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Star Trek is not, and never was, particularly progressive

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Again, these were American shows made with television budgets. Also, since TNG all Vulcans have bowl cut hairstyles, which is not a particularly prominent hairstyle nowadays (if ever). So at least some effort was made to make the Vulcans seem more alien, along with the pointed ears and prominent eye brows.
Indeed, but in Picard the somehow cast that away again.

You claimed that "ever other country" had homogenized into a brown skin complexion, which is not the case.
No, I claimed that every country in the Americas was; your argument about racism in Europe does not address that either in the correct geography, nor does it even speak of skin color homogeneity.

There weren't Vulcans or Romulans portrayed by black actors until there were. I don't think there were Klingons portrayed by black actors until Michael Dorn. (I'm hoping I'm wrong about this.) Why should Bajorans be a special case? You're trying to make it seem that they cast a black actress as Jake's Bajoran girlfriend for purely racial reason, but without evidence, you're claim is just pure speculation.
Firstly, with Klingons the actor may have a race, but since that is completely hidden by the makeup the character does not. — There is no way to tell that Worf and Martok are played by actors of very different skin tones.

Pure speculation in this case is requiring the existence of cosmological coincidence for it not to be the case; if it were a crime to do this, it would be enough enough to convict them in a court of law based on statistics that there are very few black characters in the title, no other Bajorans, and the one that Benjamin and Jake Sisko end up with just happen to be?

It is true that there was obviously no greater reason behind Tuvok's skin color than it simply existing, a bit implausible for a desert planet with a homogeneous climate and I like that all Vulcans had the skin tone humans had that live in deserts, but I accept it, but then Tuvok's spouse and family came along and they also deviated from the common Vulcan skin tone that had been shown for all Vulcans except Tuvok hitherto? That is again an implausible coincidence to not be a deliberate act.

Too bad you don't watch Voyager, the Banea are right up your alley.
They still insist on having the males play by human male actors, and the females by human female actors.

Welcome to the 90s and early 00s.
Yet it still goes on today in Star Trek, and it did to a far less extent i, say, Star Wars in the 80s already. Of course there we exceptions such as the Xindi Aquatics, but these were rare in Star Trek, and more common in Star Wars.
 
MIchael Dorn was probably the first black actor to portray a Klingon, but he was not the first non-white. Branscombe Richmond played one of the Klingons in STIII:SFS, and one or more others may have been portrayed by indigenous actors (and one of the Klingons looked suspiciously like Captain Hook).
Ned Romero ( Chitimacha Nation) played Krell in "A Private Little War",
 
That depends… what the hell is the OP actually saying? I’m still not sure.
  • George Takei and Garrett Wang cannot play Asians
  • Everyone in the will be brown in the future because sex
  • Anglo Saxons don't like nudity
  • All beaches in Europe are nude beaches
  • Only U.S.A has racial strife
  • Aliens shouldn't have boobs
  • Something about "North American" gender roles being expressed through haircuts.
  • A lot of other gibberish.
 
  • George Takei and Garrett Wang cannot play Asians
I never said this and I never mentioned the word “Asian”.

  • Everyone in the will be brown in the future because sex
I did say this.

  • Anglo Saxons don't like nudity
I did say this, but not in the O.P..

  • All beaches in Europe are nude beaches
I said “in large parts of Europe”, but yes.

  • Only U.S.A has racial strife
I never said this, and I never touched upon racial strife.

  • Aliens shouldn't have boobs
No, reptilian aliens; Obviously it is fine of Mammalian aliens have them.

  • Something about "North American" gender roles being expressed through haircuts.
I said something about that, yes.

It's really not that hard to understand. If you find it hard to understand it's simply looking for a deeper meaning behind it than what's said, or expect it to be about something it is not, which makes you confused.
 
Something about Star Trek not being the way he likes it.

So...it could be anything. :shifty:
Or it could just be what I said it was, which isn't hard to understand:
  • “Races” as we know them today stil existing 300 years into the future
  • Too many U.S.A. characters; too little of the rest of the world
  • Aliens following human secondary sex characteristics
  • Even entities such as holograms, clouds of gas, and liquid lifeforms somehow having a “male” and “female” “gender”, and with that I mean “gender”, not “sex”.
  • Both humans and nonhumans alike following contemporary U.S.A. fashion standards 300 years into the future
It is really quite simple and easy to understand what I dislike.
 
? They didn't hide the skin tone of either Hertzler (Martok) or Dorn (Worf). They obviously don't appear to be of the same ethnic background.
Looking it up, Worf has slightly darker skin, but there is no way to tel what the actor's actual skin tones are under all that makeup:

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Correct. And it seems pretty effing clear that you can:

https://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/7x22/intothewind_610.jpg
Is this sarcasm? Worf's skin might be in the neighborhood of Michael Dorn's, but Martok's skin is several degrees darker than J.G. Hertzler's.
 
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