![]() People have been big-upping the show for being racially aware and talking about that context of the show for decades now.Ī bad argument made for decades doesn't become better for it.įair enough. ![]() > And I'm not making this argument out of nothing. If you actually look at who the bad guys in episodes (not who the Federation or United Earth’s astropolitical opponents are) if there is one where skin color is even a concept (often there either isn’t one, or its not a being where skin color is an issue), they are usually White. The Romulans are, like Vulcans, predominatly white exclusively so on screen in TOS, though later shows had occasional non-White Vulcans and Romulans. Appeared in eight of 79 episodes of TOS, and weren't, as a group, “bad guys” (heck, even though they were antagonistic to the Federation, they weren't even the bad guys in some of the episodes thet were in in TOS) in later (in setting) series.Īs a series, they are a little more dense in Enterprise, and in Discovery, deapite being setup in the pilot as the main adversary, they end up not being that even in the seasons set pre-TOS (the first season prime adversary is. ![]()
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