Now that I see Kestra in-game...
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I'm even more uncomfortable at children being included in the game. Please stop this.
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I am curious why. Can you elaborate so we can understand your position? She is in the trek show.
And she does perform a useful role in helping Picard. Even if it was a bit like Wesley Crusher.
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It's because she is a she!!!!!
That's sexist.....
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Or one of those things where people are automatically dismissive of what others think and feel without knowing their life, experiences, or perspective?
For me, it makes me uncomfortable because child soldiers are a very real problem in this world and so using an image of a child to engage in a space battle feels a bit wrong.
As pointed out, she's around the same age as Jake/Nog/Wesley were when they were first introduced, and knowing that lessens it a little bit, but it also feels different for those three because we saw them grow and got to know them as adults.
I can't say I'm offended by it, but it isn't a trend I would like to see continue either.
Also, Kestra Troi-Riker is played by actress Lulu Wilson. She has a new movie out called Becky, where she goes up against a skinhead leader played by Kevin James. It is not a comedy. Repeat, not a comedy. Very hard R, in fact. A gory Home Alone. I won't be seeing it because it makes me uncomfortable.
Having her character appear in a fun Star Trek spaceship and collectible game? I'm comfortable with that.
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It's hard to understand OP's perspective when they give no details as to its basis.
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All teenagers in this game were 1 or 2 stars until now.
She should be a funny two star character.
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It is sort of amazing they're still doing that in the future. But at that point, with all the current name hyphenations we have now, they probably should have descendants that have surnames made up of something like 36 ancestors.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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This thought occured to me too. Did Tom's and B'Elanna's child have a hyphenated last name? When the child eventually grows up and chooses a mate, do they also have to narrow it down to one family name? Maybe there's some futuristic process for streamlining.
There's also Chakotay, but most characters do have last names.
Or maybe they just do the "couple name" thing that's so popular nowadays. Although "Triker" does admittedly sound a bit silly.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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That said, saying you’re uncomfortable without giving some indication as to why doesn’t leave much room for discussion.
Products that will still exist but without the racist names and figures. Countless lives lost, destroyed, and damaged by slavery and racism but what bothers you is that you will have to learn new names for a couple grocery items?
Nancy Green. She was the original Aunt Jemima. Born into slavery, rose to be a model on a product label.
The Aunt Jemima concept is based on the Mammy/happy slave image, and IIRC, wasn't there a court case as Nancy Green (and others) were royally screwed over?
Can't say it's a shame that revisionist caricatures, originally designed to to paint over the horrors of slavery with a pleasant fiction, will be disappearing. It's the 21st century after all, they don't belong.
Sticking my Spock ears on for a moment, it's going to be interesting how things play out - all civilisations are built upon slavery, we're the first to face our history in this way, and it's the kind of thing that's existential.
We've built a myth of how good we are, and a history replete with the skulls we've crushed to get here doesn't fit that narrative very well. I'm hoping we come out the other side as a better society, more equal and tolerant, but I'm not betting on it.
As far as children in games go, having Kestra facing an image of, say, Gangster Spock in gauntlet and shaking when they crit is very, very mild comparatively. Now, if you're uncomfortable by all those sorts of games, that's fine. But in terms of where STT including child characters sits in the industry, I imagine the majority of players wouldn't have an issue.
When I think of Naomi Wildman, I don't think of her as an adult in 'Shattered', I think of her playing Kadis-kot with Seven as a kid. Or Alexander saying "Ha! It's my laughing hour. Ha! Ha! The Higher the Fewer." while Worf is trying to get him to eat dinner. Those are the characters I want to see in game.