Bizarre war of words erupts between lesbian Star Trek actress and top Trump lieutenant
Star Trek actress Gina Yashere has taken aim at White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
Yashere, Lura Thok in Paramount Plus's new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, slammed Miller as 'fragile' in a Sunday Instagram post.
Attached was footage of Bill Maher on 'Real Time' Friday decrying a January 15 social post from Miller that complained about Yashere's character being gay.
'Tragic,' Miller, 40, wrote at the time, over a clip of Yashere, 51, with costars Tricia Black and Holly Hunter. Thok's on-screen relationship in the series is with Tig Notaro's Jett Reno.
'But it's not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control,' Miller further fumed. The original post and clip came from the conservative X account End Wokeness.
Yashere - who is also gay in real life - shared Maher's reaction over the weekend to air her own thoughts.
The British comic began: 'I was practically born wearing a tool belt.
'But if you could choose your sexuality, why would we choose men? All of the hatred coming at us is from fragile, angry white men, talking about either our non-whiteness or our bodies.
Star Trek actress Gina Yashere (left) - Tig Notaro's alien love interest in Paramount's new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - took aim at Stephen Miller over the weekend after the official called the show's casting 'tragic'
The White House deputy chief of staff for policy presented the complaint over a clip of Yashere, 51, with costars Tricia Black and Holly Hunter. Black is also gay
'It's frankly ridiculous,' she continued, adding that Miller's attack 'makes me want to lean even more into our wokeness.'
'Anyway, this space lesbian is here to tell you @startrek #starfleetacademy is STREAMING NOW,' she said with one final sign-off.
'We woke. Wokey wokey. Super woke. Wokest of the woke,' it read.
Yashere also could not resist one parting shot at Maher, presumably for his recent criticisms of the Democratic Party and their penchant for certain talking points.
'Bill Maher is nobody's fantasy either, so we're even my dude!' Yashere wrote.
After coming to Yashere's defense on his HBO show, Maher could not help but quip: 'I must admit when I was a teenager dreaming about space lesbians this wasn't what I had in mind.' Like Yashere, Notaro and Black are openly lesbian.
Maher, meanwhile, prodded Miller for being 'a 40-year-old man tweeting about Star Trek.' The Daily Mail has reached out the White House for comment.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is now streaming on Paramount Plus. The owner of Paramount, 42-year-old tech scion David Ellison, promised to build on franchises like Star Trek during his first address as CEO in August.
The original post and clip came from the conservative X account End Wokeness on January 15
Yashere - who is openly gay - took to Instagram on Sunday to poke fun at the political operative. She called him 'fragile' after Bill Maher brought up his post the Friday before
Ellison - the son of billionaire Trump ally David Ellison - also aired plans to return Paramount to its glitzy glory days, following a lengthy regulatory review and Donald Trump's suit surrounding edits to a '60 Minutes' interview with Kamala Harris that some said was bias.
'We’re an entertainment company first, and I genuinely believe if you’re breathing, you’re our audience,' Ellison said at the time, after months of being accused of bribery due to a $16million settlement reached shortly beforehand between Trump and Paramount.
'I don’t want to politicize this company,' he added.
'We want to be in the business of speaking to everybody.'
Prior to the new Star Trek series, Yashere appeared in The Standups and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. She is in a relationship with New York-based social justice professor Nina Rose Fischer.
