We're getting into a really weird subject that Star Trek never covered. There is no way everyone from a single planet looked the same and had the same culture. There should be bagel shops in Klingon, and multiple languages to go with that shop.
It was easier to tell the story as if the planet only had one culture of several billion people. Tuvok was a sign of this thought process, but not an end result of it. I doubt Star Trek will ever really cover these ideas because the stories would get too convoluted.
An extremely good point! You almost never see ethnicities of demi-humans or aliens done naturally in this type of shit. Ethnic variants come about via long-term evolution in different climates. There's a reason people can look as different as they do, and it's not culture-based. But then you put someone like that in a setting where they are the odd one out, for dIvErSiTy. It makes no sense in medieval fantasy settings. Star Trek though, everything is already being brought together by the Federation, and the various races are all space-faring, so cultural isolation can only be a choice rather than nature taking its course.
We're getting into a really weird subject that Star Trek never covered. There is no way everyone from a single planet looked the same and had the same culture. There should be bagel shops in Klingon, and multiple languages to go with that shop.
It was easier to tell the story as if the planet only had one culture of several billion people. Tuvok was a sign of this thought process, but not an end result of it. I doubt Star Trek will ever really cover these ideas because the stories would get too convoluted.
An extremely good point! You almost never see ethnicities of demi-humans or aliens done naturally in this type of shit. Ethnic variants come about via long-term evolution in different climates. There's a reason people can look as different as they do, and it's not culture-based. But then you put someone like that in a setting where they are the odd one out, for dIvErSiTy. It makes no sense in medieval fantasy settings. Star Trek though, everything is already being brought together by the Federation, and the various races are all space-faring, so cultural isolation can only be a choice rather than nature taking its course.