The Top 3 Reasons This Star Trek Fan is Excited for the Newest Star Wars Movie

I’m an Star Trek fan through and through. First thing I’m doing once space travel is pedestrian is taking an extended vacation on Risa. Then I’m going to the halodeck for… privacy. That said, even I am pretty hyped for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to come out later this month. I’ll skip the “visual effects are going to be amazing” because yes, yes they are.

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I’ll also skip the “Hark! A female lead!” because while I still have butterflies whenever a badass woman hits the big screen, I’ll wait to sing Felicity Jones’ praises until I see the film. If she’s half as good as I hope she will be, there’ll be time for that in the weeks to come. Instead, here are the top 3 reasons my Trekkie heart is all aflutter: Diversity

Have you seen the college catalog diversity banner that is the movie’s cast? Producer Kathleen Kennedy noted that diversity is incredibly important to the Star Wars films and to the film industry globally. For me, if we’re going to have a movie set in space, on distant planets, then there has to be diversity and it should come from more than just the puppet and CGI departments. A lack of true human diversity erodes my suspension of disbelief because I need to believe that the world I’m entering isn’t a sad duplicate of the one I occupy everyday. Moral Complexity There’s the force, right? And there’s a dark side and a light side. That’s pretty simple, pretty cut and dry. But, th…