'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Actress Gina Yashere Reacts To The Show's Cancellation: "Stay Woke"
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actress Gina Yashere, who played Lura Thok, reacted to the show’s cancellation by imploring her followers to “stay woke.”
In a post to Instagram, Yashere shared a video about how she was gutted by the show’s cancellation.
She said, “Obviously, gutted. I thought we made an amazing show. The first season was a fantastic. And we just finished shooting season 2 and I can say season 2 is even better. We just kept building on that platform we made. And, in my humble opinion, I think it was one of the best first seasons of Star Trek made.”
However, she later shared she had no idea what Star Trek was before she was cast in the show, “My overwhelming feeling right now is gratitude. I am grateful for having been part of this whole universe. I had no idea of the Star Trek universe until I got in and now I am hooked, I tell you, hooked.”
Nevertheless, she continued, “I truly hope and believe that this is not the end of Star Trek. The message of Gene Roddenberry is still so apt and so needed right now. And I hope Star Trek will come back in the future continuing the same legacy. Obviously, the world is still not ready to hear the message of love, peace, infinite diversity, acceptance, the eschewing of violence and senseless wars. We’re not ready to hear that message yet and hopefully one day we will be. And Star Trek will be back stronger than ever. And preferably with the same message and not completely white washed."
Alongside the video, she also wrote, “I’ll let you guys come to your own conclusions as to why we didn’t get to continue building on this wonderful legacy.”
“Right now, I'm just grateful at having been part of it, and in a business that veers often between feast & famine, I've been able to build the life of my dreams, being able to tell authentic stories, an ability which I truly believe is now under attack,” she continued. “Be safe out there peeps. Stay woke. Wokeywoke. Wokest of the woke. Wokeyliscious. A cacophony of woke.”
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This disaster is pathetic. She was previously on the sitcom Bob ❤️ Abishola and she played Kammy. Let me tell you about Kammy - she was the dumb one. The cafeteria worker who was always popping up to be comic relief to the more intelligent hospital staff. And she had a boyfriend - an African guy who was easily 15 years younger than her, which was already nuts, because he was smart, in great shape, and good looking, yet he was attracted to this ugly, overweight, unintelligent, loud, and disgusting slob with donkey teeth. And there was a whole episode where she takes off her wig and her makeup and we see that she's an old broad trying desperately to look young so she can hang on to the guy. Her character was a joke, just like she is in real life.
And may she find work at a McDonald's soon.