Star Trek a United Federation of Underrepresention

In the 52 years Star Trek (ST) has been around it has developed its own geek culture with 13 individual films, 741 episodes across 31 seasons of 7 successful TV series and at least 3 shows more being developed. Since it’s premier in 1966, ST has been praised for its progressive depiction of an egalitarian human future. The fandom has since greatly influenced the Sci-Fy genre and countless other forms of media (Rhodes 29). However there is an underrepresentation problem when it comes to the Latin community throughout the franchise as this paper will demonstrate.