No Vulcan main characters in TNG and DS9

[The Wormhole]

Funny, after all this time which do we have more of as main or at least prominent characters? Vulcans or Klingons.

Vulcans. Among the main casts, there's Spock, Tuvok and T'Pol and maybe M'Jel (I don't remember if they listed her amongst the main cast or not). In supporting roles there's Sarek, Vorik, Soval, T'Lynn and President T'Rina. Klingons as far as main casts go, Worf, B'Elanna and Ash Tyler. In supporting roles, Alexander, Gowron, Martok, L'Rell.

 

[Frontis]

Another thought came to my mind...when there are several human main characters from earth in every series why can't there also be Vulcans? Ok, this also applies to other species...
And of course not all Vulcans are equal. Like f.e.Spock, Tuvok and T'Pol are quite different.

 

[Artoo Atari]

While it was welcome any time Vulcans showed up on the shows, I always wanted to see Andorians and Tellarites. I realize that pointy ears and bowl-cut wigs were cheaper and easier than blue makeup, antennae, and pig noses, but these guys were co-founders and should've been more visible.

 

[Christopher]

While it was welcome any time Vulcans showed up on the shows, I always wanted to see Andorians and Tellarites. I realize that pointy ears and bowl-cut wigs were cheaper and easier than blue makeup, antennae, and pig noses, but these guys were co-founders and should've been more visible.

It wasn't a matter of budget, since TNG did many more elaborate aliens on a regular basis. Partly it was that, as I said before, Roddenberry wanted to distance his new show from TOS concepts and species and focus on new aliens as much as possible. And partly, IIRC, it was that TNG's makers thought that Andorians and Tellarites were silly-looking and dated.

 

[Qonundrum]

How did you feel about it when you first watched TNG and DS9? Did you miss the Vulcans?

Back in the day, most detractors were wondering, among other things, why Data either acted like a Vulcan or why Data was the most human-acting of the crew! TNG already had to deal with similarities, parallels, and/or regurgitations to TOS so they had to find a new route while still feeling like Trek in the process.

I admit first I was dissapointed when after TNG in DS9 again there was no Vulcan main character.

By the time DS9 was conceived, we'd seen in TNG some Vulcan stuff but Data was already there, and the show was trying to wring out as much as possible from the new creations Cardassians and Bajorans where there was a lot more they could do and think of a lot quicker. (Then later The Dominion as a Big Bad replacement for the Borg, Garak being their version of Q, etc, repurposed archetypes but used in new ways. As with TNG, some old character archetypes did get changed and jostled about, with new ones thrown in to build upon.)

Later all the brilliant characters in DS9 made up for it. But I still think with a Vulcan it would have been even better.
Often I read Data and Odo are similar to Spock but I don't really agree about that and they are no Vulcans in the end.
Looking forward to your opinions about it...

I'm not sure. The break from Vulcan such-n-such may have led to Tuvok being in VOY and that's when the Vulcans really get fleshed out, with a lot of thought and focus put into it. Had the Vulcans been in DS9 to this capacity, DS9 would suffer and lose focus, as would VOY - and VOY had already ditched the "two factions with irreconcilable differences and how they will get along in this uncharted area" shtick.

 

[The Wormhole]

but these guys were co-founders and should've been more visible.

It wasn't until the end of Enterprise S3 the Andorians and Tellarites were canonically established to be co-founders of the Federation. And since then, they have been far more prominent in the franchise than they were prior to Enterprise.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The time has truly come for landing dance parties.....the moment they materialize. How better to improve THE APPLE and others?

Didn't the LD interactive comic, Warp Your Own Way, have something rather like that? Maybe more of a bacchanal (in the most literal sense of the word).