Why are there so few interracial people in Trek?

Was the actress who played Molly O'Brien bi-racial? There is also the issue of people taking after one side more so you can't tell they are multiracial if you don't already know.

 

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

 

Yes, Hana Hatae's father is a Japanese immigrant and her mother is Caucasian American.

Kor

 

Bashir's father seemed like a sort of working class English guy and his mother seemed to have Pakistani ancestry. Which kind of fits given Pakistani immigration to the UK.

 

Bashir's father reminded me of Danny Thomas, who was Lebanese.

 

And his father was an Iraqi Jew.

 

Oh and France Nuyen is bi racial with a French mother and a Vietnamese father. Though she played an alien.
I do have a question, unless it's particularly stated how do we know which characters might be biracial or mixed race?

 

This has always bothered me.

 

In the world of Star Trek, I interpret "bi-racial" to have a different meaning than how it's currently defined. Caucasian, Asian, African, etc., are all members of one race, the Human race. Bi-racial in the Trek world would be a mixed race like Human and Vulcan (Spock) or Human and Klingon (Torres) or Romulan and Ferengi...or Orion and Bajoran. At least that's how I see it.

 

I believe the OP was about humans in real life and in-universe.

 

I know. I guess I was trying to say that in today's world, we should strive to eliminate the boundaries and divisions we place on each other based on ethnicity and realize we are really just one race, the Human race. I know, easier said than done but we have to start somewhere...or some time.

 

Once the aliens arrive....

 

If that's what it takes!

 

An in universe explanation is probably whatever you want to imagine. Perhaps after the horrors of the wars of the 21st century including widespread use of nuclear weapons that due to possible genetic damage a premium became placed on "pure bloodlines" for a couple of centuries.
That's in universe.
In real life its almost certainly that there are not that many people of clearly mixed racial ancestry in the Screen Actors Guild.

 

Given that Sisko is so in tune with the 20th century race politics and discrimination that went on (is still going on) that he wouldn't even participate in the Vic Fontaine holodeck program because black people wouldn't have been allowed in such a place back in the 20th century, is it so surprising that only a human woman of the same ethnicity would do for an acceptable wife for him?

Good thing Kassidy Yates came along, or he'd have had to wait a lot longer to find a second wife.

(a very cynical pov, granted, and not meant as anything negative about black people, just as an observation about Sisko; yes, I'm aware of the actor's input into these aspects of his character)

 

Perhaps the situation is similar to the human past when populations were sparse, and in this case caused by the discovery of various uninhabited but habitable planets.

 

If we're to believe Simon Pegg's suggestion that Commodore Paris was an ancestor of Tom Paris, it's plausible that Tom is part Iranian (based on actress Shohreh Aghdashloo's ethnicity).

 

Since that would be nuTrek and Voyager isn't part of nuTrek, I don't think that's anything to be concerned about (hopefully!).