Humans Are White: Difference between revisions

*** While there are virtually no ''religious'' Jewish people on Star Trek, three of [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original series']] regular cast members were ''ethnically'' Jewish, including two of the [[Power Trio|three main leads]]: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Walter Koenig. (Also worth noting: the famous Vulcan hand gesture was inspired by the way Kohenim, or Jewish priests, bless their congregations.) It's also notable that there aren't a lot of particularly devout members of ''any'' Human religion on [[Star Trek]], the sole exception being [[Star Trek: Voyager|Chakotay]] who grew up in a colony explicitly centered around a Native American animist culture.

**** The lack of religiousness was a deliberate choice on part of Gene Roddenberry. According to him, everyone in the future of Star Trek was an atheist, and better for it.

** Supervillain Khan Noonien Singh was suggested to be an Indian Sikh on his first appearance, which was confirmed in one of the Trek novels. Part of his [[Backstory]] involves fleeing the anti-Sikh pogroms that took place in New Delhi after Indira Gandhi's assassination. Of course, Khan is played by [[Fake Nationality|Ricardo Montalban]] and his Sikhism is never directly established onscreen.

*** Between the fact that Marla McGivers initially declares that his features look Sikh, and that his last name is then revealed to be ''Singh,'' it's pretty clear that he is ethnically a Sikh. Though the fact that he's clean-shaven means he is not an observant one.