My Thoughts on the New April casting

I wanted to add my thoughts to the Captain April casting. Recently for my blog I have started reviewing the Animated Series which I haven’t seen since I was a kid. So far, my thoughts are both “these stories are awesome and amazing” and “my god this animation sucks.” You might compare the animation to the graphics in TOS but the difference is TOS graphics were excellent for their time, they even won a few awards. They only look cheap in comparison, whereas TAS animation was poor even for the time.

However, the stories are compelling. So recently they cast Adrian Holmes as Captain Robert T. April, a character who was only appearance was in the last episode of TAS. So, Holmes is black and the animated April was white. Now this has upset two bases of people: racists and those fans of TAS who think it is being decanonized again.

My argument is on TAS the tribbles were pink and not brown and none of the characters pointed this out. The delta on crew’s shirts on TAS has a hard time pointing up. They point right or left and sometimes appear on the wrong side. In short, my view is this: while I see TAS stories as cannon I don’t count any TAS visuals as canon. So, I am looking forward to Mr. Holmes performance.