Worst stereotype in Trek...
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Klingons and Romulans, as species. I dont think any others in ST consistently got the seen-one-seen-em-all treatment that they did.
ALL Romulans were duplicitous scheming treacherous bastards.
ALL Klingons were chest thumping barely contained psycho troglodytes..
They were practically one-note jokes by the time TNG/DS9 was done with them.
Next worst would be Ferengi. Basically Jews as imagined in racist jokes, transplanted to space as an alien species.
ALL Romulans were duplicitous scheming treacherous bastards.
ALL Klingons were chest thumping barely contained psycho troglodytes..
They were practically one-note jokes by the time TNG/DS9 was done with them.
Next worst would be Ferengi. Basically Jews as imagined in racist jokes, transplanted to space as an alien species.
That's the best stereotype.
Actually, I think the Romulans were shown to be more ambiguous than that all the way through TOS to TNG. DS9 did portray them as more stereotypical though.
Seconded.
I woud say its Kivas Fajo.
Ther essential greedy Jew stereotype.
Interestingly, Kivas Fajo wasn't jewish though. And the part was originally going to go to David Rappaport, but he attempted suicide during filming. Saul Rubinneck (pictured above) happened to be attempting to arrange a set visit at the time and was offered the part.
Anything of the part that you see as invoking the "greedy Jew sterotype" can probably be traced to the actor himself... who is jewish.
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....That village they had on Voyager was straight out of one of our twee tourist traps we have here.Full of superstitious muppets and big ignorant bible thumpers.....We haven't been like that since the early 90's.
Especially since the very first Romulan we ever met (in "Balance of Terror" was clearly depicted as an honorable, almost noble foe . . .
One example that comes to mind is some Dominion / Cardassian person saying something about the Romulans being "reliably treacherous" or something of the like.
The most outrageous "Romulan attitude" moment I can think of would be the one where this Romulan turns up to a sort of Yalta esque high level conference of AQ powers, and straight away remarks that Klingons should be exhibited in Romulan zoos.
A similar haughtiness shows up in TNG when some Romulan comes on to the Enterprise and mouths off to Picard about the future "when the Romulan Empire spans the galaxy and humans are extinct"
The most outrageous "Romulan attitude" moment I can think of would be the one where this Romulan turns up to a sort of Yalta esque high level conference of AQ powers, and straight away remarks that Klingons should be exhibited in Romulan zoos.
A similar haughtiness shows up in TNG when some Romulan comes on to the Enterprise and mouths off to Picard about the future "when the Romulan Empire spans the galaxy and humans are extinct"
Agreed...that was unpleasant.
"Captain! I'm frightened!"
Somehow I can't imagine that line coming out of Chekov or Sulu's mouths.
Somehow I can't imagine that line coming out of Chekov or Sulu's mouths.
If your "half" something, you have to choose between one or the other. Obviously that happened a lot with Spock, but you also saw it with B'Elanna Torres, and i think others who were mixed.
On Earth, if you're half-Asian (like me), you don't always have those battles. You should be able to blend both, or choose a third option of how you want to live. (K'Ehlehr, as played by Suzy Plakson, would be the best example of this)
On Earth, if you're half-Asian (like me), you don't always have those battles. You should be able to blend both, or choose a third option of how you want to live. (K'Ehlehr, as played by Suzy Plakson, would be the best example of this)
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I woud say its Kivas Fajo.
Ther essential greedy Jew stereotype.
Interestingly, Kivas Fajo wasn't jewish though. And the part was originally going to go to David Rappaport, but he attempted suicide during filming. Saul Rubinneck (pictured above) happened to be attempting to arrange a set visit at the time and was offered the part.
Anything of the part that you see as invoking the "greedy Jew sterotype" can probably be traced to the actor himself... who is jewish.
What he has on his head, a bit fat, big nose and greed = negative jewish stereotype.
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