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Does Star Trek’s Message of Inclusion Extend to Religion?

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Star Trek’s 50th anniversary celebration continued at last weekend’s Mission New York convention, where Star Trek: Discovery writer-producers Nicholas Meyer and Kirsten Beyer were on hand on behalf of showrunner Bryan Fuller to promote the highly anticipated series. During their panel, however, a question -- and Meyer and Beyer’s reaction to that question -- may have given away a very interesting tidbit about Discovery: It sounds as though the series could feature a Muslim character in its cast.

Now, to emphasize, this was not confirmed during the panel, but still it does raise an intriguing question that has long surrounded creator Gene Roddenberry’s series regarding its sometimes uncomfortable relationship with depicting human religion of the future. Or the lack thereof, as the case may be.

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