to grow and embrace their better self or double-down and burn their legacy to the ground like Cosby did. I’m not sure that Henson ever explicitly addressed his past skits, but he certainly embraced his better self as he grew.
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When it came to condescension toward women Pike still had nothing on Kirk & Company, who had lines like this:
“Mister Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That’s the only planet in this galaxy that can make that claim.” —Kirk, to Spock
“If I touch you again, Your Glory, it’ll be to administer an ancient Earth custom called a spanking.” —Kirk, in his capacity as a galactic ambassador
“On the other hand, she’s a woman. All woman. One day she’ll find the right man and off she’ll go, out of the service.” —McCoy, to Kirk
In the final episode of TOS it’s even explicitly stated that women can’t be starfleet captains as a matter of policy, apparently because they “can’t control their emotions.”
So the gender roles depicted in the original pilot were still more progressive than what the show eventually became.
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Looking at comments from conservatives, they clearly don’t know which books were removed from print, and can’ name more than two Dr. Suess books in the first place.
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It’s not exactly the same but in the episode Starship Mine (Captain Picard takes on thieves trying to steal waste from the Enterprise while it’s being cleaned of $PARTICLE_OF_THE_WEEK) the side story deals with LaForge and several other members of the main crew being held hostage. They modify the VISOR to emit a “hypersonic pulse” to knock everyone except Data unconscious.
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Now there’s a thought.
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The VERY SAME Fox Hate Media Outrage Machine that lost its mind over the message in The Lorax.
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