Ha ha, wow this episode was insanely racist. The Enterprise is need of an antidote from this planet. On this planet are a race of black people from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Not only does this culture mimic African tribal customs and appearance, but they are also totally backwards and savage. It's actually like mixing Star Trek with Coming To America. They live by a code of honor, which is far to reminiscent of a street gang.
The tribe leader ends up kidnapping Tasha Yar ... for some weird custom. I guess the custom is to steal a white woman or something. But, then he ends up wanting to marry her, unfortunately his wife doesn't like this and she want to fight Yar to the death. From what I gather this entire thing was just a ploy to have someone kill his wife. Thus far, a tough start for TNG season one.
ST TNG: 4 down 174 to go
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i don't really remember this episode so I just googled "star trek code of honor" and the first suggestion was "racist"
even google thinks its racist
seems weird that star trek would make a racist episode (probably not on purpose though...right?)
It's every stereotype. I could see TOS making it, but not TNG. I actually wouldn't mind, but the episode in general just sucked.
The episode with the Space Africans. This episode was a fuckin' abomination.
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