Same-species ship; not very UFP?

[T'Girl]

There's never been a tv show where 90% of the cast were visually apparent aliens in an interplanetary/interstellar community.

Babylon Five?

There was this exchange crewman wearing some equipment to help him breath while on the Enterprise-D from the Season 2 episode "A Matter of Honor".

In the rec room scene ifrom ST:TMP, there was (iirc) a crewmember with a mask that covered his entire face. Must be a very isolating.

As for the T'Kumbra: I still believe that Solok could have used his influence at Starfleet Command in order to populate his ship with an all-Vulcan crew. That way, he gets the best of both worlds: he gets to serve in Starfleet, but not alongside "filthy humans".

If Captain Solok was able to fill his command staff with Vulcans who harboured similar view to his own, then any non-Vulcan who was hapless enough to be assigned to Solok's ship could find their lives (both on duty and off) so unpleasent and down right objectionable, that they would soon formally request a transfer. A request that Captain Solok would swiftly authorize.

But only after Solok publically berated the crewmember for request one in the first place.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ It would be very interesting to see what would happen if a human crewmember did serve under Solok's command, AND was capable of standing up to him. How would Solok react if a human underling chose to argue against Solok's treatment of humans and do so logically?

I believe that the T'Kumbra was simply a ship launched from Vulcan and just had an all-Vulcan crew during that point in time. Heck, by now, the ship may even have Humans and other Federation races as members of its complement following a recent crew rotation away from Vulcan.

Well, not exactly...

Spoiler: MAJOR SPOILER

The T'Kumbra is destroyed in the Borg invasion, during the Destiny series of novels. I don't know if it actually had any non-Vulcan crewmembers at that time, though.

 

[Timo]

however the question has to be whether they believe every species has equal "rights" even if there is such inequality. I'm hoping this is the case.

Should it be, though? Solok has a point in that a species that's, say, wheelchair-bound or much shorter than average or perhaps suffering from dyslexia might find life happier in some role other than Starfleet frontline service, and in that the Federation is much better off if those species are not allowed to participate in its frontline defense. Similarly, Solok would have to admit that a species superior to Vulcans might be outside the parameters of ideal Starfleet cannonfodder, and might be destined to, say, rule the UFP or do its cutting edge research.

But such segregation only extends to one narrow area of life, the practicing of a profession. Does this really detract from the equality of a species? Bajorans had found a caste system so perfectly workable that they apparently stuck to it for hundreds of thousands of years - the ultimate proof of concept...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[mos6507]

I'd like to see an all-Excalbian ship, but I'm guessing they don't travel in ships.

I'm assuming this is a joke, right? Were they ever admitted to Starfleet? I don't know of any extended fiction which revisits The Savage Curtain, but I was going to do so in my show so it would be good to know.

 

[T'Girl]

I'd like to see an all-Excalbian ship, but I'm guessing they don't travel in ships.

They were able to clear a relatively large area of the surface of their world of the sea of lava that was once there. And cool that area pretty quickly. This is (or could be) an indication of a technological society.

I assume that Lincoln and the others were actually Excalbians who had changed form somehow, or then articial constructs.

Provided their material science was advanced enough, they should have the ability to construct ships. Become a Federation member by the time of TNG? Maybe.

Perhaps they could serve along side Hortas'.

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

I'd like to see an all-Excalbian ship, but I'm guessing they don't travel in ships.

They were able to clear a relatively large area of the surface of their world of the sea of lava that was once there. And cool that area pretty quickly. This is (or could be) an indication of a technological society.

I assume that Lincoln and the others were actually Excalbians who had changed form somehow, or then articial constructs.

Provided their material science was advanced enough, they should have the ability to construct ships. Become a Federation member by the time of TNG? Maybe.

Perhaps they could serve along side Hortas'.

[McCoy] I'd pay good money to see that![/McCoy]


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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[C.E. Evans]

^ It would be very interesting to see what would happen if a human crewmember did serve under Solok's command, AND was capable of standing up to him. How would Solok react if a human underling chose to argue against Solok's treatment of humans and do so logically?

I believe that the T'Kumbra was simply a ship launched from Vulcan and just had an all-Vulcan crew during that point in time. Heck, by now, the ship may even have Humans and other Federation races as members of its complement following a recent crew rotation away from Vulcan.

Well, not exactly...

Spoiler: MAJOR SPOILER

The T'Kumbra is destroyed in the Borg invasion, during the Destiny series of novels. I don't know if it actually had any non-Vulcan crewmembers at that time, though.

Well, you know what they say about novels and canon, but my point still stands.