I am not trying to be funny. One of my good friends is a little person. Has Star Trek ever had a little person in Star Fleet before? They have had almost everybody else, which is great. Maybe Dwarfism is cured in the future. I always thought it would be cool to have a LP admiral or pilot or something.
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From recollection: Not in Starfleet, apart from the cameo E-Dub mentioned.
But there's Alexander in "Plato's Stepchildren", whom Kirk offers asylum to let him escape from the viciousness of the Platonians. Headcanon would allow him to enter the Academy, or find a much brighter future either which way.
But there's Alexander in "Plato's Stepchildren", whom Kirk offers asylum to let him escape from the viciousness of the Platonians. Headcanon would allow him to enter the Academy, or find a much brighter future either which way.
There is no reason why anyone of any height or size can not be in Star Trek. A person’s physical attributes do not mean that they have to be type cast as an alien either, so there is no reason why anyone who is naturally short or even tall for that matter can not be cast as a human or ‘other’ Admiral as you say. Here is an example of such an actor who appeared in Doctor Who, I could see him playing an Admiral. I’m sure that there are more actors who are short, so maybe give other people a chance and not give all the good roles to the same person though. 
Sometimes a persons unique physical attributes can intentionally become part of a character’s design, other times it can be irrelevant to the character and it really does not matter what shape, ethnicity or gender etc they are.
Sometimes a persons unique physical attributes can intentionally become part of a character’s design, other times it can be irrelevant to the character and it really does not matter what shape, ethnicity or gender etc they are.
Don't forget the Federation's newest members in "Insurrection," who gave Picard a nice headdress to wear.
Like Alexander, the original Kivas wasn't in Starfleet. Unlike Alexander, Kivas was a villain. He could have become good with a script rewrite...
There were also little people as alien extras on DS9. They’re on Memory Alpha as “Aliens With Bulbous Heads and Mandibles.” Then they mucked it up and put the same makeup on taller people. Woulda been cool if they were all little people. Get some diversity of forms out there ya know? In my head canon the taller ones are fewer among their people.
KEENSER, MY DUDES.
It's an iffy situ, one one hand you can say it's "cured" in the future but on the other you have no representation, and maybe calling it cured is insensitive so they only have aliens that way. Would love input from someone little, I'm curious what they'd think of this discussion.
I’ll top that one, let’s get Warwick Davis as a famed Starfleet Captain with several significant victories under his belt.
Given that people with congenital conditions that make them extra tall or extra short tend to have worse health and reduced lifespans, it's reasonable that these conditions would be mostly dealt with... pretty sure Federation law permits gene manipulation to eliminate harmful conditions.
Be that as it may, we could certainly see Dinklage or Davis as aliens who naturally had a short stature.
Be that as it may, we could certainly see Dinklage or Davis as aliens who naturally had a short stature.
Well, it would be perfectly normal to simply expect most genetic disorders are caught early and treated before birth in the 24th century. In fact, they should be able to repair/replace anything, either through cloning techniques (we can do a lot of this even now, like growing ears on rats), or cybernetics. We never see any good cybernetics on ST - just Borg stuff (not counting Seven, who somehow got the only smexy Borg parts LOL).
That being said, we've seen blind people and people in wheelchairs, so obviously even magi-tech has its limits. It weird, though, when you think about it, because you can literally create yourself a brand new body with a transporter, and McKoy was doing brain-swaps way back in the 23rd century.
Transporters are like the antithesis of holodeks - they solve all the problems.
That being said, we've seen blind people and people in wheelchairs, so obviously even magi-tech has its limits. It weird, though, when you think about it, because you can literally create yourself a brand new body with a transporter, and McKoy was doing brain-swaps way back in the 23rd century.
Transporters are like the antithesis of holodeks - they solve all the problems.
Sounds about right.
Always wanted to see more of them.Well, there were these guys.
(From TOS: Journey to Babel). Never saw them in Starfleet, but they are, presumably, Federation members, so they're probably represented.
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