#i feel like im literally screaming into the void because most trekkies (and official channels tbh) seem to have purged her from existence

[lipstickontheglass1985]

i know human characters on star trek dont bring up their terran home countries that much cause world government and in the presence of alien cultures a collective terran identity is much stronger and the cultures got even more homogenized than now etc. however i feel like weve been robbed of cringefail polish american katherine pulaski. like obv her family has lived in america for quite some time because her last names pulaski instead of pułaska (thats the proper feminine form i believe?) and you could think oh well her family has probably emigrated ages ago and they have no actual connection to polish culture etc. but i feel like katherine is one of those names polish americans born in the us are likely to have? because it has like a close polish equivalent so family could call her that at home. with all that being said. my personal headcannon is that when shes off duty she wears like a futuristic variation of those embarassing "you bet your dupa im polish" tshirts. her signature doctors office joke is prescribing pączki to her patients. she had arguments with worf abt whether busia is a real word (his terran family has poles somewhere like three generations back and he's like "for my great grandmother being called 'busia' would be the greatest dishonor". he gets suprisingly heated in this argument abt the terran culture he claims to not care abt). shes like if your average ciotka z ameryki was a doctor on a spaceship. god bless <3