Dr. M.A. Davis: And Geordi is from Somalia! Sisko is the first major Black character to actually be African-American.

I feel like “darts” is the odd item out in this list of (presumably) Americana. In any case, a gentle reminder that the USA has hundreds of missiles carrying nuclear warheads ready to launch… …and that the President of the United States has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority.

I don't think Quark is naming American things, he's naming Earth things, and all he knows is stuff Bashir, Sisko, and O'Brien have shown him, which includes darts.

the (rather grim) implication of 60s-90s Trek is that the US was the big winner of the Eugenics/Third World War.

(Sulu is from San Francisco. Kim codes Asian-American very hard. Sato is from Japan. We don't see an Asian from Asia as a major character until I think Georgiou on Discovery? One or two South Asian characters.)

Uhura is from Kenya, fwiw.

And Geordi is from Somalia! Sisko is the first major Black character to actually be African-American.

Given that his parents were senior officers in Starfleet, I'm surprised he was born on Earth at all!

It's actually kind of funny that almost all of the human characters are actually from Earth, despite the huge presence of humanity in space.

Kirk was born in space in the Kelvin timeline, but I don't think that's canon otherwise.

Dr. Crusher was born on the Moon, which is odd since her grandmother was from a distant colony.

her mother died young and left home, it sounds like. a lot of unspoken and barely-discussed tragedy in her life.

mother dead, father not seemingly in the picture. widowed. really quite horrific family curse that almost got her. one son elevated to a higher plane and not allowed to see her, another son in Season 3 of Picard, a terrible situation for anyone to be in.

It's the candle's fault?

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