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I still don’t understand why they wrote him off of SNW.
The explanation from the EPs is somewhat lame, and exposes some awkward systematic abelism, despite best intentions.
They intended to have a new character die to support Uhura’s character development. They ended up creating a great Aenar character when they asked Kirsten Beyer to suggest a potential alien. Then they cast a legal blind actor to play him who was so much more capable in his craft than they had hoped for.
But they were fixed in their idea that it was necessary to fridge an important character to develop Uhura (🤦🏽♀️).
Which leaves the EPs searching for other roles for Bruce.
On the other hand, if Bruce Horak becomes the multi-character Jeffrey Combs of current Toronto Trek productions, it would be an important advance for representation in its own right.
I hate it when they kill a character just to develop another, it's so lazy and cliché. Definitely one of my pet peeves in media, along with 'the plot only works because characters refuse to communicate'.