1. What's a typical American?
2. Why?

Because in the former situation the percentage of white men in the cast is the same, and still exceedingly dominant.

Roxann Dawson is Hispanic. But you definitely make a good point.

So Q becomes a Star Trek fan? Er, more so?

My guess is that he's probably not older than Kirk, as Kirk was a 25 year-old cadet in 2258, because he started at the Academy later than his Prime counterpart. That's plenty of time for Sulu to become a Lieutenant and still be younger than Kirk. But, that also means that if he is the same age as Sulu Prime, then…

Apparently TrekMovie agrees, at least regarding one particular spot:

Anyone younger than Kirk in this universe is possibly, even probably, a completely different person.

So was I. Stupid text not making tone clear!

They do in lots of languages, but that's not the type of article referenced here.

Especially since, as much as I like those movies, they kind of traffic in a lot of gay panic jokes.

Only Captain Boday's head is an energy blob, at least that's what it looks like inside that clear skull.

That was Zephram Cochrane, in the episode Metamorphosis, but he was in denial.

He was given the role of decoy captain in Into Darkness, similar to how Chekov was used in Star Trek V (though probably more likely as a reference to Sulu's eventual captaincy). After his monologue, McCoy joked that he wanted to be reminded never to mess with Sulu.

My problem would be more that a POC is replaced with a POC, making it a relatively lateral move, compared to if they recast, say Kirk or McCoy as a black woman.

Well, two years earlier, he was a regular on Go On, so I think he's been game for a TV series for a while.

I've heard nearly identical stories about his guest appearances on The Simpsons and Deep Space Nine.

My fifth grade teacher read this to us as well.

And Zemeckis-Silvestri.

George Segal, famous for playing Nick in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and now the grandpa on The Goldbergs.

I tried to convince a club in my high school to go see that show. For some reason I feel like it was the French Club, which wouldn't make much sense, though we did go see Les Miserables.