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Shocking moments - Star Trek 31 Day Challenge
Shocking I agree, but also all you’ve mentioned were very questionable writing choices.
All of those were main character deaths to make a point that danger is real. ‘For the drama!’ seems to be the plea from the creative side.
I really don’t like them as a viewer and don’t need to see beloved characters die in horrific circumstances to believe danger is real. There are other tools in a writers kit that can create tension and suspense.
One gets the sense that writers find them very exciting to use, but Star Trek seems to have done badly with these.
Picard’s use of these deaths is one of the things that I deeply dislike about the show. They burned two youth-perspective characters (Hugh and Icheb) which was enough to put our teen kids off new live action Star Trek for a while.
In fact, I would say that the franchise has showed a weakness in commitment to its principles of diversity by almost always killing off a representation character, even if they are sometimes revived.
The fact that two of the strong women main cast characters of the 90s shows were killed off due to offscreen misogyny makes it all the worse. But I have to ask why is strong women, youth, gay, and disabled representation characters that are considered permanently sacrifice-able for the shock value.
- Tasha Yar
- Jadzia Dax
- Hugh Culber
- Icheb
-Hugh
-Hemmer
Spock and Trip would be the exceptions.
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