[romulan-commander]

[deep sigh] Guys, blaming everything bad with the Star Trek spinoffs on Rick Berman isn’t as helpful as you think it is. His terrible decisions weren’t taken in a vacuum, and he definitely wasn’t alone in enforcing racist, homophobic and sexist policies and writing decisions, otherwise he would have been ostracized. The culprit is the entire corporate mentality of the time, of which Berman is only the most well-known example, having been the executive producer of so many shows. That people (writers and actors) were able to sometimes push against this whole idea that ‘we should never upset or challenge the (white, heterosexual) audience’ is a wonder in itself. Remember, Berman was never alone, and I’m willing to bet that a large number of people on and off the set of the shows actually agreed with him and his terrible opinions wholeheartedly.