An Observation About diversity on Discovery, 32nd Century

[Dryson]

Another observation, where are the Synthetics? Did Dr. Soong pass his lineage onto the 32nd century?

What has become of the Synthetics in the last 789 years between Picard and when Burnham shows up in the 32nd century?

Does Coppellius and the Orchids along with the Synths survive the Burn?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Another observation, where are the Synthetics? Did Dr. Soong pass his lineage onto the 32nd century?

What has become of the Synthetics in the last 789 years between Picard and when Burnham shows up in the 32nd century?

Does Coppellius and the Orchids along with the Synths survive the Burn?

Synths are Picard thing. They probably wont touch them.

 

[Dryson]

Synths are Picard thing. They probably wont touch them.

Both shows are canon, yes. Therefore Picard and Disco are interconnected. Burnham and Discovery didn't do anything to affect the past timeline, of which Picard is part of. Therefore Synths and Dr. Soong surviving into the 32nd century is a thing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Both shows are canon, yes. Therefore Picard and Disco are interconnected. Burnham and Discovery didn't do anything to affect the past timeline, of which Picard is part of. Therefore Synths and Dr. Soong surviving into the 32nd century is a thing.

Didn't say they weren't. But stories about the Synths will be explored in Picard and Disco will probably avoid them to avoid stepping on Picard's toes out of courtesy.

 

[fireproof78]

Didn't say they weren't. But stories about the Synths will be explored in Picard and Disco will probably avoid them to avoid stepping on Picard's toes out of courtesy.

And synths are not relevant to current stories.

 

[somebuddyX]

They should do an episode where they just stand around rattling off the status quo of the entire Star Trek. Where are the Gorn? Where are the Metrons? What happened to the Dominion? Where's the EMH backup from "Living Witness"? What happened to Giant Spock?

 

[Awesome Possum]

Would that mean that there are alien races for each human skin color and non-human, alike, seeding the galaxy with genetic material or did the ancient aliens seed the galaxy with genetic material that built life from the best DNA material that could be found on each planet?

Skin color in humans is an adaptation to the amount of UV radiation from the sun in a region. Since then it's largely based on the genetics of your ancestors. It has nothing to do with aliens and the DNA of two humans with different skin color is virtually identical since humans have a lack of genetic diversity, less than that of an average troop of chimpanzees due to there being a population bottleneck at some point in the past. The differences between skin color on a genetic level is no difference than the differences in hair color.

So I'd imagine that since Star Trek features humans, then those humans would have the same genetic history as us. So it has nothing to do with aliens giving certain human races different DNA than other humans. It implies that different races are almost different species, a notion that has lead to some awful practices.

 

[Kraig]

Has anyone else noticed that there aren't very many black people in the 32nd century? The only black people I have seen are Burnham, Booker, Doc, and O. I haven't see any black people in the back ground at Starfleet HQ in the 32nd century.

Has anyone else seen black people in the background of Starfleet HQ or any other episode after the jump to the future?

I wonder what happened to them between the battle with Control and the 32nd century.

Not so much Star Fleet, but on 32nd century Earth:

Captain Ndoya United Earth Defense Force

 

[Awesome Possum]

I think there are actually more black characters on Discovery than any other Trek series, not much of an achievement since I think the last record was three characters.

 

[nic3636]

I think there are actually more black characters on Discovery than any other Trek series, not much of an achievement since I think the last record was three characters.

In TNG 2 of the 7 main cast (Gerodi and Worf) were black. In DS9 3 of the 9 main cast (Sisko, Jake, and Worf) were black, with Sisko obviously being the series lead. That seems pretty decent to me. TOS, VOY, and ENT were definitely on the whiter side though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

They should do an episode where they just stand around rattling off the status quo of the entire Star Trek. Where are the Gorn? Where are the Metrons? What happened to the Dominion? Where's the EMH backup from "Living Witness"? What happened to Giant Spock?

A checklist fanboy's wet dream to be sure.

 

[fireproof78]

A checklist fanboy's wet dream to be sure.

The only that dream can come true will be if it is a six part miniseries touring across the whole Milky Way of every single species and characters.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Star Trek: Checklist, only on Paramount+

 

[cooleddie74]

Guest starring Faran Tahir as Robau.

And Robau's father.

And that background guy from "The Lights of Zetar(TOS)."

 

[fireproof78]

Guest starring Faran Tahir as Robau.

Now that I would pay for.

 

[Kor]

They should do an episode where they just stand around rattling off the status quo of the entire Star Trek. Where are the Gorn? Where are the Metrons? What happened to the Dominion? Where's the EMH backup from "Living Witness"? What happened to Giant Spock?

I think something like this could work on Lower Decks.

Kor

 

[somebuddyX]

I think something like this could work on Lower Decks.

Kor

You're probably right. But my idea was just some asshole with a megaphone yelling at the camera for forty minutes about what happened to who and when.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I just want a book about the state of the galaxy in the 32nd century like those atlas books released towards the end of the Berman era.

 

[dupersuper]

No, it is a factor, as much as and like what happened when that episode of Deep Space Nine focusing on Bashir's Augment status had the production staff scrambling to find an actress of the right ethnicity to play his mom (they had to settle for a woman who was a visiting college professor-and not an actress-to play the role just for this episode.)

Seriously? She did a great job then.

Another observation, where are the Synthetics? Did Dr. Soong pass his lineage onto the 32nd century?

What has become of the Synthetics in the last 789 years between Picard and when Burnham shows up in the 32nd century?

Does Coppellius and the Orchids along with the Synths survive the Burn?

Like most people, the bulk are probably somewhat stranded in their home sector.

They should do an episode where they just stand around rattling off the status quo of the entire Star Trek. Where are the Gorn? Where are the Metrons? What happened to the Dominion? Where's the EMH backup from "Living Witness"? What happened to Giant Spock?

I sense the sarcasm, but I'd totally watch this.

 

[krsplat]

Has anyone else noticed that there aren't very many black people in the 32nd century?

The show is about the 32nd century, but it's still being made in the 21st century.
The portrayal of futurism is limited by modern social constructs.
I can't fully explain what those social constructs are, but they seem to be causing a lack of diversity on television shows.