and it would've normalized an entire genre and an entire way of being, and an entire people. the fact that he's young and black doesn't make him a junky. - even though gina torres didn't make it to the "m.a.n.t.i.s." series, it really was just the beginning of her sort of sci-fi legacy. - i watched her for a decade. she's one of the people i like to say like, raised me on television. i watched her in "firefly" when i was in high school. and i was watching her on "xena", on "hercules". - i'm nebula. - i fit in science fiction because i didn't fit anywhere else. the fact that i'm ethnically ambiguous to a lot of creators out there. where i did fit was in sci-fi. i could be a standalone badass. - i don't think we notice when we're watching, what it means that this is a door that has never been opened, being opened.