Speaking of accents, I wish they'd always let Marina Sirtis use hers when playing Troi. But they didn't want two English accents on the bridge at the same time (even though Marina's is different from Stewart's).
Are there too many white people in Star Trek?
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It depends. There are different degrees of "French accent" besides the stereotypical "Pepe Le Pew" voice that everyone always seems to think of.
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I agree. I never like Troi's voice, especially given that Sirtis's natural speaking voice is so saucy. 
As for Picard, there are a 100 potential reasons for why he would speak with a British accent. I honestly don't know why people focus on it so much. Did people back then actually expect him to sound like Pepe le Pew? That would have been os much worse, for myriad reasons.
As for Picard, there are a 100 potential reasons for why he would speak with a British accent. I honestly don't know why people focus on it so much. Did people back then actually expect him to sound like Pepe le Pew? That would have been os much worse, for myriad reasons.
I think white people and the white point of view are grossly overrepresented in media, film and tv included. We need a greater diversity of cultural and racial and gender perspectives. And given that Trek prides itself on having an inclusive society, I think that diversity of representation and perspective needs to be essential in future Treks.
In the distant future in which ST is envision to exist, I can only hope that color as criteria for almost anything has been eliminated.
I thought he sounded like a Nazi ... or a Star Wars villain.
Or a Roman.I thought he sounded like a Nazi ... or a Star Wars villain.
Not at all. In Voyager, all the white dudes got killed off in the pilot, leaving Tom Paris as the sole representative of his people.
In DS9, the only white guy is O'Brien, an Irish man.
Enterprise had a lot of white people, but not exclusively. And none of these three shows stereotyped.
TV studios are just going to cast based on their audience demographic. They aren't excluding anyone. And they are afterall, a business.
Especially in America, the word "Race" has come to mean "skin color." We've taken the broadest possible definition of a word, and made it the new core definition.
In DS9, the only white guy is O'Brien, an Irish man.
Enterprise had a lot of white people, but not exclusively. And none of these three shows stereotyped.
TV studios are just going to cast based on their audience demographic. They aren't excluding anyone. And they are afterall, a business.
Especially in America, the word "Race" has come to mean "skin color." We've taken the broadest possible definition of a word, and made it the new core definition.
Why should the other option be African and not American?
Hmmm... trying to imagine Data as a black android now. Would that have worked ?
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One thing that's always kind of irked me about Star Trek is that while the series has of course made great strides in promoting diversity on television, they rarely feature long-term interracial relationships. I think the rebooted JJ-Trek is one of the first to do so with Uhura and Spock being a continuing relationship through the three films so far.
Maybe someone can correct me, but it seems that every time we're shown a married couple (or an otherwise serious relationship) they are both the same race. Both of Sisko's wives were also black. Robert Picard's wife was also white. B'Ellana was more or less 'white', except when the story required her to be Klingon for a given episode, and Tom was obviously white. Janeway's fiancé first introduced in "Caretaker" was also white. Tuvok's wife was another "black" Vulcan. Both Phlox and one one wife of his we met were "white" Denobulans.
One of those things that's always sort of lurked in the back of my brain for a while.
Maybe someone can correct me, but it seems that every time we're shown a married couple (or an otherwise serious relationship) they are both the same race. Both of Sisko's wives were also black. Robert Picard's wife was also white. B'Ellana was more or less 'white', except when the story required her to be Klingon for a given episode, and Tom was obviously white. Janeway's fiancé first introduced in "Caretaker" was also white. Tuvok's wife was another "black" Vulcan. Both Phlox and one one wife of his we met were "white" Denobulans.
One of those things that's always sort of lurked in the back of my brain for a while.
I think that's mostly true. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is O'Brien and Kieko.
Good call. I guess I had forgotten about them, possibly as a defense mechanism for Keiko being a thoroughly forgettable character.
I also felt their relationship was among the more realistic portrayed in a series. I liked Kieko too, and found to be an interesting character.
We also had Quark and a Klingon, Bashier and Ezri, Worf and Jadzia, off the top of my head.
^Those are interspecies relations. In the trek universe those seem to be more common than interracial relations 
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