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Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right? (startrek.website)
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Transcription: A side by side picture of Star Trek Strange New Worlds character Hemmer and The Next Generation character Geordi La Forge.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's the same amount of Vulcan science officers! (Maybe even 2½, if you count Burnham's upbringing)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    'Hi we're Starfleet, and we recruit our captains from among the best and the brightest on 150 member worlds, spread over 8,000 light years! But the vast majority of the time, when it's not Jean-Luc Picard, we just get them from this one particular country that accounts for about 4% of the population of Earth. Weird, huh?'

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, well have you looked at the starting salary? And the mortality rate of enlisted... all the smart species know to stay away.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Starfleet is a uniquely human thing. I wonder if the other worlds think we’re weird for wanting to explore the universe.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Vulcans in Enterprise definitely did. All of the other member races maintain their own space force so it really is a human thing even if it’s not a human thing

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait, are you counting T'Pol and Spock? What about Tuvok? He was a science officer on the Excelsior.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I know the actor was the same, but was that the same character?

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