– Avery Brooks
[image description: six gifs, each a short loop featuring different Star Trek characters from various series, all played by Black actors (all playing human characters except where otherwise noted), and overlaid with parts of a quotation (by Avery Brooks, who played the role of Benjamin Sisko), as follows:
ST:TOS’s Lt. Nyota Uhura, smiling and speaking to someone out of frame; text “brown children”;
ST:TNG’s Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge and the El-Aurian Guinan seated across from one another in a booth in Ten-Forward; text “must be able”;
ST:DS9’s Capt. Benjamin Sisko, seated in the Defiant’s command chair, lacing his fingers together contemplatively; text “to participate”;
ST:VOY’s Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, looking quizzically at someone off-screen; text “in”;
ST:ENT’s Ensign Travis Mayweather, climbing upside-down along a bulkhead in zero-g; text “contemporary”;
ST:DSC’s Cmdr. Michael Burnham, smiling tearfully at something or someone behind the camera position; text “mythology”;
quotation in full reads “brown children must be able to participate in contemporary mythology”.
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