History FantasticRacism / LiveACtionTV

** Glory doesn't even ''try'' to hide her revulsion for humans and human things, or vampires for that matter.

*** The Cardassian occupation of Bajor is unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based. In turn, Major Kira serves to show that most Bajorans consequently despise Cardassians with a racist-like fervor, although it's more understandable because she views them much how Jews would view the Gestapo.

** In "The Grell", humans have enslaved an alien race on the basis that they should be grateful for humans having rescued them from their dying planet. The Grell are looked down upon and treated as disposable by their human masters. Some have escaped and rebelled against them as a result.
** In "Rule of Law", Lavinia Oleaga justifies stealing the Medusans' tritium bricks, which are required for their young to hatch, on the basis that they are "subhuman savages." She adds that their children could die for all she cares.

* In ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', in the future most humans look down on mutants, genetically inferior beings that are the trash and leftovers of the DesignerBabies program. This is not aided by the fact that the most prominent mutants in the series are anarchist terrorists, although how much of that is caused by growing up in a society that hates them, and how much is the cause of society hating them is very, very debatable.
** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' had an episode dealing with prejudice towards androids.
** During that episode, the Rangers go to see alien contact Piggy at his café where all the aliens and mutants flee when they show up.
--->'''Jack''' Why are they scared of us? ''They're'' the monsters!\\
'''Piggy''' Humans! You're so...ethnocentric! Don't you realize that to them ''you're'' the monsters?

* On ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', the "Malibu Sands" episodes feature an example where a character's dislike of an entire state borders on this. Stacy Carosi initially has a rather fervent and irrational hatred of people from California, openly accusing them all of being airheads and Surfer Dude stereotypes, and declaring that she has no time for their supposed ditziness because "I'm from the East Coast." However, her enmity with Zack eventually turns into a romance and she ends up changing her mind about Californians, and Stacy actually ends up transforming into a friendly, ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards the end of her arc.

* On ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'', the Shadowhunters see themselves as the superior species because of their roles as protectors and the fact that they are the descendants of Angels. They view the Downworlders (Seelies, warlocks, werewolves, and vampires) as infinitely inferior and untrustworthy, partially because of their demon blood, while they view humans as just weak and worthless. Even most of the protagonists hold these views.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Kara Zor-El dropped a few rungs on the likability ladder when she called ComicBook/MartianManhunter "Red-Eyes." As seen [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville7-ep04 here]].
* In ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' there was considerable prejudice towards artificially grown humans, called "tanks". One episode actually subverted it, which involved an armored vehicle, whose driver insisted on calling it a tank, while everyone else referred to it as an APC. At one point, the driver blows up when one of the main characters calls it an APC, screaming out "tank", causing T. C. [=McQueen=] (one of the two "in vitros" on the show) to say there's no need for insults when the guy was just correcting them.

* This was a favorite subject for ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Probably the most {{Anvilicious}} example is "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]", which features an alien who is black on the left side and white on the right being chased by an alien who is white on the left and black on the right.
** [=McCoy=] has a few rather nasty things to say about Vulcans, although it's clearly [[VitriolicBestBuds just a way of getting under Spock's skin]]. Spock tends to give as good as he gets, though.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E26S5E1Redemption Redemption]]" has Data placed in command of a ship whose first officer questions his ability by saying, "No one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's counselor or a Borellian could be an engineer. They're just not suited for those positions."
** Data has to put up with this in the early episodes of Dr. Pulaski, who can't fathom why people are treating a machine like a person. She refers to Data as "it," pronounces his name wrong and seems amused when Data corrects her, and repeatedly asserts that Data will not be able to do things that living people can do. By the mid-point of the season, she's learned enough lessons about Data's humanity to recant her views and apologize for her earlier treatment, and for the rest of her season, she treats him as a respected member of the crew.
** In the first appearance of the Cardassians, O'Brien has to grapple with his lingering racism after having fought a war against them. He refuses to admit that he has a problem but eventually has to cop to it and work to put it behind him. Even throughout his run on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', he's still no big fan of the species.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]]", O'Brien's old CO goes on a one-man crusade against the Cardassians, convinced they were still a threat to the Federation. It's shown that the driving force of his crusade is the fact that he's a ShellShockedVeteran who has never forgiven the Cardassians for killing his men.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The Cardassian occupation of Bajor is unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based. In turn, Major Kira serves to show that most Bajorans consequently despise Cardassians with a racist-like fervor, although it's more understandable because she views them much how Jews would view the Gestapo.
** The first season episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]" explores the other side of the coin: not all Cardassians were evil butchers or liked what their countrymen did to Bajor. The episode centers around a Cardassian filing clerk who impersonates one of the most brutal concentration camp operators [[ZeroApprovalGambit in order to get himself publicly executed]] and force Cardassia to acknowledge its atrocities. At the end of the episode, after being found out and released he's murdered by a Bajoran in a hate crime. Even Kira is aghast, saying being Cardassian is not reason enough for murder.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E24EmpokNor Empok Nor]]", a human Starfleet office makes a racist remark when referring to Cardassians (as "Spoon-heads"). This apparently was background dialogue that wasn't written into the script, nor approved by the showrunners. When the final episode print was viewed by production, they were shocked discover a human of Gene Roddenberry's "perfect" human being era to use a racist slur. They left the remark intact after deliberating that the one-time character was under intense pressure to survive a life-or-death situation and therefore, a politically incorrect slip of the tongue would be realistic. The term "Cardie" had already been established as a derisive term for Cardassians that apparently didn't rise to the level of a slur.
** Quark and other Ferengi constantly gripe about stereotyped traits which they dislike about various races, ''especially'' humans, who they refer to as "Hu-maans" in what appears to be a mild epithet. In a TakeThat to Sisko, Quark makes the point that citizens of the Federation hold the Ferengi in contempt since they're a reminder of their capitalist history.
** Several episodes deal with the topic that GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke. Genetic modification is illegal in the Federation out of fear that it will lead to return of supersoldiers like Khan. Genetically modified people are threfore treated somewhat like second-class citizens, forbidden from holding certain jobs, such as joining Starfleet. Various characters debate the fairness of this policy, but everyone seems to admit that there's no one perfect solution.
** [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence AIs]] tend to get the short end of the stick too; characters routinely refuse to believe that Data or the Doctor could have similar rights to biological organisms, and other Zimmerman holograms are subjected to a form of slavery.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E04TakeMeOutToTheHolosuite Take Me Out to the Holosuite]]" features a Vulcan Starfleet captain who openly espouses Vulcan superiority to humans, has written dozens of academic papers on the topic, and even commands a Starfleet starship with an all-Vulcan crew. And yet, amazingly, no-one in Starfleet seems to have a problem with this other than Sisko, for whom it is personal rather than on principle. This flagrantly racist behavior is never labelled as such, even when the captain challenges Sisko and his crew to a game of baseball just to further underscore the point that Vulcans are so superior, they can even beat humans at their own game. Sisko's crew naturally lose, since Vulcans are biologically faster and stronger than humans and most of the Niners have never played baseball before, but they achieve a moral victory nonetheless. He even keeps up his anti-human ranting afterwards, despite half the Niners team being non-human.
** The Changeling Founders mistrust and look down on all "solids", which is essentially anyone who is not a Founder. They justify their racism by claiming that they endured persecution and violence from "solids" in the distant past. Their reasoning: Solids fear Changelings for being different and they persecute, discriminate against, oppress and kill those they fear. The Changelings‘ solution: Persecuting, discriminating against, oppressing and killing those they fear.
** Some Changelings are still the targets of fantastic racism. In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E04AManAlone A Man Alone]]", Odo is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder, and an angry Bajoran mob vandalizes his office and threatens to kill him.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E5Revulsion Revulsion]]", an abused Hologram or "Isomorphic" becomes a SerialKiller obsessed with its revulsion for organic life. Best summarized by Dejaren's unhinged, hate-filled rant at B'Elanna:
--->'''Dejaren:''' I exist as pure energy, but you depend on food and water to survive. Frankly, I find it disgusting. Look at you. Look at you! Grinding up bits of plants and animals with your teeth. Secreting saliva to force it down your esophagus into a pit of digestive acids. You can't even stand to think about it yourself. What a repulsive creature you are, constantly shedding your skin and hair, leaving your oily sweat on everything you touch! You think that you are the height of intellect in the universe but you are no better than any filthy animal and I am ASHAMED to be made in your image!
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E7DragonsTeeth Dragon's Teeth]]", one clue that the Vaadwaur aliens they've [[SealedEvilInACan woken from stasis]] are villains is that Naomi Wildman overhears the Vaadwaur children making derogatory comments about Neelix.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E12Repentance Repentance]]", Voyager helps a damaged Nygean prison transport. Neelix finds out one race, the Benkaran, make up a tiny proportion of the population in Nygean space but are over-represented in the judicial system. But a Bekaran prisoner, Joleg, proves by his actions during an attempted breakout that he seems to deserve his sentence.
* A continuing theme of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', as this {{prequel}} series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civilizations. Early episodes include the Suliban being [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror treated like potential terrorists]] because of the actions of the Cabal, the Vulcans' patronising attitude towards humans (and the human response to it), and [[WithFriendsLikeThese Commander Shran]] -- an Andorian who despises Vulcans and Tellarites, and even refers to his friend Captain Archer as "pinkskin". He refers to all humans as "pinkskins" -- [[HumansAreWhite did he not notice the variety of human skin]]? In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E021TheBreach The Breach]]", Dr. Phlox has to persuade a patient to receive treatment from him as the Denobulans committed atrocities against his species in the past, while in "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E022Cogenitor Cogenitor]]", Trip's attempt to help a repressed minority in a tri-gendered species has a tragic end. Virtually the entire fourth season touched on this trope in one way or another. Xenophobia on Earth increases after the Xindi attack, radical group Terra Prime tries to make political capital over the [[InterspeciesRomance Trip/T'Pol relationship]] by {{squick}}ing out humanity over the idea of Vulcan-human hybrids (even T'Pol's mother brings up "the shame" that such a mixed-race child would feel). And the whole {{Ubermensch}} thing naturally comes up with the genetically superior Augments. And let's not even get into Vulcans shunning those who use their telepathic powers because they spread Vulcan AIDS...
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'':
** It's revealed that Vulcans ironically tend to be racist towards humans, or at least tolerant of casual racism, with open statements by those in authority that humans like Michael Burnham and half-humans like Spock are considered inferior despite admitting that said individuals are just as smart, if not smarter, than full Vulcans. Even Sarek, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch who is much more sympathetic toward humans]], shows signs of this as his goal with Burnham was to mold her into essentially a perfect Vulcan, proving that humans could be equal to Vulcans instead of accepting humans as equals on their own terms. Sarek himself is looked at by other Vulcans as something of a CategoryTraitor for even trying.
** Voq is an albino Klingon, and the other Klingons have discriminated against him all his life, considering him to be a freak of nature.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** Because a bunch of rogue synthetics destroyed the base on Mars, they have been banned within the Federation. Also, in the flashback of "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E02MapsAndLegends Maps and Legends]]", most of the human characters treat their synth counterparts with little to no respect.
** Admiral Clancy reminds Picard that several races threatened to secede from the Federation if the Romulan rescue mission went ahead as planned.
** Zhat Vash, a Romulan cabal, are said to be motivated by a fierce hatred for synthetic life forms, and thus suspected as the people behind the attack on [[spoiler:and murder of]] Dahj.
** The group that suffers from the most discrimination in the Milky Way galaxy are ex-Borg drones.
--->'''Hugh:''' There's no more despised people in the galaxy than the xBs. People either see us as property to be exploited, or as a hazard to be warehoused. Our hosts, the Romulans, have a more expansive vision. They see us as both.
** Xenophobia is still present among Romulans. Some Romulan-owned businesses on Vashti feature "Romulans Only" signs and the planet is the hotbed for the Romulan Rebirth movement. The Zhal Makh, a form of Romulan meditation, is taboo to non-Romulans. The Romulan pejorative for humans is "round-ears" and the Romulan slur for xBs is "half-meat".
** The second season sees Picard and his companions thrust into an alternate timeline where there is no Federation, but an Earth-centric fascist "Confederation" that has conquered most of the known galaxy, subjugating -- if not outright exterminating -- every alien race they have come across. Romulans are shown to be second class citizens who are enslaved by the humans, and annual spectacles are made for the execution of non-humans.
* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E03GhostsOfIllyria Ghosts of Illriya]]", we learn that the Federation's disdain towards modified genetics extends not towards humans but also other races. The Illriyans are a race that used genetic modification to overcome the harshness of their worlds, not to conquer, but the Federation refused them. One colony became so desperate to join the Federation that they were willing to undo all of their modifications, but were wiped out when a virus infected them. As Dr. M'Benga tells Una after she reveals that she, too, is an Illriyan, the Federation traded one bigotry for another.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E05SpockAmok Spock Amok]]", Spock finally reveals that he chose Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy in order to escape the contempt of Vulcans for his mixed-race heritage, while Starfleet didn't care, seeing him as an individual. It's also why he had trouble committing to T'Pring, even having a nightmare about T'Pring refusing to marry him for being half-human and forcing his human self to fight his Vulcan self.

** From the rigged trial (itself hearkening back to the legal woes of many a black man in the South between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era):

* The ''Series/AlienNation'' TV series is largely devoted to the allegory of race relations through Newcomer/Human relations. Matt has a bad habit of using the nickname "Slagtown" for the Newcomer part of L.A., even after his Newcomer partner has made it clear he finds the term offensive. Naturally, the anti-Newcomer groups are fantastically multicultural. There's also racism within the Newcomers; the Overseers (those Newcomers who were in charge of the slaves) go so far as to use the human-invented slur "slag" to refer to "lesser" Newcomers.

* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (and arguably [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 the old one]] too), Humans and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Cylons]] don't get along very well. [[spoiler:As it goes, we discover that Humans and Cylons can ''reproduce''!]] The humanoid Cylons are constructs of a completely fleshy nature, which makes the "toaster" epithet just stupid. [[TruthInTelevision Like real-world epithets]]. They call all Cylons, humanoid or mechanical, "toasters", and the humanoids also get called [[Film/BladeRunner "skinjobs"]].

** Taurons are frequently referred to as "[[FantasticSlurs dirt-eaters]]" in "Series/{{Caprica}}".

** The Fourth Doctor openly treated Leela as beneath him — her culture is roughly Neolithic but with the use of metal weapons and with some SchizoTech elements — and mocks her about it, calling her names and making her believe nonsensical things just because he can. While in most of his stories he retains a respect for her intelligence and she calls him out on it whenever he underestimates her or becomes unnecessarily cruel, [[DependingOnTheWriter this fluctuates depending on how good a grasp of Leela this week's writer has]]. In skilled hands, he comes across as a [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic]] TricksterMentor whose relationship with her is intentionally uncomfortable but ultimately loving and respectful ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock "Horror of Fang Rock"]]), but in unskilled hands as a racist, bullying {{Jerkass}} (a frequent criticism of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy "The Invisible Enemy"]]).

** The Ninth Doctor calls humans "stupid apes" from time to time, although his feelings towards the human race are generally affectionate and he notes them a couple of times to be one of his favourites. He's presumably frustrated by human behaviour because he loves the species so much. [[ForeignCultureFetish Which is a bit racist as well.]]

** During the Eleventh Doctor's retirement in Victorian England in [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]], he displays a lot of this towards his Sontaran ally, insulting his race's looks and suggesting Sontarans are entirely stupid, directly to his face.

** The Changeling Founders mistrust and look down on all "solids", which is essentially anyone who is not a Founder. They justify their racism by claiming that they endured persecution and violence from "solids" in the distant past.

** Lampshaded in the episode "The Geometry of Shadows", where it is revealed that the Drazi [[spoiler:randomly split up into two groups - the "green" and the "purple" - every few years by drawing pieces of cloth out of a barrel. The two groups then fight for supremacy. Attempts by Ivanova to solve this diplomatically and get them to see the other side's view don't work, since there are no differing views, just "Green fights Purple". Fortunately, she solves it by putting the murderous faction in their opponents' shoes (or should we say, sashes) as she accidentally usurps the position of local leader and upon finding this out, promptly orders them to dye their sashes to their opposing color.]]

* In the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' (and arguably the old one too), Humans and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Cylons]] don't get along very well. [[spoiler: As it goes, we discover that Humans and Cylons can ''reproduce''!]] The humanoid Cylons are constructs of a completely fleshy nature, which makes the "toaster" epithet just stupid. [[TruthInTelevision Like real-world epiphets]]. They call all Cylons, humanoid or mechanical, "toasters", and the humanoids also get called [[Film/BladeRunner "skinjobs".]]

* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' certainly plays up the "vampires think of werewolves as mere animals" angle; but there was also this quote invoking the trope directly (after introducing a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]]):

* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', Billy Butcher has made it his life's mission to bring down ([[VillainWithGoodPublicity the secretly villanous]]) [[SuperTeam The Seven]] and their parent company [[Fiction500 the Vought Corp]] because he believes that all Supes are evil, an idea he got after [[spoiler: his wife was raped by [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]], the leader of The Seven, and went missing soon after]]. When Hugie, one of Butcher's companions, begins dating [[TokenGoodTeammate Starlight]], The Seven's newest member, he forces Hughie to use her as an asset to spy on Vought. When Hughie tries to tell him that she is a really nice person who is trying to do the right thing as a superhero, Butcher insists that she's nothing more than a superpowered freak with no redeeming qualities.

* This was a favorite subject for ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Probably the most {{Anvilicious}} example was "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", which featured an alien who was black on the left side and white on the right being chased by an alien who was white on the left and black on the right.
** [=McCoy=] had a few rather nasty things to say about Vulcans, although it's clearly [[VitriolicBestBuds just a way of getting under Spock's skin]]. Spock tended to give as good as he got, though.

** O'Brien's old CO goes on a one-man crusade against the Cardassians, convinced they were still a threat to the Federation. It's shown that the driving force of his crusade is the fact that he's a ShellShockedVeteran who has never forgiven the Cardassians for killing his men.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** In "Dragon's Teeth" one clue that the Vaadwaur aliens they've [[SealedEvilInACan woken from stasis]] are villains is that Naomi Wildman overhears the Vaadwaur children making derogatory comments about Neelix.
** In "[[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Repentance_(episode) Repentance]]", Voyager helps a damaged Nygean prison transport. Neelix finds out one race, the Benkaran, make up a tiny proportion of the population in Nygean space but are over-represented in the judicial system. But a Bekaran prisoner, Joleg, proves by his actions during an attempted breakout that he seems to deserve his sentence.

** The Cardassian occupation of Bajor was unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based. And, in turn, Major Kira serves to show that most Bajorans consequently despise Cardassians with a racist-like fervor, although it's more understandable because she views them much how Jews would view the Gestapo.
** The first season episode "Duet" explores the other side of the coin: not all Cardassians were evil butchers or liked what their countrymen did to Bajor. The episode centers around a Cardassian filing clerk who impersonates one of the most brutal concentration camp operators [[ZeroApprovalGambit in order to get himself publicly executed]] and force Cardassia to acknowledge its atrocities. At the end of the episode, after being found out and released he's murdered by a Bajoran in a hate crime. Even Kira was aghast, saying being Cardassian is not reason enough for murder.
** In "Empok Nor", a human Starfleet office makes a racist remark when referring to Cardassians (as "Spoon-heads"). This apparently was background dialogue that wasn't written into the script, nor approved by the showrunners. When the final episode print was viewed by production, they were shocked discover a human of Gene Roddenberry's "perfect" human being era to use a racist slur. They left the remark intact after deliberating that the one-time character was under intense pressure to survive a life-or-death situation and therefore, a politically-incorrect slip of the tongue would be realistic. The term "Cardie" had already been established as a derisive term for Cardassians that apparently didn't rise to the level of a slur.

** An episode of [=DS9=] "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" featured a Vulcan Starfleet captain who openly espouses Vulcan superiority to humans, has written dozens of academic papers on the topic, and even commands a Starfleet starship with an all-Vulcan crew. And yet, amazingly, no-one in Starfleet seems to have a problem with this other than Sisko, for whom it is personal rather than on principle. This flagrantly racist behavior is never labelled as such, even when the captain challenges Sisko and his crew to a game of baseball just to further underscore the point that Vulcans are so superior, they can even beat humans at their own game. Sisko's crew naturally lose, since Vulcans are biologically faster and stronger than humans and most of the Niners have never played baseball before, but they achieve a moral victory nonetheless. He even keeps up his anti-human ranting afterwards, despite half the Niners team being non-human.

** Some Changelings are still the targets of fantastic racism. In the [=DS9=] episode "A Man Alone", Odo is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder, and an angry Bajoran mob vandalizes his office and threatens to kill him.
* A continuing theme of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', as this {{prequel}} series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civilizations. An early season episodes include the Suliban being [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror treated like potential terrorists]] because of the actions of the Cabal, the Vulcans' patronising attitude towards humans (and the human response to it), and [[WithFriendsLikeThese Commander Shran]] -- an Andorian who despises Vulcans and Tellarites, and even refers to his friend Captain Archer as "pinkskin". He refers to all humans as "pinkskins" -- did he not notice the variety of [[UnfortunateImplications human skin]]? In "The Breach" Dr. Phlox has to persuade a patient to receive treatment from him as the Denobulans committed atrocities against his species in the past, while Trip's attempt to help a repressed minority in a tri-gendered species has a tragic end. Virtually the entire fourth season touched on this trope in one way or another. Xenophobia on Earth increases after the Xindi attack, radical group Terra Prime tries to make political capital over the [[InterspeciesRomance Trip/T'Pol relationship]] by {{squick}}ing out humanity over the idea of Vulcan-human hybrids (even T'Pol's mother brings up "the shame" that such a mixed-race child would feel). And the whole {{Ubermensch}} thing naturally comes up with the genetically-superior Augments. And let's not even get into Vulcans shunning those who use their telepathic powers because they spread Vulcan AIDS...

** Because a bunch of rogue synthetics destroyed the base on Mars, they have been banned within the Federation. Also, in the flashback of "Maps and Legends", most of the human characters treat their synth counterparts with little to no respect.

--->'''Hugh''': There's no more despised people in the galaxy than the xBs. People either see us as property to be exploited, or as a hazard to be warehoused. Our hosts, the Romulans, have a more expansive vision. They see us as both.
** Xenophobia is still present among Romulans. Some Romulan-owned businesses on Vashti feature "Romulans Only" signs and the planet is the hotbed for the Romulan Rebirth movement. The Zhal Makh, a form of Romulan meditation, is taboo to non-Romulans. The Romulan pejorative for humans is "round-ears" and the Romulan slur for xBs is "half-meat."

* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds''
** In the episode "Ghosts of Illriya", we learn that the Federation's disdain towards modified genetics extends not towards humans but also other races. The Illriyans are a race that used genetic modification to overcome the harshness of their worlds, not to conquer, but the Federation refused them. One colony became so desperate to join the Federation that they were willing to undo all of their modifications, but were wiped out when a virus infected them. As Dr. M'Benga tells Una after she reveals that she, too, is an Illriyan, the Federation traded one bigotry for another.
** In "Spock Amok", Spock finally reveals that he chose Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy in order to escape the contempt of Vulcans for his mixed-race heritage, while Starfleet didn't care, seeing him as an individual. It's also why he had trouble committing to T'Pring, even having a nightmare about T'Pring refusing to marry him for being half-human and forcing his human self to fight his Vulcan self.

** Kromaggs hate ''Homo sapiens''' to the point they think that learning their language is degrading, and treat them as slaves and experimental subjects on all worlds they conquer. They also find [[EyeScream human eyes to be some sort of delicacy]]. Humans on the other hand also hate Kromags, or "pig faces" as they call them. In at least one world humans were the bad guys and submit the Kromag to the Holocaust.

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'':

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' has an episode in which Pugsleydel starts acting like a normal boy, finding interest in things like baseball, the Boy Scouts, and a puppy. Of course this is outraging for the family as for them, being normal is incredibly deranged. In an example of tolerance, nevertheless, they do agree to allow him to keep his "quirks" and even show [a pretend] interest in them. The funniest part is that this is the equivalent of a very mainstream family dealing with a Goth son but with the inverted roles.

* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' centuries-long brutal persecution of Wesen is common. Monroe even says that Pogroms and Witch Hunts were actually anti-Wesen attacks and also Nick’s ancestors sometimes killed even peaceful and harmless Wesens like the [[TurtlePower Genio innocuo]]. There’s also Wesen on Wesen racism; Monroe’s parents at first don’t approve Monroe’s relationship with Rosalee because he’s a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Blutbad]] and she’s a [[FantasticFoxes Fuchsbau]] (nor they approve Monroe’s and Nick friendship because Nick is a Grimm). Also a long-term animosity between Blutbad and [[PigMan Bauerschwein]] exists. Monroe also seems to believe that [[NiceMice Mauzherz]] are dirty (or at least shouldn't run a restaurant).

** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E17TheOutcast The Outcast]]" has an {{aesop}} about homophobia delivered by a genderless species, who were all played by women so that the audience wouldn't be subjected to Riker kissing someone played by a guy.[[note]]FWIW, Jonathan Frakes pushed for the love interest to be played by a man.[[/note]] Thus to some it came off as "a straight woman is repressed by her lesbian society", the opposite from the intended aesop. Of course, this also has relevance to gender nonconformity (though again it has a kind of {{persecution flip}} since in this society, having a gender ''at all'' is deemed a mental illness, with the norm being to remain agender) though it wasn't really a mainstream issue in the '90s when this aired.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E26S5E1Redemption Redemption]]", meanwhile, had Data placed in command of a ship whose first officer questions his ability to succeed in such a role thusly:
--->No one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's counselor or a Borellian could be an engineer. They're just not suited for those positions.
** Data also had to put up with this in Dr Pulaski's earlier episodes, in a fairly blatant attempt to recreate the Spock/[=McCoy=] dynamic with Data. This was something of a sore point with the fans, and majorly contributed to Pulaski's status as TheScrappy: unlike Spock, who could feel emotions and just worked to keep them under control as a matter of personal philosophy, Data literally ''couldn't'' feel emotions and ''wanted to''; additionally, Data was way too polite to fire back at Pulaski in the way Spock always did with Bones, meaning that instead of SnarkToSnarkCombat it came across as Pulaski bullying a disabled person who refused to respond in kind. In her earlier episodes, she referred to Data as "it" and pronounced his name wrong; when corrected, she replied, "What's the difference?" while laughing! The writers did attempt to show Pulaski learning to respect Data as a person, but by that point, the damage was done and she was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome unceremoniously booted]] at the end of the season.

** On a few occasions in both ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and [=DS9=], Chief O'Brien has to deal with the question of whether or not he developed a racist dislike of Cardassians as a result of his experiences of fighting against them as a combat soldier in an earlier war, and one episode deals with his former CO, who went on a one-man crusade against the Cardassians, convinced they were still a threat to the Federation (O'Brien helps stop him). In his ex CO's case though it was shown he had never gotten over losing people in the war, perhaps implied as [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] or something similar.
*** In "Empok Nor", a human Starfleet office makes a racist remark when referring to Cardassians (as "Spoon-heads"). This apparently was background dialogue which wasn't written into the script, nor approved by the showrunners. When the final episode print was viewed by production, they were shocked discover a human of Gene Roddenberry's "perfect" human being era to use a racist term. They left the remark intact after deliberating that the one-time character was under intense pressure to survive a life-or-death situation and therefore, a politically-incorrect slip of the tongue would be realistic.
*** Quark and other Ferengi constantly gripe about stereotyped traits which they dislike about various races, ''especially'' humans, who they refer to as "Hu-maans" in what appears to be a mild epithet. In a TakeThat to Sisko, Quark makes the point that citizens of the Federation hold the Ferengi in contempt since they're a reminder of their capitalist history.
** [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Genetically engineered]] humans are treated as potential mass-murderers in the supposedly prejudice-free Federation, to the point of being legally forbidden to have certain jobs. Despite having [[PunyEarthlings superhuman aliens]] and even nearly-indestructible, superstrong, computer-brained [[RidiculouslyHumanrobot androids]] serving in every position of Starfleet. This is because several hundred years previously, some genetically-engineered humans led by Khan attempted to take over the world, and AmbitionIsEvil, [[InsaneTrollLogic therefore all other genetically-engineered humans are evil too]].
*** More specifically, they're afraid that if genetic engineering catches on, what happened with Khan will repeat itself, so they restrict the opportunities of genetically engineered people in order to remove the incentive for people to do it. The trouble is, in many cases, the people getting the enhancements aren't the ones that made the decision (in many cases, it's parents having their children enhanced), so the laws end up punishing people for something they had no say in.

** A continuing theme of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', as this {{prequel}} series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civilizations. An early season episodes include the Suliban being [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror treated like potential terrorists]] because of the actions of the Cabal, the Vulcans' patronising attitude towards humans (and the human response to it), and [[WithFriendsLikeThese Commander Shran]] -- an Andorian who despises Vulcans and Tellarites, and even refers to his friend Captain Archer as "pinkskin". He refers to all humans as "pinkskins" -- did he not notice the variety of [[UnfortunateImplications human skin]]? In "The Breach" Dr. Phlox has to persuade a patient to receive treatment from him as the Denobulans committed atrocities against his species in the past, while Trip's attempt to help a repressed minority in a tri-gendered species has a tragic end. Virtually the entire fourth season touched on this trope in one way or another. Xenophobia on Earth increases after the Xindi attack, radical group Terra Prime tries to make political capital over the [[InterspeciesRomance Trip/T'Pol relationship]] by {{squick}}ing out humanity over the idea of Vulcan-human hybrids (even T'Pol's mother brings up "the shame" that such a mixed-race child would feel). And the whole {{Ubermensch}} thing naturally comes up with the genetically-superior Augments. And let's not even get into Vulcans shunning those who use their telepathic powers because they spread Vulcan AIDS...

** The Calivons take this UpToEleven, as they see any species less technologically advanced than them as akin to animals, even keeping them in a zoo.