Is Discovery, because Discovery is dope and I love it. But since studios are back in the habit of making Star Trek series, here’s my suggestion:
DO A SERIES ABOUT THE MAQUIS
To build a lil hype, see if the actors who played Chakotay, Torres or Ro Laren are down to do some cameos. They would probably be captains or admirals at this point, almost 20 years after the events of Voyager. They could even give Captain Worf some shine in a crossover episode.
The Maquis of course would be the independent state based around something like 4 or 5 class-M planets located between Cardassian and Federation space, the former “Demilitarized Zone”. TNG and DS9 characterized these planets as having been uninhabited until people from Native American tribes moved there to preserve their cultures. The story goes, after being jerked around by the Federation and terrorized by the Cardassians, the Maquis was formed to resist Cardassian occupation.
Given who these planets are mostly inhabited by, it would be impossible to do it justice without an Indigenous writing staff.
Special request from me if somehow, something like this does get made: no white actors unless they’re playing Cardassians.
Did he not feel pai-i-i-i-in when he was hur-r-r-r-t? I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, did he not shit? Did he not drerdg? He was only human, but yes he was chicken and waffles. And I fail to believe that the world can profit from a man’s dick.
speaking as a Software Developer I can confirm this
i’ve been sitting here for like 5 minutes trying to think of a caption but i absolutely cannot think of anything funnier than this collection of images
Okay I’m only gonna say this once and preface this with the fact that I am Eyak and I probably do not want to hear your opinion on the Pharah skins Raindancer/Thunderbird. This is a really soul baring post so I’m not so sure about people reblogging it, if you do just try to be respective and remember this isn’t a go-ahead to go and appropriate all native cultures.
They’re pretty damn clearly based on Pacific Northwest tribal cultures. The ones I can pick out being Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian, but we often get grouped together so that doesn’t surprise me. There are many more, but I don’t claim familiarity with all tribes and I can’t say if their art styles and myths were used.
For your comparison a little sample of the tribe’s artistic styles just to get the point across:
And I really have to get something off my chest people. I don’t have a problem with these skins, in fact I adore them. Please just chill with me for a second while I explain.
The biggest issue I see here is people (who usually arn’t ndn, let alone from pac nw tribes) yelling about cultural appropriation. Which good! I’m glad people are on guard for it! But it’s entirely possible that Pharah’s father was Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian or from another closely related Pacific Northwest tribe, so we can’t really call that yet. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was.
Most importantly, speaking as an Eyak. Which is all I can do despite Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian being so closely related, our tribe’s relationship with cultural appropriation is uh, not exactly the norm.
The last Eyak fluent speaker died in 2008, her name was Chief Marie Smith Jones and she was also the last full-blooded Eyak on Earth. The very last. Please appreciate Eyak culture. It’s the only way it’s going to survive. There’s less than 500 of us remaining, and we’re scattered more and more every year. Families I grew up with in Alaska converted to Catholicism. The military took my family across the globe and left us an entire continent away. The language I learned at the dinner table in 1998 now almost exclusively exists on those cassette tapes my white father recorded that night and in reconstructive attempts from a French academic that studied our language from halfway across the globe.
It sucks shit guys, it really does.
When I first saw the Thunderbird skin I cried, I cried for an hour. Because Overwatch is huge. It will live on for years if not decades. And there’s Pharah with her hair in braids I haven’t seen my mother wear in over a decade. Wearing the colors that remind me of a home I no longer have. Embodying a mythic figure that I trusted to protect me during Y2K and sought out constellations in the sky for.
So before you spew vitriol about how racist it is that they did that. Just kind of chill out and think about different perspectives for a moment. If you really want to help us? Consider taking a poke about http://www.eyakpeople.com/ and taking a look at our language revitalization project! It’s pretty fun and you could even learn a language out of it.
