#actually edit Spock's nonhuman features OUT of the photos bc they were So convinced it was a bad idea)

[brittlebutch]

Spock being the only depicted nonhuman member of the TOS crew is like,, you can come up with a lot of clever/interesting watsonian explanations for why that is but none of them will ever make any sense in the broader depiction of canon. the doyalist 'network/budget constraints' explanation is basically the Only tangible justification for this and you have to just allow yourself to say "There are other nonhuman crewmembers, actually, it's just Coincidence that we as external viewers never see them on screen"

#N posts stuff #beta canon agrees emphatically on this point but i know not everyone reads it. it's still Right though #like.. Every Other show/movie/book/comic/etc. AND Every Other ship/starbase/whatever Has that alien diversity #and so there is like. No Way to make 'TOS enterprise is the ONLY ship that is 99.99% human' a sensible option #the same argument applies to nonhumanoid aliens in starfleet -- they Do exist we just coincidentally never see them on the cameras #like. they really had to Fight just to keep Spock on camera (early promo material the network made for the show would #actually edit Spock's nonhuman features OUT of the photos bc they were So convinced it was a bad idea) #so you see meta like 'Spock is part of a devastating minority - he's the Only nonhuman on his Ship' and it's like. i DO see where you're #coming from but. as much as i would Like to meet you there it simply doesn't make any sense at all i think. sorry :/