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Among the fans of the type, the theme of changing the character’s race is very controversial. For example, many Harry Potter fans have a full-blown wizard Tizzy in the news that Paapa Essiedu, the black actor on the upcoming Harry Potter TV show, ended up playing Snape (a character played by Alan Rickman on the screen). It’s easy to see this as a modern phenomenon, but changing characters due to racial issues can be traced back to the golden age of television. Example: Producer Star Trek: The Next Generation The plot “Booby Trap” changes Navid Daystrom’s character to Leah Brahms because the actor is white.
Navid Days Trom Becomes Leah Brahms
If you are a big TNG fan, Leah Brahms doesn’t need much introduction. She is the warp core genius of Geordi La Forge, who starts to fall after he reappears her on Holodeck, and when they later meet in the meat space, poor Geordi is the biggest Incel in Cosmos. What most fans don’t know, however, is that Brahms’ character was originally considered the descendant of the black character doctor Richard Daystrom, but those plans had to be changed because the show had abandoned white actor Susan Gibney.
To get you to fully understand this, we will have to do a brief history of Star Trek: Original series The plot “Ultimate Computer”, we are introduced to Dr. Richard Memorial, who used the enterprise to test his fully automatic M-5 multi-local system. But because this is a science fiction novel from the 60s, a new computer that can run the ship itself eventually took over the ship and even destroyed multiple starships in the war game area. Kirk saved for a day, but in the event we found the play was caused by Days Trom, which was caused by putting human engrams on the circuit board of his shiny new toys.
Doctor Daystrom’s only other appearance in TOS is a neurotic and shortsighted man whose technical shortcuts have been killed by dozens of Starfleet personnel. Nevertheless, the prestigious Memorial Room Institute was named after him, presumably because of his earlier work on Duototronic computers, rather than the whole crazy AI. The TNG producer initially wanted to include the holographic version of Navid Daystrom, a descendant of Richard Daystrom, in the “Booby Trap”.
This is a good idea. Star Trek fans are usually happy with the different ways TNG is versus TOS, which eventually includes cameo appearances from McCoy, Dr. Spock and Scotty. So, the author of “Booby Trap” believes that having a new talented engineer character is a descendant of this one-time character in the Kirk era, which brings interesting Easter eggs. Unfortunately, the foundry department did not time the connection to the original episode, so they were not aware of having Navid Daystrom a descendant of Richard Daystrom, which meant playing the role of a black actor.
They already played the role of white actor Susan Gibney, so “Navid Daystrom” became Leah Brahms. Fortunately, the show kept her in touch with the TOS character by making Brahms herself a graduate of the Daystrom Institute. She never created a killer AI or anything, but she Have done it Transform the adorable Geordi La Forge into one of the most creepy guys in the Galaxy.
Sadly, Brahms never filed a tech support ticket after Geordi became so damaged. If so, they might ask her a very useful question: “Did you try to turn off Incel and then go back on?”
