Did you see the Hollow Crown? They have one of the King (played by Tom Hiddleston’s) close relatives portrayed by a black actor. I get wanting to have diversity, but it was jarring.

“He was very obviously not-white in TOS and Wrath of Khan. So to all-of-a-sudden make him the whitest of Brits is the very definition of whitewashing”

No, no where in cannon is he Sikh. He rules the area, but his ethnicity is never defined.

My husband has very ethnic name he has inherited from his step-father, who adopted my husband and raised him as his own. The step-father’s entire extended family - even those in the old country- consider my husband and stepson to be part of their family and their clan. Neither my husband nor his son have not a drop of…