Hybrid Characters

[Six of Twelve]

In the various Treks, we meet several people who are hybrids with parents or grandparents from different species.

Some examples are Spock, K'Ehleyr, B'Elanna Torres, Miral Paris, Simon Tarses, Tora Ziyal, Sela.

Spock always seemed to want to deny or minimize his human side and think of himself as fully Vulcan. Compare that to both K'Ehleyr and Torres, who seemed embarrassed or even ashamed of their Klingon sides. For Torres, it was to the point she wanted to erase Miral's Klingon DNA.

Simon Tarses concealed his Romulan heritage, saying instead that he was partially Vulcan. But I think he did this for strictly political reasons, rather than any inherent shame about having Romulan ancestry.

Sela was ashamed of her human ancestry, but that's unsurprising considering where and how she was raised. Who knows how she would have viewed het ancestry had her parents had a consensual relationship.

Tora Ziyal seems to have been the most well-balanced and well-adjusted of the Trek hybrids mentioned. Despite her difficulties being accepted on either Bajor or Cardassia, she acknowledged and celebrated both sides of het ancestry, despite acknowledging Cardassia's role in the Bajoran Occupation and her father's shortcomings. I think it did help that she knew that her parents loved each other and that they loved her. Dukat, for all his faults, truly loved Ziyal, and no doubt contributed to how well she turned out.

Compare that to Torres and her parents' rocky marriage, which no doubt contributed to her later struggling to make peace with het Klingon side.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I think Deanna Troi seemed fairly well adjusted. I think B'Elanna had way more issues than K'Ehlayr.

Some other examples are Alexander Rozchenko, K'Ehlayr and Worf's son.
Naomi Wildman. Naomi seemed like a happy, well adjusted child.
Although they only existed in an alternate reality or a reality that ceased to exist, you have Linnis and her son Andrew.

 

[Vandervecken]

Well, in a different sense, 7 of 9 is a hybrid--human and still considerably Borg. Also Icheb. Icheb is pretty well adjusted if rather dull. 7 had a rocky road but seems well on her way to a full life by the end of the series.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Can anyone think of any hybrid characters that weren't half human hybrids. The one I remember was the Klingon/Romulan girl (I can't recall her name). Were there some other hybrid teenagers in the camp they lived in?

In the Voyager episode Scientific Method, Neelix says he has an ancestor who is of a race other than Talaxians. The dormant genetic traits came out when the aliens were tampering with his DNA.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Well, in a different sense, 7 of 9 is a hybrid--human and still considerably Borg. Also Icheb. Icheb is pretty well adjusted if rather dull. 7 had a rocky road but seems well on her way to a full life by the end of the series.

We have other cultural hybrids in Worf and Odo.

 

[Tosk]

Can anyone think of any hybrid characters that weren't half human hybrids.

The aforementioned Ziyal, half Bajoran/half Cardassian. Lwaxana's third child, half Betazoid and half whatever Michael Ansara was playing. Seska's kid with Culluh, half Cardassian/half Kazon. And almost Saavik, who was supposed to be half Vulcan/half Romulan.