first "voyager" read through... yikes

Slowly working my way through the novels, and while diana definitely has had her fair share of badly stereotyped characters, this book is so crazy to read. As soon as Yi Tien Cho was introduced i was cringing, i understand the modern day understanding of other cultures and people gives us a different lens to see this through, but i can't imagine that when it was written this level of stereoptyping and racism wasnt alarming. I felt like even in the show, i liked yi tien chos character but i thought they made some strange very pointed choices with his "quirks" as it were. To find out that it's DRASTICALLY taming down whatever the hell was being written into the books was a bit of a shock, its honestly making voyager a little harder to get through. He doesnt even feel like a character, just an excuse for people to say crazy shit! SO WEIRD. It makes me sad how claire thinks and acts towards him as well, since they're very friendly in the show, do the books get better with this? or worse.... because im a little scared of reading about the whole jamaica trip...

still loving the books, this just feels like a rough reminder that sometimes, lets just avoid writing about what we dont know