I <3 RP'ers

[tanithryudo]

Seriously, some most of the people who rant and froth on the forums of any game can stand to chill a little. Maybe take after this guy.

Also, to all those bigots (anthro-centric?) people ranting about how we've always had a human captain of the Enterprise...

1. Capt. Spock (Ent-1701 in STII while it was stationed at the SF Academy)
2. Capt. Data (Ent-E in the ST Reboot prequel comics which are officially canon)

People who claim they don't "count" as non-human need to be suffocated under a mountain of tribbles.

Personally, I have no problems with a non-human captain of the Ent-F. As long as they have not officially killed off Data (again), which they haven't, it's all good. (My head-canon is now that the Ent-E was decommissioned and Data retired from Starfleet to be a professor at Cambridge or something like in that future AU in "All Good Things").

Comments

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

I followed none of that. However, wasn't Spock also captain in the 2009 Trek Reboot?

And does it not strike anyone as weird that an intergalactic federation would have only humans as captains? Doesn't that strike of fantastical racism? (Hell, better yet, why are the majority of high ranking officers humans?)

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

I mean the official rank and position of captain. In the reboot, Spock was only acting captain after Pike got nabbed, IIRC.

Well, on the show that's mostly a budget issue. They have to pay to put funny foreheads/skin-paint/neck-pieces onto the aliens, ya know. After the main cast and the alien of the week, they really don't have enough money left over for the one-shot other Starfleet ships/personnel that occasionally show up. In the expanded canon (comics, later "official" books, etc.) there are more non-human captains and crew in SF.

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Okay, it's good to know they addressed this problem in the expanded canon. Although would it be that hard to handwavey and say the aliens look exactly like humans but are still aliens? Aren't betazoids something that look really, really human except for not having pupils or something? Anyway, just sayin' there are cheap ways to work in more aliens without shelling out too much more money for make up.

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

Yeah but it's not like they ever explicitly say all the human-looking guest minor chars are human or not so you can assume otherwise