Sayonara

"Technically" in what sense?

Sorry, but I don't see how that's his answer. Natural or not, it must have a cause.

Which episode is it? I haven't bothered with season 4. The episode where he is dragged before the Klingon court is very funny in human-alien relations terms (as well as being a really poor knock-off of ST:VI, of course).

The alliance was officially ratified in 2161. That's like ten years after Enterprise NX-01 was launched. I thought season 3 dragged a bit.

I didn't say that you did. "Change the market" is about as open-ended as you can get.

afaik = As far as I know.

Round and round and round it goes; where it stops, nobody knows.

They don't kill cows because they consider them to be sacred. Killing one is sacrilegious, not unethical.

If they're fakes, they aren't psychic. And if they're not psychics, they can't very well be representative of psychics, can they?

Like I said, I think you would have difficulty spotting it as your media is literally saturated with it. In the UK we sometimes call it reverse or anti-prejudice, because it's going out of your way to point out that 'those wacky different folks' are just like you or me, despite their foibles. Or you may well spot it, but not get why it's a problem for me.

Oh Jeez. Because the associations are made implicitly in the various contrasts with the non-ethnic / non-minority characters. This is usually the product of (or, which is far worse, the premise for) a plot device or character arc.

I think you're getting yourself confused.

No, this is about stereotyping. You have successfully evaded the point by reversing the polarity of your deck plating.

"Predicting" is a misleading word. Psychic powers involve a connection to a source of information that is independent of the receiver - prediction implies informed guessing.

Best suggestion I've heard today.

Ignore the troll. They die without food.

Notice I didn't actually say inferior. Reed is portrayed as a Chocs Away! Brit from a family with a naval tradition. Even if the series were set in the present, that would be so anachronistic as to be a vintage notion. He is also characterised as being the antagonistic, stuffy misery-guts who never has personal encounters, but goes to pieces when he does. This is a typical characterisation of a Brit for American tv, and it's just lazy writing. From Star Trek we expect better. Hoshi, if you remeber, was a bag of nerves when the series started. They devoted whole plots to it, if you remember. Notably the "oh my god, I have such little faith in my ability to translate stuff. Everyone expects too much of me because they say we ASIANS! are a lot smarter than our caucasian counterparts." You probably won't have noticed the inexplicably dismissive looks Archer occasionally gives her (I say Archer, and not Bakula, because I think it was directed that way.) Travis is an odd one. Despite having more hours in space than anyone else on the crew, he is portrayed by the behaviour of the other characters as being tiresomely naive about the dangers of space travel. What's interesting about him is that his dialogue (and to a certain extent screen time) dropped sharply to NOTHING for long periods, as if nobody needed to hear from him.

That post is meaningless. No, I'm saying it doesn't actually affect the decision. The fact is that whether or not we choose to make them our dinner is neither fair nor unfair.

Strawman. Must try harder.

I don't expect you will get it, because you're constantly exposed to media that's saturated with it.

I think his point was that we have wiped out the wild cow by domesticating it over many centuries; not that some arbitrary word in his post is globally applicable.

You have already excluded any attributes of "those" that make being fair to them meaningful. QED.

Are you being deliberately thick? It's all in the writing, not the dialogue I posted.

A character doesn't have to be human to be the subject of appallingly badly-handled writing, and more often than not it's the aliens who become the subject of the human characters' "dilemmas" anyhow. Count the number of condescending conversations between Archer and Phlox, or Archer and T'Pol. Or - oh my god - Archer teaching advanced alien societies how to be more like him. Even better, count the number of times Archer accuses an alien of being inhuman, or having values that differ from his own. I am not sure what coming from the US has to do with racial apologetics, but I'd point out that Travis was raised on a deep space vessel.