I could never understand how Voyager got thrown light years but a group of aliens could take over the ship and operate the controls like they'd been doing it every day...
Precisely. There are dark and light skinned Klingons as well. Plenty of room to play with, without reassigning a known.
Thus going back to the original point: If they want diversity, they can make their own damn characters.
What the hell is so hard about that? New character, new name, whatever you want it to look like. Probably nobody except the die hard fans would be bitching because "April is AWOL!"
I excused that for three reasons.
One, Vulcan is a desert planet with a thinner atmosphere than Earth, so it made sense for some inhabitants to have much darker skin than others.
Two, Tim Russ was a lifelong Trekkie. I love seeing ascended fanboys like that.
Three, Tim Russ was phenomenal in the role. As weak as Voyager could be, he was always at least watchable.
However, that was Tuvok. Not Spock. Spock was never dark-skinned.
Thus going back to the original point: If they want diversity, they can make their own damn characters.
He was the only interesting character on that show at first. Seven of Nine took that title once she appeared.
They should have blown Neelix, Harry Kim, and that Maqui guy out the airlock by the end of the first season.
I could never understand how Voyager got thrown light years but a group of aliens could take over the ship and operate the controls like they'd been doing it every day...
Precisely. There are dark and light skinned Klingons as well. Plenty of room to play with, without reassigning a known.
What the hell is so hard about that? New character, new name, whatever you want it to look like. Probably nobody except the die hard fans would be bitching because "April is AWOL!"