Race, Gender and Politics in Star Trek by Sal Creber

A third person called Yeoh “a reject from a overseas customer-support line.” A fourth dubbed the show “Star Trek: Feminist Lesbian Edition.” “Is everything going to have to have females in every fucking thing?” another asked. “Where is the alpha male that has balls and doesn’t take crap from anyone?” one asked. Many commenters, though, were clearly appalled by the absence of white men in command positions. Very quickly, the comments section was filled with garden-variety Trekkie gripes-the Klingons looked weird, there was too much lens flare, the dialogue was hammy, the uniforms were non-canonical. It opens with a conversation between the two lead characters, a starship captain and her first officer, played by Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green, both women of color.

The commotion began last week, when the show’s trailer first appeared on YouTube. Don't try this.This being the United States in 2017, Internet trolls are accusing “Star Trek: Discovery,” the newest incarnation of the sci-fi franchise, due to début on television in the fall, of white genocide. If you want to read a good book about gender in Star Trek, - and especially if you would like to see an actually good criticism of Picard as a character and the institutions he represents - try Robin Roberts' Sexual Generations. (Could've been an interesting reading of Picard and Shinzon, too, since Greven touches on it a little with his 'total top'/'unruly bottom' dichotomy, but oh fucking well.) Every other bit of analysis in this book is pretty solidly weak as well, and, in a personal gripe - you're going to write an entire book about reading queerness into Star Trek, and then insist the entire time that Picard is solely a representation of 'white heteromasculinity'? Okay, dude, sure, but he's gay. It's literally just morally reprehensible to make the claim that the rape of a woman in her marital bed is disrupting an institution of heterosexuality or 'claiming a queer voice' or what the fuck ever, and it really shows how willing male queer theorists are to put queerness and maleness over women's real traumas and experiences.

Greven is literally smoking fucking dick.

Race, Gender and Politics in Star Trek by Sal Creber