Other than TOS cast members, are there other shows' cast members who didn't get along?

[MAGolding]

Apart from poor Schmitter I cannot recall any character of German heritage even being mentioned on any of the shows.I’m open to correction...(no,the holodeck nazi’s don’t count).

Detmar and, potentially, Stamets.

And these might be names retained from a distant ancestor; could be 1/16 German (or less, far into the future). A name from a country doesn't necessarily make you that. I have more French and English than Irish, where my last name arose.

Lieutenant Carl Jaeger in "The Squire of Gothos".

No German characters please! It's American tv, they'd be the villains...

The same way as, during the height of the Cold War, Russian characters like lllya Kuriyakin and Pavel Chekov were villains?

The same way that, only a few centuries after the French were sort of the Nazis of their era, Lieutenand DeSalle and Jean-luc Picard were villains?

The same way that, just 2 decades after WWII, the character of Fuji Kobiaji was a villain in a series set during WWII?

 

[David cgc]

Apart from poor Schmitter I cannot recall any character of German heritage even being mentioned on any of the shows.I’m open to correction...(no,the holodeck nazi’s don’t count).

Jaeger (or possibly Yaeger, depending on who was talking) in "The Squire of Gothos." Trelane was kind of a dick about it.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Perhaps in the future Trek producers will use French actors for French roles, Swedish actors for Swedish roles, Indian actors (Bollywood has plenty) West African actors for West African roles.
When American (or British) actors play most of the roles it makes it difficult to represent whatever nation state they are meant to be. (But I know its cheaper)

I always think that is very limiting, they should cast the best actor for a role, not be given it because they tick the right box. Such as how Yaphet Kotto was in the running for Picard or Sid was considered for Sisko, both very different than what we ultimate got but both of whom would've made interesting characters.

No German characters please! It's American tv, they'd be the villains...

Them or the English

 

[Oddish]

There's a fan theory that much of India and China were decimated in World War III, that's why Starfleet has so few people of those races, relative to current world population.

 

[dupersuper]

Beverly:
Wesley's mom. And widow of Picard's old friend.
Highly ethical.
Has a great 1000 yard death stare.
Uhhh... banged an alien plasma candle ghost once?

Don't forget the dancing.
She apparently is also often suppressing sarcastic comments.

 

[Oddish]

I think Pulaski still edges her out.

Klingon tea ceremony > Ballroom dancing.

 

[The Wormhole]

Detmar and, potentially, Stamets.

Detmer's said to be German in the novels, but I don't think that's ever come up in the show. Then again, her name comes from the novels to begin with, so whatever.

 

[Xhiandra]

I hate that about him and it makes me think a bit less of the show. They have no problem being specific about the origins of other characters, sometimes down to the city they were born in, Sisko is from New Orleans, O'Brien is irish, Worf grew up in russia but Bashir is ambiguously brown and could be arab... or not if the audience is uncomfortable with that.

i thought Bashir was supposed to be English with Middle Eastern roots.
Hence his interest in the Battle of Britain and James Bond-style spy holoadvantures. And tennis. It's not conclusive, of course, but it seems he was being set up as a stereotypical Englishman.
Memory Beta says "Great Britain".

Nitpick about Worf: if current borders are maintained, he was raised in Belarus (Minsk), not Russia.

 

[dupersuper]

i thought Bashir was supposed to be English with Middle Eastern roots.
Hence his interest in the Battle of Britain and James Bond-style spy holoadvantures. And tennis. It's not conclusive, of course, but it seems he was being set up as a stereotypical Englishman.
Memory Beta says "Great Britain".

Nitpick about Worf: if current borders are maintained, he was raised in Belarus (Minsk), not Russia.

After Qo'Nos, Khitomer and Galt.

 

[Hofner]

I always wonder why there are no Eskimos or Sherpas in Star Trek.



On a different subject, one of Crusher's main characteristic is that she's always in favor of violating the Prime Directive.

Robert

 

[Oddish]

And doing illegal autopsies, though that's kind if ridiculous when you think about it. A molecular scan would tell you everything you could possibly need to know about how death occured, and leave the corpse inviolate.

 

[JLBTucker]

Interesting since Siddig is Sudanese

Britain tends to absorb people from places they had involvement in during colonial days, see British Indians

 

[Nerys Myk]

Them or the English

Germans played by English actors.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Germans played by English actors.

The most evil of them all!

 

[JRoss]

My bad. The main reference I was thinking of, a cut scene, has him referring to himself as Oriental and mimicking Fu Manchu (a Chinese stereotypical villain). He speaks Japanese and talks to his Japanese ancestors in unfilmed portions of Star Trek IV. I guess Star Trek IV's script is the only thing that alludes to Sulu's Japanese heritage (and it's very likely, in the ~250 years between 1986 and Sulu's birth, that he had some other ancestors outside of Japanese-American extraction).

He was named Hikaru (as if names mean anything) and non-canon novels describes him as of Japanese heritage, but nothing really beyond that.

Given names don't generally provide an indication of a person's ethnicity. One thing to be aware of is that while in the English-speaking world it wouldn't be out of place to find a person of Mexican descent named Michael instead of Miguel, it gets a bit trickier in other areas.

The origins of the Korean and Japanese languages are murky. Modern Japanese, Chinese and Korean, for example, bear no real relation to one another. Yes, Chinese characters show up in other languages, but pronunciation and all that is not the same. Japanese can transliterate foreign names and words, for instance. They have an entire set of phonetic symbols designed to do just that. But it is really tricky transliterating anything into Chinese because their written characters all have a semantic meaning.

Long story short, a man named Hikaru is much more likely to be of Japanese descent than of anything else. Of course, since our Hikaru was born in San Francisco and seems to be a native English speaker, his ancestors could be from anywhere.

 

[donners22]

They resented her taking over from Gates McFadden as the ship's doctor.

Didn't help that she was getting paid more than them, and kept forgetting her lines to the point she needed cue cards.

 

[dupersuper]

I always wonder why there are no Eskimos or Sherpas in Star Trek.

How do you know there aren't. There are several random native extras that could be Inuit...

 

[Timewalker]

I always wonder why there are no Eskimos or Sherpas in Star Trek.

"Eskimos" is considered a racist word by many now. They prefer Inuit.

As for Sherpas... who knows? Voyager couldn't even find a real advisor to consult regarding Chakotay's culture. It's not likely to be much different for any prospective character from Nepal.

 

[Takeru]

"Eskimos" is considered a racist word by many now. They prefer Inuit.

Not all Eskimo are Inuit, the Yupik and others definitely don't prefer being called Inuit and Inuit should not be used to refer to all Eskimo. Eskimo is racially charged in Canada but not in other parts of the world, the term itself isn't even racist even if it can be in some contexts, their language group is Eskimo-Aleut for example.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

There's also been no dolphin representation, hopefully Lower Decks will address that.