Why are there so few interracial people in Trek?

[JRoss]

Hmm, never noticed this as a problem before. Or at least never considered that Star Trek, of all properties, needed singling out as a poor example.

For the purposes of this argument I'm excepting TOS, as they did a lot for the time and really didn't have children or serious relationships featured prominently. That said, How many of Kirk's ladies of the week were portrayed by non-white women?

When we come to TNG there's the DeannaWorf romance, which, yeah, human/alien (half-human/alien) thing, but it really was a white woman and a black man onscreen in a relationship. Keiko and Miles were the only "real" couple on the show, and they were interracial.

Ds9: We've got Bashir (half-Sudanese) and any lady he was with, IIRC, all of whom were portrayed by white women.

On Voyager the plan seemed to be Chakotay and Janeway to start, and after that it became Chakotay and Seven. They also were working on (but stopped to do Wang being a diva) Seven/Harry. Tom and B'Elanna was an example of a white dude and a latina lady.

 

[Nerys Myk]

For the purposes of this argument I'm excepting TOS, as they did a lot for the time and really didn't have children or serious relationships featured prominently. That said, How many of Kirk's ladies of the week were portrayed by non-white women?

France Nuyen (French-Vietnamese) and BarBara Luna (European-Filipino) are the only ones that come to mind.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Hana Hatae. Her mother is standard issue white Californian. Her father is Japanese.

Given the historically large numbers of Hispanic and Asian Californias, "standard issue" seems quite peculiar.

 

[Griffeytrek]

Hmm, never noticed this as a problem before. Or at least never considered that Star Trek, of all properties, needed singling out as a poor example.

For the purposes of this argument I'm excepting TOS, as they did a lot for the time and really didn't have children or serious relationships featured prominently. That said, How many of Kirk's ladies of the week were portrayed by non-white women?

When we come to TNG there's the DeannaWorf romance, which, yeah, human/alien (half-human/alien) thing, but it really was a white woman and a black man onscreen in a relationship. Keiko and Miles were the only "real" couple on the show, and they were interracial.

Ds9: We've got Bashir (half-Sudanese) and any lady he was with, IIRC, all of whom were portrayed by white women.

On Voyager the plan seemed to be Chakotay and Janeway to start, and after that it became Chakotay and Seven. They also were working on (but stopped to do Wang being a diva) Seven/Harry. Tom and B'Elanna was an example of a white dude and a latina lady.

Geordi while mainly unlucky in love did seem to have a fairly broad spectrum of interests.

Harry Kim seemed to mostly a self service participant in the games of love. So technically his main lover was Asian... well okay there was that one Alien chick, but Janeway threw him in the brig for that one. I think Harry Kim is the only Starfleet officer to ever be jailed for sex with a hot Alien chick. They didn't even reprimand Riker the numerous times his Alien explorations nearly destroyed the Enterprise. (Not even that one time he let his girlfriend drive and she DID destroy the ship!)