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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 451402" data-attributes="member: 4779">I didn't think it was all of them, just the one that tried to mind-rape T'Pol.  I thought that ep was a great example of diversity.But, on the entire issue of Trek racial diversity:  Most of the different major races (at least in TOS) were basically just humans that represented our different cultures (present day Russians, Americans, etc.) the only difference being that they looked different from us (or concept races, but that's another story).  And Trek has continued that trend over the years.  They weren't trying to create races wholly different than our own.Is it a bit tired?  I guess that depends on the individual viewer.  Personally, I liked Farscape's approach on racial diversity the best but Trek and Farscape are two different animals.And it's true that Trek has changed its approach over the many years.  Stereotypes have run rampant and many of the races have gotten stale.  It's bound to happen with a franchise that has been around for so long (over 500 individual eps!).  Personally, I'm a tad annoyed every time they meet a new bipedal, oxygen-breathing species that looks just like a human with either bumps on it's head or an extra eye or tenticals or something.  But, I take it with a grain of salt because I usually end up entertained in the end which is all that really matter anyway.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Naw, see previous comment about the mind-meld.  Mental powers still in tact.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Although, you bring up an interesting point about the pinch.  I never thought of it as a mental thing!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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