2. Mixed-Species Childrens Lives Suck
From Spock in the Original Series through to Bellana Torres on Star Trek: Voyager, having parents from two different planets is portrayed as pretty dreadful. They cant fit in on their own planet and are usually portrayed as being bullied or outcasts, and they are shown to be either incapable or have a difficult time forming romantic relationships. There are often references to their Vulcan/Klingon/Human half, and how they struggle mentally and psychologically between the two cultures. Rarely is a character portrayed as comfortably celebrating the melding of their parents heritages, and when you think about it, there's a fairly blatant message wrapped up in there. In the world of Star Trek, personality is biologically determined, rejection of ones heritage is normal and pitying or despising one half, is common and societies capable of interplanetary space travel are still bigoted as hell. Shouldn't these multi-culturally amalgamated identities should be celebrated as the embodiment of the show's intrepid spirit, and the quest for a future without boundaries, but instead they are left as outcasts... Spocks parentage is viewed as a disadvantage. (Star Trek 2009) KEhleyr says her, Klingon side can be terrifying, even to me. (TNG The Emissary) Ziyal says, I'm half-Bajoran, and that means, I'm an outcast back home. (DS9 For the Cause)