The Lesson: True, Zoe Saldana's Uhura not only got more screen time in the new film than Nichelle Nichols enjoyed in most of her Trek career. And he even got a couple of moments to shine.
But she's nothing compared to BSG's Starbuck and President Roslin, and even iconic Cylon Number Six. While there's no way to develop her character as solidly as those three given the much shorter running time of a film, more can definitely be done with her - and maybe some other female characters, since they were largely lacking in Trek's first cruise.
The Example: The emotional baggage carried by Kara "Starbuck" Thrace after some time spent on New Caprica with slimy Cylon obessive Leoben (Occupation and Precipice).
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RemakesJustSuck
Oct 16th 2009, 0:34
BSG was mostly a disaster, it had 3-4 good actors the rest of the cast were terrible. It had one good season the rest was unwatcable If anything JJ should try to be nothing like Battlestar Unwatcable, either the new or the 80s version both of them sucked and are terribly over-rated by fanboys
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Paul2320
Apr 26th 2010, 8:23
But you watched all of them. Right? That's how you knew that they all sucked..
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Gorty
Oct 27th 2010, 20:56
Yeah, please stop with RDM a*s-kissing. "No SF cliches"?! Have you even bothered to watch the show? RDM is pushing this BS that because he didn't include aliens and time travel that he avoided SF cliches. But what about tons of other cliches that went on and on trough the show like chosen one (at one point there were at least 6 "chosen one" characters), the special child, returns from the dead, androids secretly among us, Adam and Eve... And he may not include time travel but he included endless and pointless flashbacks.
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