Hey, Pat, great to see you!
The real world of 20th century Britain further shapes the show in the surprising lack of cultural diversity in the actors as well --
It's also been remarked that women are under-represented--I think they just tended to cast white males.
But one should argue, Dayna has it all over Uhura in terms of characterization because she was a major character in B7 who
got
to do lots of vital things plot wise (I mean, Dayna got to BLOW STUFF UP!) whereas Uhura was just monitoring comm channels in pretty short skirts.
Throughout human history, violence has often been valorized--the difference between a "resistance group" and a "gang of terrorists" depends on who's commentating and how successful the effort was.
(A big aside here: This move, for any of you American lefties out there, seems to echo the old Communist Party USA's late 1930's and early 1940's "popular front against fascism" in which the American Communists -- who were the only real organized force actively fighting
white
racism on the streets as well as in the courts -- actively supported
American
National interests during the war and even adopted patriotic rhetoric.
But, like the Nazi-Soviet Pact, it was a piece of opportunism that led many to give up on the motivations of the CPUSA.
Blake didn't blow up Star One, so it seems at some level that all of his actions of armed
struggle
against the state (i.e., blowing up stuff) does amount to little more than isolated acts of "terrorism."
In a sense, though, the Andromedans did his work for him.
-(Y)