Star Trek discriminate Germans

[MiroslavSFCenter]

How do we know there were no German characters? Surely there were characters with German surnames. You can't go by the accents in Trek, you know. After TOS, they didn't bother that much with fake-o Hollywood versions of this accent or that one.

Ohhh, you're smaaaaaaaaaaaart!

So, you basicaly sayin' "there is Greman characters, but they are viral in nature, hidden, just like clues on the ST XI viral sites".

So, there were two good German characters, right? Excluding family, that's one more than French characters or Sudanese characters, etc. I don't really see how that's discrimination. The show isn't designed to get as many Germans as possible in it.

Ohhh, please Jarok tell me you didn't compare two TOS/TNG German redshirts with captain Picard screentime?

BTW. this show is designed to show as little Germans as possible, only in if we exclude nazi-stereotype episodes.

Also, I don't think most Germans are so stupid as to watch a show only because it has German characters.

Whoaaa, baby, you missed whole goal. That is not the point od this topic, read carefuly.

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So, it would be fair that chief engineer in the next Star Trek series come from Germany. For example Lt.Cmdr. Manfred Von Braun, in honour to Werner Von Braun.

 

[Michael]

Also, I don't think most Germans are so stupid as to watch a show only because it has German characters.

Whoaaa, baby, you missed whole goal. That is not the point od this topic, read carefuly.

Actually you are correct, I just noticed that I misread what AJ had written.

 

[captcalhoun]

no, it should be a woman from Munich called Helga von Braun

 

[T'Boggan]

Being of Italian decent, I started to think where are all the latin types. Then I remember, they were wearing red shirts waiting to get pasted by the nearest alien threat! Pah

 

[Michael]

Or how about no-one with the name 'von something'? In my whole life I never met anyone with a name like that.

 

[captcalhoun]

alright, Helga Schwarzenneger or Helga Schwartzkopf or Helga Weiss

 

[MiroslavSFCenter]

Or how about no-one with the name 'von something'? In my whole life I never met anyone with a name like that.

I would like to see German character like Oliver Khan.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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[Michael]

^ Erh, I can't stand this guy.

 

[Alrik]

TNG almost over compensated. In the first season alone it gave us Paul Manheim and Kurt Mandl.....

 

[Mach5]

^ Erh, I can't stand this guy.

But Oli would make a great Orion, don't you think?

 

[MiroslavSFCenter]

^ Erh, I can't stand this guy.

But Oli would make a great Orion, don't you think?

Oli would be perfect blonde Klingon. I just hope that Klingons have blonde types.

 

[Mach5]

^ Erh, I can't stand this guy.

But Oli would make a great Orion, don't you think?

Oli would be perfect blonde Klingon. I just hope that Klingons have blonde types.

Acually, I think Gerald Asamoah would make a great Klingon.

Oli Khan is too fugly to be an Augment, but I still think he'd make a brutal Orion.

 

[MiroslavSFCenter]

Oli Khan is too fugly to be an Augment, but I still think he'd make a brutal Orion.

Hmmmm, you got the point. If I remember, Orions have some sort of metal necklace around biceps, just like Oli's captain ribbon.

Hmm, offtopic, I think that Robert de Niro would be perfect Ferengi.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Meh. Surely Germany is not alone in that: where are the Vietnamese? The Greeks? The Brazilans? I can almost sympathize with the OP, since it's been a long-time wish of mine of having more Italian people in Star Trek, but it's not discrimination, and surely not exclusively against Germans.

 

[StephanieFaith]

Who cares which countries are represented when you have big ears and thick black arched eyebrows...?

 

[StephanieFaith]

Who cares which countries are represented when you have big ears and thick black arched eyebrows...?

 

[Misfit Toy]

^ Erh, I can't stand this guy.

But Oli would make a great Orion, don't you think?

Tint him green and he'd look like the Hulk.

 

[Tomalak]

The OP makes a fair point about the Nazi obsession, but that goes for pretty much all mainstream western media. How many Hollywood movies are still made about the second world war? There usually seems to be at least one in the Oscar or Bafta nominations. Not to mention all the pulp history books you see in railway stations and the like.

Nazi Germany is an Anglo-Saxon obsession. They've passed into the vernacular as a sort of semi-comedic bogeyman, so it's not surprising that Star Trek has bought into it on occassion.

 

[MiroslavSFCenter]

Who cares which countries are represented when you have big ears and thick black arched eyebrows...?

Yeah, only important thing is that characters have anglo-saxon names.

 

[MiroslavSFCenter]

The OP makes a fair point about the Nazi obsession, but that goes for pretty much all mainstream western media. How many Hollywood movies are still made about the second world war? There usually seems to be at least one in the Oscar or Bafta nominations. Not to mention all the pulp history books you see in railway stations and the like.

Nazi Germany is an Anglo-Saxon obsession. They've passed into the vernacular as a sort of semi-comedic bogeyman, so it's not surprising that Star Trek has bought into it on occassion.

Yeah,. On the other hand they ignore another criminal system: communism, and huge atrocities, comparable to nacism.