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⌈ Secret Post #2327 ⌋

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[Sofia the First]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Tara Strong, John de Lancie]

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[Iron Man 3]

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[Cristiano Ronaldo]

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[BriTANick]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Community]

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[Batman movies (Nolan)]

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[Nine Inch Nails]

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[Harry Potter]

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[Romeo and Juliet, 1968]

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15. [SPOILERS for Supernatural]

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16. [SPOILERS for Star Trek: Into Darkness]

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18. [WARNING for suicide]

[Supernatural]

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19. [WARNING for non-con]

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20. [WARNING for dubcon]

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21. [WARNING for eating disorders]

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The original character conception poked at two of the biggest unexamined assumptions behind most pop science fiction, first that the politics of the future will remain primarily eurocentric. (Cyberpunk wasn't immune to this, since the Pacific-Rim references were mostly driven by 80s anxiety about Japanese industrialization.) Second, the perpetuation of socially constructed ideas about race into the the future.

It pops to the top of my mind because I just finished Karen Lord's latest novel where she spends an entire chapter deconstructing the ideology that you can use cosmetic phenotypes like skin and hair color to distinguish your ruling and slave classes. Those phenotypes are completely unrelated to the genes you might consider important. (See also Slonczewski's Highest Frontier, in which, the genetically engineered and carefully bred heir to the Kennedy political legacy is half Cuban.)

So of course, if you're going to create the biological ubermensch with the best genes for intelligence, health, strength, and longevity, you need to start looking at PoC because more than half of human diversity is in Africa alone, and the rest is spread out over Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Now of course, that argument against eugenics is more technically demanding than LOL Nazis. Galton and the white supremacists turn out to be the flat-earthers of genetics and anthropology. Which might be why Abrams backed away from the more complicated anti-eugenicist argument posed by Khan, even though the methods that falsify white-supremacist anthropology beyond any possible doubt came in the 1980s rather than the 1960s. LOL Nazis just isn't the cutting edge of that bioethics discussion, which makes it pretty uninteresting science fiction unless you fluff it up with a lot of special effects.

At any rate, the idea that the best, brightest, and most morally ambiguous superman came from North India, and created the largest, most stable, and paradoxically least oppressive government of future history in Asia and Africa certainly was a radical notion for 60s television. His name is perhaps a deliberate nod to Genghis, who, depending on your historical perspective, was the best or worst thing to happen to Asia.

So yeah, I think changing the character's history changes things, and probably not for the better. It's probably not a deal-killer because the best thing you can do with a Star Trek movie is go in with extremely low expectations.

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