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♂ why do you think they went with another male captain? ♂

i was thinking about the enterprise F in game and captain shon and i was wondering.

the "F" would be the 8th ship named enterprise. we know the "C" had a female captain.

so that means only 1 female captain out of 8 ships named enterprise.

why do you think they decided to go with another male captain for the enterprise F?

and as a bonus question why do you think they went with a male captain for the new show discovery?

so far every show but voyager has had a male captain, and they decided to do another one.

nothing wrong with it just wonderinngg what other people think.
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  • lapprenticellapprenticel Member Posts: 254 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    How about the military is male dominated, and males are the dominant group interested in military things? Sure you could have a female captain but is that as realistic or as interesting? Yes there's exceptions obviously but much simpler going 'traditional'. Having a non-human captain of course is somewhat different.

    As for your bonus question, have they confirmed the ST:D captain is male? The only captain's name I've heard was female - possibly a different ship though. Given the ideology being pushed by those behind the show it may be interesting to know why if they do indeed go with a permanent male captain.
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    I believe they drew inspiration from Shran when creating Shon, and made him male specifically for that reason. As for Discovery, idk, but they got an awesome actor for the part which is all I really care about. However, given that the main focus will supposedly be on the female first officer rather than the Captain, I wouldn't be surprised if she took command in a later season.
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    Uh how do you know there was only one female captain of an Enterprise when we've only seen five of them? Two which were captained by the same man because he crashed the ship. We never saw Enterprise G-I.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    Because Discovery already has a female lead.
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,101 Arc User
    The J has a female Dax as it's Captain.
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  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,196 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    And why was Shon the only alien to Captain an Enterprise-named ship?
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    avoozuul wrote: »
    And why was Shon the only alien to Captain an Enterprise-named ship?

    Technically, I believe Spock was captain of the Enterprise when TWOK started.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    Yet Another White Male Human captain. Yawn.

    Get creative for Prophets' sake, the Federation is more than just humans, and humans are more than just Caucasians with mismatched chromosomes.
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  • intraventianintraventian Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    Clearly this is the work of mustache-twirling misogynists in a secluded secret base trying once again to oppress women everywhere.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2017
    Maybe they they just picked an actor they liked and that's the be all end all of it?

    Edit: Almost missed this...
    How about the military is male dominated, and males are the dominant group interested in military things? Sure you could have a female captain but is that as realistic or as interesting? Yes there's exceptions obviously but much simpler going 'traditional'. Having a non-human captain of course is somewhat different.

    Starfleet isn't a military and it's certainly not male dominated (excluding TOS and it's no female captains rule later retconed out). It seemed that by late TNG and most of DS9 that the writers seemed to be acting on a form of sexblind casting for characters, so you'd even get situations where disposable mooks were female which is rare on TV, especially in Sc-Fi.​​
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    Yet Another White Male Human captain. Yawn.

    Get creative for Prophets' sake, the Federation is more than just humans, and humans are more than just Caucasians with mismatched chromosomes.

    That's racist and sexist. You judge a character on their merits, not on their race or sex. That's being a decent human 101. You know nothing about the character yet to be able to dismiss them.
    If you mean you're board with seeing white males everywhere then you're in the wrong franchise. After TOS it seems Star Trek realised there was a world outside of the US and it shows.
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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,758 Arc User
    Cuz we're men. We're men in tights. We roam around the forest looking for fights.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    As long as she's not Bajoran who cares

    Also Jason Issac is not the main star of the Show I Believe a female is the lead character, and Jason Issac will probably be on the ship while the Female Commander does all the work...like how Riker did for Picard.


    Also Brits are amazing and I love Jason Issac, and i could careless what gender or race someone is (except Bajorans), that's the whole point of Trek is not to focus on such trivial things, it's who can do a better job at whatever, and Jason Issac is awesome...hopefully he has better luck then he did in Event horizon
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  • k20vteck20vtec Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    interview with Harry Kim, apperently there were death threats sent to the production coz Janway was a woman.

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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    artan42 wrote: »
    That's racist and sexist.
    *looks down at white cis-male English-Welsh-Scots-Dutch Protestant American self in confusion*
    artan42 wrote: »
    You judge a character on their merits, not on their race or sex. That's being a decent human 101. You know nothing about the character yet to be able to dismiss them.
    If you mean you're board with seeing white males everywhere then you're in the wrong franchise. After TOS it seems Star Trek realised there was a world outside of the US and it shows.
    You misunderstand me. While me wanting more protagonists of color in fiction is a factor (yes, I'm aware the series is supposedly going to focus on Sonequa Martin-Green as first officer, but given they already tried that format with Riker I question whether that will last), the main reason I object to it is that the majority of Earth's population is not white. For that matter, the way things are going that will be true just in North America within a couple of decades. So a setting purporting to represent Earth's future ought to have more color in it for realism's sake.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,360 Arc User
    The captain isn't the lead character, Starsword. The lead's female; further, if certain speculations are correct, the captain might have to be male because it might be Garth of Izar. (If they aren't, then it's probably completely unimportant what the gender of the captain is, so fifty-fifty, why not a man?)

    As for Capt. Shon, he's Andorian, and I think STO's gone with the soft canon that Andorians have four genders, so is "he" male? Does the term even apply?
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    starswordc wrote: »
    *looks down at white cis-male English-Welsh-Scots-Dutch Protestant American self in confusion*

    Sexism, discrimination based upon sex. Racism, discrimination based upon race or ethnicity. I see no side notes about needing to be of the opposite sex/race to discriminate based on those characteristics.
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    ...the main reason I object to it is that the majority of Earth's population is not white. For that matter, the way things are going that will be true just in North America within a couple of decades. So a setting purporting to represent Earth's future ought to have more color in it for realism's sake.

    You don't know what the rest of the crew will consist of. For all you know it will be two thirds Chinese as in real life. Also, my your logic we've got a ethnic minority as captain in that case.

    Trying to apply current race/ethnic debate to the future is pointless. It's far more likely we'll all just be some sort of beige or brown in a few hundred years. The problem with futurism is you cannot predict it due to the patterns by which humans procreate being unpredictable. They might not even be any Chinese people in 200 years and the Māori may be the most populous group for all we know.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    I think the big deal for the Enterprise F was that it was a non-human Captain, which no Enterprise had so far. (Except perhaps temporarily.) It's not a big deal for us, because we know it's either a human with a mask, or a bunch of virtual pixels, but it seems kinda important to remind us that the Federation is not actually supposed to be just a human-fan-club.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    (hit "post" too soon, will retry)
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    @jonsills: As I explained already, I'm fully aware that the original plan for the show was to have the XO be the protagonist, I'm simply skeptical of how long that will last, for several reasons.

    1. They tried that format once already: Riker, not Picard, was supposed to be the primary viewpoint character of TNG, but it didn't last the first season. Star Trek is traditionally captain-centric. I expect viewers and the camera are going to pay more attention to the guy in center chair than the XO standing off to the side.

    2. According to some of the leaks, there's already been executive meddling worthy of Fox and Firefly. Bryan Fuller didn't quit, Les Moonves fired him for daring to complain that the fanbase wouldn't like the changes Moonves is insisting on, e.g. the new Klingons and ignoring canon set by TOS. That doesn't bode well for Fuller's intent to focus on Commander Rainsford.
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    For the love of... Can we NOT turn the STO forums into an SJW circle jerk? I get enough of that junk on FB and twitter.
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  • mhall85mhall85 Member Posts: 2,852 Arc User1
    See, this is why Nick Meyer may be right about fans not REALLY knowing what they want to see...

    Most fans seems to be viewing Discovery through an old paradigm. We're so conditioned to gravitate towards the captain of a single ship. While Issacs will be playing the captain of the title ship, Discovery will not be about Issacs' character. Shoot, we could be following THREE ships instead of one, so one could argue that Discovery won't even be about the USS Discovery (at least, exclusively).

    How about we reserve judgement until we actually see the show?

    We could be watching something more akin to "Lower Decks: The Series" than a classic 7-person cast with captain as lead. It could be quite refreshing.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Really? Didn't take me long to figure it out, just looking at his head shot on the news articles.
    Yeah, I am sold on the show, already...at least, more interested in watching the pilot program. ;)
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    starswordc wrote: »
    Yet Another White Male Human captain. Yawn.

    Get creative for Prophets' sake, the Federation is more than just humans, and humans are more than just Caucasians with mismatched chromosomes.

    Doesn't Star Trek: Discovery take place 10 years before TOS? Having a non-human Starfleet Captain in that setting would feel weird considering that Starfleet crews in the TV series have been predominately human. You can't have Starfleet crews with a bunch of aliens, then have a Starfleet crew 10 years later with a token alien.

    However, it feels like Star Trek: Discovery will not have a main crew, but will focus on a number of crews with maybe a couple of alien crews.
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