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icantspellthings · 3 months ago

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Sometimes, I really do forget that TOS was made in the 60s but then I'm violently reminded of it being an old ass show whenever they make an episode with aliens and it's a toss up between it being a person painted green/blue/red/yellow with silly prosthetics or literally just racists caricature of Asian people but in space.

#star trek #star trek tos #and it's not just klingons too there's like multiple “oriental” type aliens it's insane #remember omegan glory with the asian commie aliens oppressing the American aliens 😂 christ #or the Elaan of Troyius episode where it's got the savage asian women thing going on #even spock was painted “Chinese yellow” to be more alien lol #honestly it is a product of it's time #so it's not like im super mad #*disclaimer i am asian*

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