• Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Ok, of the humans, 75% are white.

    And I don’t know which show you watched, but most of Starfleet were humans

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      3 months ago

      My head canon is that TNG, DS9 and Voyager are set in the Kelvin universe, where

      Star Trek 2009 spoiler

      Most of the Vulcans are dead.

      I have no (in universe) explanation for the lack of proportional human diversity, in TNG, in particular, though. I notice sometimes during a rewatch and it does break the immersion.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, in 1990, America was still 80% white. It’s only in the past 30 years we dropped to 61%.