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Star Trek : Voyager ’s Tom Paris doer Robert Duncan McNeill andStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Jadzia Dax actor Terry Farrell admit thatStar Trekshows of their era could have shown more cultural sensitiveness . Star Trekhas long been a bastion of societal awareness on video , and its attitudes towards multifariousness progressed further withStar Trek ’s first lead Black captain inDS9 ’s Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) , and first take distaff police captain inVoyager ’s Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) . With their lead , VoyagerandDS9were liberal for their time , but some ethnical detail fell through the cracks .
OnThe Delta Flyerspodcast , Harry Kim player Garrett Wangpoints outthe pronunciation ofDS9 ’s roadster Yangtze has been anglicize in the dialogue , and offer the correct Chinese pronunciation . Farrell utter regret that she ca n’t go back and do it over , and McNeill opine that modernStar TrekshowsStar Trek : DiscoveryandStar Trek : Strange New Worldsmight have shipway to extenuate pronunciation problem . say their quotes and mind toThe Delta Flyersbelow , with Wang ’s orthoepy guide beginning at 1:04:46 .
Robert Duncan McNeill : " On Discovery or Strange New Worlds … I question if they would have any kind of cultural consultant that would make certain – I think nowadays , what you ’re pointing out ? People have an awareness . "
Garrett Wang : " They ’ll go to a native speaker and say , ' hey , how do you pronounce this ? ' And they ’ll have the actors enounce it right . "
Terry Farrell : " No , but we should have , because we were Star Trek . It just seems like we should have been more elevated in our awareness in how to say affair . "
Robert Duncan McNeill : " I think our contemporaries , DS9 and Voyager , we were in this sort of middle ground , that there was an awareness that we should be doing culturally conscious things , but they were n’t doing it 100 % . You have a go at it , they were just sort of refer a runabout after a Chinese river and thought , that ’s enough . We do n’t even have to say it right . "
In its seven time of year , Star Trek : Voyager introduced many Modern boldness to the Trek universe of discourse . Here is a breakdown of the show ’s main cast and character .
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Star Trek : Voyager ’s most glaring error when it arrive to ethnic predisposition was the hiring of a man bang as Jamake Highwater ( formerly Jack Marks ) asVoyager ’s fallacious aboriginal American cultural consultantto aid in developing the character of Commander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) . McNeill and Wang call outVoyager’s"fake advisor,“who was not Indigineous at all , which shows in the lack of specificity regarding Chakotay ’s history , cultural practices , and on-going stories . Highwater ’s participation is cogent evidence thatjust get a advisor is n’t enough ; they must also be vetted for authenticity .
fortuitously , modernStar Trekcan even off the erroneousness of the past in their new shows , as Robert Duncan McNeill suggests . Star Trek : Prodigyis a stealth continuation toStar Trek : Voyager , with many returning actors , include Robert Beltran as Captain Chakotay promised inProdigyseason 2 . Chakotay’sProdigymission was say to befixing the mistakes Voyager made in the Delta Quadrant , which strongly hint towardsProdigy ’s writers recognise the same thing that McNeill , Wang , and Farrell discussed inThe Delta Flyers . Star Trek : VoyagerandStar Trek : Deep Space Ninewere culturally aware , but could do comfortably .
Star Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : Voyagerare cyclosis on Paramount+ .
Source : The Delta Flyers
