Discovery's finale is "not diverse enough"!
Out of morbid curiosity, I quickly read “plot spoilers” on STD’s series finale, and going by the show’s OWN standards, it’s simply “not diverse enough”. Apparently, it ends with Burnham being promoted to Admiral, and gives us a straight black male (Book) and a straight black female (Burnham) falling in love with each other (played by real life straight black actors), while attending a traditional wedding ceremony between two OTHER heterosexual characters: Saru & T'Rina, ALSO played by real life white, straight actors (Doug Jones & Tara Rosling)
Where is the “diversity”?
If STD was REALLY “bold” and “groundbreaking” and “trailblazing”, they COULD have ended with Tilly falling in love with a bunch of pansexual, nongendered plant beings and having the first polygamous dendrophile marriage in Star Trek history, and Michael Burnham retiring from Starfleet and being replaced with the very first quadriplegic, Muslim, transgendered, asexual female captain in Star Trek history. Maybe they could even get real life Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to play the character at the end, so they can pat themselves on the back for forcing partisan politics into Star Trek again.
No doubt if any show BUT STD ended the way it did, Wil Wheaton would be on AfterTrek (or whatever they’re calling it these days) sneering about how such a show played it “safe” and “doesn’t take risks like Discovery” because a bunch of “heteronormative fans don’t realize it’s not the 1950s anymore and its now OK to date outside your own gene pool”. But since STD ended that way, he will no doubt applaud it.
Ironically, STD’s season 5 finale seems to have copied The Orville’s season 3 final (Isaac marries Dr. Finn), except the latter show was more “diverse”, with a robot marrying a black human female.
Gotta LOVE the irony!