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Other than full US characters, there's been, from the major cast members:
Chekov - Russian Sulu - Japanese/American Scotty - Scottish Picard - French O'Brien - Irish Bashir - English/Arabic Kim - Japanese/American Chakotay - Native American Torres - Hispanic (with some Klingon)
Not many there really, and only Picard and Chekov one would suppose come from non-English speaking countries (with the exception of Torres whose whose hispanic origin wasn't really explored). There was also a Hispanic Ensign on TNG called Sonya Gomez, and several minor characters of different extractions. But it's a US TV series, made primarily for the US market, the rest of the world market is merely secondary.
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Oh come on. Is this really a surprise to anyone?
When, a while back, I read in the show bible that "As previously revealed, Reed is also rather contradictory, shy around women and soft spoken despite his regulatory personality" my first thought was 'he's gay'. My second thought was 'what a cliched way to write a gay character'.
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I just have to post this I've just got up to Dukhat's post on the first page - and well, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. LOL! It's given me a saw head and jaw and I'm crying! LOL!
Andrew
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Getting serious!?! again... Bashir/Sid was born in the Sudan... so he's going to have a bit of a slight accent. Presumably Bashir was of Arabic decent too. I wouldn't say "Muslim Character" cause well, the only religion we've seen in Trek has been the Bajoran Faith.
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quote: Finally, in keeping with the attempt to present a more 'out there' look at the cosmos, TV guide revealed that one of the male crew is set to become pregnant. Connor Trinneer (Charlie Tucker) said that his character would experience the "first human male pregnancy" in an episode that he described as "very funny."
There it is, folks. Enjoy.
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I just read the TV Guide article myself...after passing out from seeing what happend to the First Contact spacesuits. Anyway... I really don't know if there should be a gay/lesbian character on Star Trek. Personally I would like to see one just as long as there is a good storyline for him/her being there. Oh, before I forget, if anyone thinks I fall into the typical gay stereotype, I do and I don't and that's the kind of character I would want to see on Star Trek: someone who would hate the ship interiors with a passion and someone who would be as interesting as Garak.
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Now I immediately recognised Garak as possibly being gay, but it was never developed, or confirmed. I think in many ways that was a good idea, because after all, Garak had an abyss of secrets from all facets of his life, and that in my opinion made him one of the most fascinating characters ever seen in Trek.
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Why does everyone always talk about potential gay Trek characters like they have to be male? Who's to say they won't stick a lesbian in somewhere? (This, of course, is not counting the bis in the mirror universe on DS9.)
Actually, a lesbian character would be the most beneficial to the producers. The "gay community" is happy because there's a gay character, and all the fanboys start to tune in every week so they can masturbate to the ships and the lesbians...
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