By Chris Snellgrove
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The subject of a character change of breed is very controversial among gender fans. For example, many Harry Potter fans are in a full -fledged wizard that a black actor (Paapa Essiedu) could end up playing Professor Snape (a character originally described on the screen by Alan Rickman) in the next show Harry Potter. It is easy to consider this as a modern phenomenon, but changing characters due to racial concerns date back to the golden age of television. Example: producers of Star Trek: The next generation The episode “Booby Trap” changed the character of Navid Daystrom in Leah Brahms because the actor was white.
Navid Daystrom has become Leah Brahms
If you are a big TNG fan, then Leah Brahms does not need a lot of introduction. She is the genius of the Warp chain that Geordi the forge begins to fall to speak after having recreated it on the Holodeck, and when they find themselves later in the meat space, poor Geordi appears as the greatest incel of the cosmos. However, what most fans do not know is that the character of Brahms was originally designed as Navid Daystrom, a descendant of the black character Richard Daystrom, but these plans had to be modified because the show had already thrown the white actor Susan Gibney for the role.
So that you fully understand that, we will have to lead a brief Star Trek History lesson: in The original series Episode “The Ultimate Computer”, we are presented to Doctor Richard Daystrom, who uses the company to test its fully automated M-5 multimontrotronic system. Because it was 60s science fictionHowever, the new computer that can execute the ship alone ends up taking over the ship and even destroying several Starfleet ships in the region for war games. Kirk saves the day, but not before discovering that this drama was caused by Daystrom putting human engrams in the printed circuit cards of his new brilliant toy.
The one and only appearance of Doctor Daystrom in Tos was that of a neurotic and short -sighted man whose technological shortcuts have killed dozens of Starfleet staff. Despite this, however, the prestigious Daystrom Institute was appointed according to him, probably because of his previous work on the Duotronic computers and not on the whole crazy thing of AI. And the Tng The producers originally wanted to consolidate the connection of their new spin-off to the previous show including a holographic version of Navid Daystrom, a descendant of Richard Daystrom, in “Booby Trap”.
It’s a good idea on paper. Star trek fans were generally satisfied with the different ways that TNG connected to TOs, which finally included Cams from Dr. McCoy, SpockAnd Scotty. Consequently, the writers of “Booby Trap” estimated that having a new character of genius engineer was a descendant of this unique character from the era of Kirk would make a fun Easter egg. Unfortunately, the casting department did not timed the connection with the original episode, so they did not know that having Navid Daystrom was a descendant of Richard Daystrom would mean launching a black actor.
They had already thrown the white actor Susan Gibney into the role, so “Navid Daystrom” became Leah Brahms. Fortunately, the show kept its connection with the character of Tos by making Brahms herself a graduate of the Daystrom Institute. She has never created a killer or anything, but she did Transform the adorable Geordi for the forge into one of the scary guys in the galaxy for a few episodes.
Unfortunately, Brahms never submitted a technological support ticket after Geordi was so broken. If yes, they may have asked him a very useful question: “Have you tried to deactivate your INCEL and then come back?”
