• JelloBrains@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Frakes recently renewed his call for the episode “Code of Honor” from season 1 to be completely removed from reruns, home video, and steaming platforms. He made the call in the past. So while they might not ever remove it, some people would like it to be removed.

    “But I was told or I was under the impression that it had rubbed so many people the wrong way that it was pulled. I think they should take it out of the rotation. I think it is a great time to make that kind of – as small as it is – to make that kind of a statement would be fabulous.”

    Also, I just realized I posted this on the completely wrong article that I thought I was, I thought I was posting to a different topic about Frakes’ request to remove the episode after finding out it was on Paramount’s streaming service.

    • shoggoth@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      which episode was that? pulling it is a dumb decision. just put the damn thing in context. i’m not going to pretend I didn’t do something stupid decades ago just to try to look good now. people (and franchises) grow and change.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Code of Honour

        A.k.a “Dark men from Space Africa steal our white women”

        In fairness, apparently when the episode was first pitched, they wanted the alien race to be reptiles, but it was subsequently changed to just be black people wearing tribal African clothing.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Ah, thanks for the info. I’m here from all and have never watched any trek but I have been considering giving TOS a try out of curiosity.