UHURA'S UPGRADE

*STAR TREK spoilers ahead, kiddies! So, beware!*

I'm letting a bit more of my inner nerd out than usual for this post, in preparation for the upcoming CSTS screening y'all, so bear with me!! *that post is coming soooon!*

So, I have a bit more Trek to discuss, because a certain segment of fans have failed to kneel before the awesome of New!Uhura, for rather dubious reasons.

Usually, they'll say something along the lines of... she was relegated to being just a love interest, she wasn't as classy as Nichelle, or why was she trying to jump Spock's bones in the turbolift/transporter?!

To the first, I present the most eloquent, logical *hee!*, and thorough defense of this aspect of New!Uhura's character I've read, courtesy of liviapenn, over on livejournal.

She contends that if you get mad at Uhura for being too limited, then you've gotta do the same for Bones; since he played a similar role, except smaller and for Kirk, instead.

And my goodness, she's right!

To the second, I agree. Nichelle Nichols was the epitome of cool/sexy as Uhura. She had more classy-sex appeal in her pinky-toe than that entire cast put together. So, why then, I ask, did malicious aliens have to force someone to kiss her?

The limits of the times. 60's TV execs didn't like a black woman even being on the damn show, forget having a love interest....Which brings me to the last bit; why the fact that she has one is a step up, not down.

What feminist fans are forgetting is that black women don't usually get romantic agency on the big screen. Heck, the only black female Oscar winner won for banging the racist who killed her hubby, - I'm just saying...

Far more often, black women are stuck playing the role the original Uhura was, safely peripheral (and asexual) friend. Heck, even Zoe started out her career in that vein. Hello, Center Stage and Crossroads.

So, when I saw New!Uhura on the big screen demanding the place she'd earned on the Enterprise, dissing the womanizer, and being an intelligent woman with a love life, you'll have to excuse me if I didn't cry sexism.

No, I cheered hard for the all-new, upgraded Uhura. I can identify with the black geeky girl, without the stereotypical accouterments, okay? Fierce earrings, black nail polish, and noglasses aren't anti-nerd, umkay?

And WTF?! Chaste kisses and a hug do not = "trying to jump his bones". They = what YOU DO when you love somebody who's hurting, OK?

P.S. For all those howling about where the other women at? If you didn't howl about it for Star Wars, you've gotta ask yourselves, why you're doing it now.

P.P.S. Up is the next movie to be reviewed, peoples.

P.P.P.S. If more women are hopefully added for the sequel, I say Number One > Nurse Chapel and Yeoman Rand. Okay?

P.P.P.P.S YOU GUYS! MR DARCY IS COMIN' THOUGH THE MISTS ON OXYGEN RIGHT NOW *-lesigh!-* Yo. That movie is my ish!! :D

*with apologies to those who did not wish to read DCMovieGirl in full-fledged random ranty-fangirl mode, I hope this entertained you*

Okay, going to bed now, because I am zoinked.

*zzzz*