Disclaimer: I am not a Trekkie. I have not seen every Star Trek episode and movie ever made. I cannot quote any dialogue from any installment of the series. I am a casual enjoyer of periodic indulgences in random peeks into the Star Trek universe.
That said, I can't be the only one to notice how racist the Star Trek universe is. The show deals in blatant, nauseating stereotypes in which the alien races that the crew of the Enterprise encounter embody various Earth ethnicities.
Case in point: the Vulcans. They're obviously representations of a caricature of east Asians. Consider that they all have awful bowl haircuts and jet-black hair, their eyebrows are slanted downwards, and they have an infuriating reliance on science, logic, and rational thinking. They're three-for-three on the card of obvious racist stereotypes surrounding east Asians.
Second case in point: the Ferengi. They're just a moderately playful take on Jews. The men wear these bizarre inverse yarmulkes that cover the sides of their heads while leaving the top open and uncovered. They're immoral and greedy bankers and merchants who basically spend their entire existence devising ways to take and hoard other people's money.
I don't know. Even in fictional universes we can't escape our Earth-based bigotry, it seems.
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