… Bashir is clearly intended to be of middle eastern or perhaps Indian descent, somewhat obvious from the actor. And the episode with his parents, also both clearly not white.

Great, now I am even more upset it was canceled

Ich glaube, um sich dafür zu qualifizieren müsste die Aussage auch auf deutsch sein.

Does Odo actually qualify for this? He can feel and comprehend and interpret emotions just fine, he is just deadly shy and insecure behind his stoic enforcer facade.

The doctor doesn’t fit either, just because he is modeled after an egomaniac asshole does not mean he is autistic.

Ah right, thats a great example too. Also the elusive tholian ambassador who is referenced a bunch of times

I don’t know the episode name, but I recall them being mentioned during the metamorph episode, I think she is named kamara or something.

At one point the ferengi (who try to steal her and have infiltrated the ship for that purpose) try to chat up captain Picard and the ambassador who is caring for her, Geordi takes them away to “show them the dolphins”.

Supposedly the federation is a lot more diverse than humans with weird ears, noses or foreheads. Just that the old shows did not really have the budget and / or ability to make convincing, actually alien looking species. TAS can get around this by being a cartoon, modern shows use plenty of animation.

But even in TNG is a running joke about the cetacean officers that are always off screen of course. But supposedly there is a whole part of the ship under water where intelligent dolphins are doing their duties as crew members.

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Probably alluding to the quirky info bit no.36211, namely that pigs can orgasm for 30 minutes to 4 hours depending on who tells you about it.

Technically all those are all the emh though.

You mean, one?

Hot take: I found him acting better before the bearded wrecking ball aesthetic. His acting always seemed a bit wooden to me, but after the change he leaned more into it in my opinion. Definitely not saying he is a bad character or actor of course, he is still my second favorite captain after Picard.

Might just be kids being kids. If the parents like it it’s by default dusty and not cool. Eventually they come around, at least I did on quite a few things I found lethally boring as a kid.

He could have played the dreadlock ghost twins from reloaded as well

Fair enough, I was only aware of the garak x bashir ship

Yes yes I know the narrative. Gay is cool

Actually I’m just not big on tv romance in general.

Actually, I’m good. I prefer them as unlikely platonic friends

As someone who was a bit underwhelmed with starfield, it’s way better lol.

For example: gravity generators don’t exist, ships are essentially large skyscrapers with a big thruster underneath. Gravity is created only by accelerating the ship, and decelerating a vessel is done by essentially turning the ship around 180 degrees and firing the thrust in the opposite direction. G-forces are also non trivial. Pilots are known to pass out or even die from flying too recklessly.

Warfare is also very similar to modern day doctrines, weapons are torpedos and missiles with computer-guided point defense cannons as defensive measure against them. Larger ships have a railgun or two, energy shields don’t exist. Getting hit by a railgun shot or torpedo usually spells doom for any ship.

Should you choose to watch the show, this is the initial setting: mankind has developed a very fuel efficient method of propulsion, and used it to colonize Mars and build mining habitats near asteroids.

Earth suffers from a resource shortage and overpopulation, and Mars has declared itself an independent nation. They are technologically more advanced than the complacent earth, but far fewer in numbers. They are also very nationalistic and militaristic.

The third faction is made up of the belters, a term for the humans who live aboard the mining habitats in the asteroid belt. The long time in space has made it difficult to impossible for them to live within planetary gravity. They are largely marginalized and exploited by both larger powers for resources.

The expanse.

I highly recommend if you like low sci fi with lots of attention paid to realism.

IIRC that was the intent for her role, a quirky engineer as a love interest for geordi. But apparently their dynamics didn’t work out and she got dropped