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May. 7th, 2021 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn*eyes Nicholas Meyer suspiciously*
Watched about an hour of Wrath of Khan last night, then went to Memory Alpha to see what info they had on the official excuse for Khan recognizing Chekov. Meyer had this explanation that amounted to 'bla bla bla Conan Doyle forgot continuity too bla bla yeah I probably could've put Uhura on the Reliant just as easily but I didn't bla bla it works so what are you complaining about'.
Look, was it because she was a woman or because she was black? Because the explanation is one of those non-explanations that's really basically an excuse for 'I didn't want to put a female character through something painful and awful and nasty because hurting women on screen is bad somehow', or else for '... well, I wanted to use a specific black actor for the captain and putting two black people in high command positions would've looked exceedingly weird and anyway someone would've given me flack for all two of the prominent black characters in the movie being subjected to Very Bad Things'.
(Personally I like Walter Koenig's answer to the question. At conventions, he tells people that Chekov was on the Enterprise during Space Seed, and that his one encounter with Khan involved Chekov making Khan wait for the bathroom for so long that Khan was furious with him when he emerged, thereby guaranteeing that Khan would remember Chekov as somebody who had wronged him.)
Watched about an hour of Wrath of Khan last night, then went to Memory Alpha to see what info they had on the official excuse for Khan recognizing Chekov. Meyer had this explanation that amounted to 'bla bla bla Conan Doyle forgot continuity too bla bla yeah I probably could've put Uhura on the Reliant just as easily but I didn't bla bla it works so what are you complaining about'.
Look, was it because she was a woman or because she was black? Because the explanation is one of those non-explanations that's really basically an excuse for 'I didn't want to put a female character through something painful and awful and nasty because hurting women on screen is bad somehow', or else for '... well, I wanted to use a specific black actor for the captain and putting two black people in high command positions would've looked exceedingly weird and anyway someone would've given me flack for all two of the prominent black characters in the movie being subjected to Very Bad Things'.
(Personally I like Walter Koenig's answer to the question. At conventions, he tells people that Chekov was on the Enterprise during Space Seed, and that his one encounter with Khan involved Chekov making Khan wait for the bathroom for so long that Khan was furious with him when he emerged, thereby guaranteeing that Khan would remember Chekov as somebody who had wronged him.)
