{"id":92665,"date":"2019-01-24T00:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=92665\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T23:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:58:36","slug":"star-trek-discoverys-mansplaining-takedown-returns-series-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/blog-el\/phivos-piompinos\/star-trek-discoverys-mansplaining-takedown-returns-series-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Discovery\u2019s mansplaining takedown returns to the series\u2019 roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yFtLO7\"><em><strong>Warning: spoilers ahead for season 1 of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery<\/strong><em><strong>, and for the season 2 premiere episode, \u201cBrother.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"yV7s18\">When\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/17\/15653976\/star-trek-discovery-trailers-commentary-updates-CBS-all-access\"><em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em><\/a>\u00a0returned for its second season last week, it came with an insurance plan and a risk.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kX3iG2\">First, the premiere episode, \u201cBrother,\u201d welcomed Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), the captain who helmed the original series\u2019 USS Enterprise in its rejected initial 1965 pilot, before<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to create a new pilot with the now-iconic James T. Kirk in the chair. Whatever grumblings Trekkies may have had about the bald fan-service decision to bring Pike and his first officer, the also-iconic Vulcan Spock, into the picture at the end of season 1, it was an inevitability. As the first new\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0series in over a decade,\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/6\/16604190\/star-trek-discovery-science-fiction-stories-afraid-of-the-future\">grounded itself in prequel territory<\/a>\u00a0from the get-go by revealing that its star, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), was Spock\u2019s adopted human sister. The move was meant, for better or worse, to put doubtful fans a bit more at ease by situating the series adjacent to a familiar canon.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4xVL3s\">But like the series\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/2\/13\/17005524\/star-trek-discovery-season-finale-look-back\">controversial first season<\/a>, the new episode also featured a pretty direct left turn. Bucking the time-honored\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0trope of selecting a \u201credshirt\u201d (a low-ranking, generic officer) to be the sole casualty of the first Starfleet away mission of the season,\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>instead chose to off a smug, insecure white male science officer \u2014 mid-mansplain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dry4Tu\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"GUaPG3\">The move was heavy-handed. It\u2019s made clear from the moment he appears on the transformer pad that this Lieutenant Connolly, barging into the story where fans expected Spock, is kind of a douchebag \u2014 more Winklevoss than Vulcan. At every opportunity, he negs Burnham\u2019s suggestions and hypotheses about the mysterious red signals that have appeared across the galaxy. Then, when the team deploys in a set of explorer pods to navigate an unpredictable asteroid cluster, he presumes he knows the vehicles better than her, even though she was the original test pilot for the pods. When she warns him about the way he\u2019s navigating, he starts loudly telling her why she\u2019s wrong \u2014 and in the middle of his explanation, a rogue asteroid runs sidelong into his pod, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TrXYIH\">Given that we barely heard a word from the mission\u2019s female redshirt \u2014 a dead giveaway, in previous\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>s, that a character is disposable and likely to be a goner \u2014 killing off Connolly is a starkly political choice.\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u2019s creators have been making decisions like this from the show\u2019s conceptualization. First, they steered away from the classic male-commander protagonist, by centering their show around a black female first officer who was court-martialed and stripped of her rank for treason. Second, they introduced the first gay couple in\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0history (Anthony Rapp as Lt. Paul Stamets and Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber). Third, they framed the series\u2019 only prominent straight white male (Jason Isaacs as Captain Gabriel Lorca) as a secret fascist, human supremacist villain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e-image\"><span class=\"e-image__inner\"><span class=\"e-image__image \" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg\"><picture class=\"c-picture\" data-cid=\"site\/picture_element-1548283378_6675_9447\" data-cdata=\"{&quot;asset_id&quot;:13706766,&quot;ratio&quot;:&quot;*&quot;}\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/GIvcj1SiszIwE__KxEdbxMydbcU=\/0x0:3000x2000\/320x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/Fndtu2-IrK5dRhcQBmVgV-r9Jvo=\/0x0:3000x2000\/520x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 520w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/0Kl_Icsxfwh6iZaAF4eZV1uKHD8=\/0x0:3000x2000\/720x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/wpgc3LnUd_8h_mISI3OjAA7wZvI=\/0x0:3000x2000\/920x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 920w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/4KBjI-LxFPuHdm65wALqjMmA5-E=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1120x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/dPggzawU8panzOa82O6RsjO-mR0=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1320x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/i4RjUz2fbpAB_qUbPHAt3r4vO1U=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1520x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/VCwfjZr3N0cUB4r1kNqrpBohVw0=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1720x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 1720w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/-vvcN3yWwtSjC50j-HkK_VJ9T-4=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1920x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg 1920w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1221px) 846px, (min-width: 880px) calc(100vw - 334px), 100vw\" \/><\/picture><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/Zb8M1WeE5fuD75ujFLqyhZ6wY0w=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1200x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706766\/112617_0006b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"UXBNZm\">And on top of everything else, the show frequently tosses in tiny, pointed nods to progressive politics. A subplot involving a resource-consuming technology prompts Burnham to deliver a mini lecture about conservation. An encounter with a xenophobic culture inspires some head shaking about the shortsightedness and weakness of homogeneity, and people who fear anyone who doesn\u2019t look like them. From its opening episodes,\u00a0<em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>\u00a0has been actively thumbing its nose at every social-media-bombing, Jordan Peterson-following crybaby whining about \u201cPC culture\u201d and \u201cthe war on masculinity,\u201d along with every talk show host bemoaning the aggressive push for diversity in pop culture.<\/p>\n<p id=\"I0W522\">But for any Trekkie worth their salt, this stance ought to come as no surprise, since openly progressive politics is a natural extension of what<em>\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0has literally existed to do from its 1960s inception. This cultural and political stance has been baked into the show since its opening lines: \u201cboldly going where no [one] has gone before\u201d is in the franchise\u2019s DNA. The whole point of\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0is \u2014 to quote Pike in the\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u00a0premiere \u2014 to \u201cmake a little noise, ruffle a few feathers,\u201d to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, by portraying a future in which so much of the oppression and injustice regularly committed in the current era was solved long ago. Whining about\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u2019s obvious stunting, or suggesting that it\u2019s too performatively \u201cwoke,\u201d is forgetting the show\u2019s history and its longtime intentions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wMWZdJ\">Part of the inevitable backlash from this dark corner of\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0fandom, of course, is generational. Many of today\u2019s Trekkies watched the original series (<em>TOS<\/em>) long after its initial run, and watched the series of the 1980s and 1990s \u2014\u00a0<em>The Next Generation<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Voyager<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 when they were decades younger, and thus likely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/mr-personality\/201410\/why-are-older-people-more-conservative\">more open-minded<\/a>than they might be today. Those experiences likely cemented these fans\u2019 ideas of what progressivism on television should look like: at the time, it still centered on straight, white, cisgendered men.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"e-image\"><span class=\"e-image__inner\"><span class=\"e-image__image \" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg\"><picture class=\"c-picture\" data-cid=\"site\/picture_element-1548283378_8305_9448\" data-cdata=\"{&quot;asset_id&quot;:13706825,&quot;ratio&quot;:&quot;*&quot;}\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/blxsI6M-16nFtOWYBSLFt10TmUw=\/0x0:3000x2046\/320x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/4dy7IzU1iV--Jcjipwgdt5b1uWA=\/0x0:3000x2046\/520x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 520w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/O4-rFjEzg1ba9MfRTLKnEtIpsWg=\/0x0:3000x2046\/720x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/nyOmkJZ9Yrfql91u_enUSY0NMXs=\/0x0:3000x2046\/920x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 920w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/bMmK35yawKvAkW4IvjJyjRcSU-4=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1120x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/ZIe-MwviHCxNp7VvOxVkOA1lEDc=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1320x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/RMuZrpOcrcoyhy8T6r6zavuDNEQ=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1520x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/nxhpf_24ly2ofeO0UCFScIeJEg4=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1720x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 1720w, https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/fR8nMbZH8ddusLmGWPBeo386S0w=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1920x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):format(webp):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg 1920w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1221px) 846px, (min-width: 880px) calc(100vw - 334px), 100vw\" \/><\/picture><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/Gs3so4pFC3crJIqLsoBiwNxdseo=\/0x0:3000x2046\/1200x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2046):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706825\/114008_0871b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"t03Jwc\">While\u00a0<em>Voyager<\/em>\u00a0featured a white woman as captain (Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway), and\u00a0<em>DS9<\/em>\u00a0a black man (Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko),\u00a0<em>TOS<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>TNG<\/em>\u00a0(and the much later\u00a0<em>Enterprise<\/em>) all featured heterosexual white men in the starring slots.\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tvs-first-interracial-kiss-star-896843\">progressivism<\/a>was instead often expressed in ways that were at the vanguard of popular sentiment, but not so far beyond it as to completely alienate conservative viewers \u2014 Ronald Reagan, for example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com\/that-time-ronald-reagan-visited-star-trek-the-next-gen-1746411231\">was reportedly a\u00a0<em>Next Generation<\/em>\u00a0fan<\/a>. (Although let\u2019s be real, he probably never saw\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/The_Outcast_(episode)\">\u201cThe Outcast.\u201d<\/a>) While Gene Roddenberry was alive, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2017\/9\/29\/16369692\/star-trek-history-fan-campaign-original-series-discovery\">famously had to fight<\/a>\u00a0Paramount and the networks for his more radical ideas, and he frequently lost those battles \u2014 for instance, when he tried to give the Enterprise a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_One_(Star_Trek)\">female first officer in 1966<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/05\/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters\/\">portray openly gay relationships<\/a>\u00a0in the 1980s. There were always limits to what\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0was allowed to do. The progressive, futurist elements that did get through defined these series for many of the fans who loved the shows \u2014 but for straight cis white men, a fundamental part of the story was their assured place at the forefront of the progress the shows were making.<\/p>\n<p id=\"P2SQei\">In this era, putting a black woman in that slot \u2014 and staffing\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u2019s bridge crew with mostly female officers \u2014 needed to be a given from day one. Fans of color, particularly women, have been increasingly vocal about their limited representation on-screen over the past decade, and not acknowledging that lack in a new<em>\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0show would have been the series\u2019 first obvious mistake, at least if the showrunners wanted to continue the franchise\u2019s traditional push toward a more inclusive, equitable future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/JmV8oWbJLllMv93kA28yV_ZynYU=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1200x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3000x2000):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13706773\/112617_6510b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"p1ER1o\">But the second-season premiere\u2019s blunt deconstruction of toxic white male masculinity is a much bigger step, and it could be a defining point for the show. Where\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>s past have modeled forceful but progressive expressions of masculinity in characters like Captain Picard or Captain Sisko, none have really interrogated the cost of condescension and entitlement like\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>\u00a0does with Connolly\u2019s abruptly karmic demise. Explorations of topics like this have always been relegated to gentler metaphor, through alien cultures like the Klingons\u2019 obsession with honor, or the Cardassians\u2019 imperialist fascism. But in 2019, when centuries of whiteness and maleness are being disrupted more publicly than ever before,\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>addressing it head-on puts the franchise, as a whole, right where it needs to be.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bHkx5t\">And it bears repeating, for the thousandth time: where\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0tends to go, so too does society. We all have hand-held communication devices and touchscreens now, but society has progressed so far toward the ideals of the original 1966\u00a0<em>Trek\u00a0<\/em>that what used to feel progressive and even overreaching now feels quaint and of its era. Mae Jemison, the first black American woman in space, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/9kzq7d\/the-legacy-of-mae-jemison-the-first-black-woman-to-travel-space\">specifically inspired<\/a>\u00a0to become an astronaut by Nichelle Nichols\u2019 presence on the first Enterprise\u2019s bridge, but her first flight was more than a quarter-century ago. There\u2019s still plenty of progress left to be made in practically every arena of representation and equality. But what American society has accomplished so far looks a lot like the\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>s\u2019 integrated, diversity-welcoming futures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-entry-content\">\n<p id=\"iQv0Gd\"><em>Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0has never been written for conservative snowflakes. It succeeds because it\u2019s made for those who need its vision to\u00a0<em>keep\u00a0<\/em>boldly going forward, to be heartened and find the strength to continue pushing for the kind of better future\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em>\u00a0imagines. As Eugene Roddenberry, Roddenberry\u2019s son and an executive producer on\u00a0<em>Discovery<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/05\/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters\/\">put it to me in 2013<\/a>: \u201c[<em>Star Trek<\/em>\u2019s inclusivity] is the only thing that [has] kept it alive. The whole geek \/ nerd \/ dork fan movement was a bunch of people who look at life differently. They\u2019re the ones who are leading the charge today, not just with\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>, but also, frankly, the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/1\/23\/18193247\/star-trek-discovery-season-2-premiere-mansplaining-progressive-politics-woke-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"formatter-datter\" class=\"u-hidden-text\" data-cid=\"site\/entry_formatter-1548283379_6785_9450\" data-cdata=\"{&quot;svg_hr_illustration&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: spoilers ahead for season 1 of\u00a0Star Trek: Discovery, and for the season 2 premiere episode, \u201cBrother.\u201d When\u00a0Star Trek: Discovery\u00a0returned for its second season last week, it came with an insurance plan and a risk. 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