"Homosapiens Only Club" ??

[c0rnedfr0g]

Present company accepted, of course.

Any idea how many aliens we will see as members of Starfleet (on the Enterprise, Kelvin, or otherwise), or will this largely be an HOC ????

 

[Michael]

We know of five alien Starfleet members so far ...

• An Orion woman (from the trailer; confirmed to be a crewmember)
• Two unnamed aliens from the spy pics
• An unnamed alien from the trailer (at about 1:11)
• And Spock

This ain't no Homo Sapiens Only Club.

 

[Rarewolf]

This ain't no Homo Sapiens Only Club.

Which TOS canon would rather suggest it should be with honorable exceptions.

 

[Timo]

Then again, TOS blends right into TAS, which in turn gives the impression that nonhumans have long (since the beginning?) been standard aboard Starfleet ships. TMP then maintains the format of lots of latex aboard the Enterprise, setting the example for the remaining TOS movies.

It could be that Starfleet largely segregates its crews, for practical reasons, and that Kirk in TAS and TMP had his turn as the captain of the token "mixed" ship that the Fleet maintained for political reasons. Or it could instead be that Pike had run an exceptionally segregated ship (perhaps out of racist reasons), which Kirk inherited for his 5-year mission and only slowly transformed into something more like the Starfleet norm.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Then again, TOS blends right into TAS, which in turn gives the impression that nonhumans have long (since the beginning?) been standard aboard Starfleet ships. TMP then maintains the format of lots of latex aboard the Enterprise, setting the example for the remaining TOS movies.

It could be that Starfleet largely segregates its crews, for practical reasons, and that Kirk in TAS and TMP had his turn as the captain of the token "mixed" ship that the Fleet maintained for political reasons. Or it could instead be that Pike had run an exceptionally segregated ship (perhaps out of racist reasons), which Kirk inherited for his 5-year mission and only slowly transformed into something more like the Starfleet norm.

Timo Saloniemi

Well don't we know that the USS Intrepid had nearly a 100% Vulcan crew??