It's not like "Ferengi as Space Jews" is an original point this author has devised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFerengi#The_Jews_of_Space.3F https://en

It's not like "Ferengi as Space Jews" is an original point this author has devised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFerengi#The_Jews_of_Space.3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFerengi#The_Jews_of_Spa... Though he has overlooked / omitted contradictory references in other places. In the grandest traditions of nitpicky Star Trek apologism on the internet: > In the DS9 episode “Trials and Tribble-ations,” Sisko and his crew travel back in time to TOS to prevent a bombing by the Klingons. To blend in, these travelers change their uniforms to match the color codes of TOS. > [...] > When one of his crew calls Sisko “Captain,” Sisko responds, “Lieutenant, actually. I didn’t want to push my luck.” Sisko provides no other explanation for this hierarchy change. Perhaps he strategically diminishes his own authority to prevent infelicitous questions or scrutiny by other Starfleet officers. However, on the heels of Dax’s remark, another possibility comes into view. As a black Starfleet captain—an impossibility in TOS’s “time”—Sisko would trouble the utopian terms of Star Trek’s future past. Commodore Stone, an officer above the rank of Captain, appeared in the Original Series episode 'Court Martial' and was played by an actor identified as being of Afro-Portugese heritage (though I am not certain if that's how he would have identified as himself; there is no ceiling to the level of semantic wrangling necessary to credibly discuss such topics, and even this is cutting short the dissertation that this disclaimer would need to be in other contexts), whom I'm sure the author of this article would agree fit with his usage of the reductive term "black". source: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Stone_(Commodore) http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Stone_(Commodore) There's also several other captain-or-higher officers depicted by "black" actors in the TOS movies, though those were produced, physically and temporally, TNG-adjacent, by Paramount in the mid-80s. Which is still honestly not a great record. But, as much fun as it is to go Derrida on everything, "Kirk would have serious problems with the idea of a Commander-or-higher-level officer serving on his ship that he had never heard of before." is pretty solid canon to me.