I'm amazed at how bizarre the fandom reactions are. Wait, why am I amazed? Fandom loves to bash to others favorite characters and ships, whine when they don't their own way in a story, bash others shows, get all huffy and self-righteous when someone bashes theirs. Doesn't matter which one. Also this obnoxious behavior as far as I can is not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, age, or nationality. I've met trolls of all creeds. LOL!
Anywho thanks for posting the video. I thought I had imagined it for a bit there. Uhura - it should be noted is one of my favorite characters, but she was underutilized in the series, had more to do in some of the movies (she has a great scene in either Search for Spock or the Voyage Home and Nichols is amazing), and was pretty good in the cartoon (which she did the voice for, I believe). I actually liked her and Spock together and I liked her in the movie - although I think Nichols performs the role better than the current actress but that's a subjective preference.
Don't understand the Mary Sue complaints? Uhura was a linguist who specialized in dialects, particularly Romulain and Vulcan. She was the communications specialist. In later series - I believe they had her filled by Troy (in TNG). She wasn't good at other things - just translating and interpreting communications. It's not like she was skilled at hand to hand combat. And how is she any different than Sulu or Chekof? In some respects the original characters were less Mary Suish than latter ones were - such as Seven of Nine - who could literally do everything. Although I never thought she was.
Sci-Fantasy Fandom has always bewildered me. I adore sci-fantasy, but I have a cranky relationship with the whole fandom thing. I just have no tolerance for all the bashing.
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Also this obnoxious behavior as far as I can is not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, age, or nationality. I've met trolls of all creeds. LOL!
Anywho thanks for posting the video. I thought I had imagined it for a bit there. Uhura - it should be noted is one of my favorite characters, but she was underutilized in the series, had more to do in some of the movies (she has a great scene in either Search for Spock or the Voyage Home and Nichols is amazing), and was pretty good in the cartoon (which she did the voice for, I believe). I actually liked her and Spock together and I liked her in the movie - although I think Nichols performs the role better than the current actress but that's a subjective preference.
Don't understand the Mary Sue complaints? Uhura was a linguist who specialized in dialects, particularly Romulain and Vulcan.
She was the communications specialist. In later series - I believe they had her filled by Troy (in TNG). She wasn't good at other things - just translating and interpreting communications. It's not like she was skilled at hand to hand combat. And how is she any different than Sulu or Chekof?
In some respects the original characters were less Mary Suish than latter ones were - such as Seven of Nine - who could literally do everything. Although I never thought she was.
Sci-Fantasy Fandom has always bewildered me. I adore sci-fantasy, but I have a cranky relationship with the whole fandom thing. I just have no tolerance for all the bashing.