@Afterlife I think they are. If you check a text and a string search of the database of words spoken, you will see that at least 5 times, the French were mentioned

@helenoftroy2000 Maybe only because Captain Picard was from France.

@Alyosha but they seem to be more specifically modelled on Jews! I was amazed Hollywood let that go

@ekwalizur In the very first episode Data compares them explicitly to Yankee traders. The Jewish stereotypes about big noses and such seems to be coincidental.

@Alyosha actually the way were initially intended is very different from how they evolved. By DS9 their values and them always being played by Jews seemed very stereotypical. They even had a Merchant of Venice episode

I wasn't even thinking about the noses but now that you mention it, good point

@KiwiDan
Dawkins covered it in his extensive research. Romulans are a direct biological offshoot of Vulcans and share common ancestors.

@KiwiDan Ferengi you mean

@WolfGirlwh0r3 I meant the ones that are aggressive and unreasonable. But Ferengi works too

@Tastyfrzz Best answer!

@Thevy29 Actually a referral to a different continent. Yet it is supported by the Ferengi.

@IM5688 Please look up where republics came from as well a the terms "Republican" and "aristocrat". 😂

I do mean the Etymology of those two words!

Plutonians is a direct referral to Plato! Who wanted Republican senators. Plato's Republic. And aristocrat is a direct referral to Aristotle.

Both were against democracies. So was Socrates. Socrates himself was will killed for being subversive (controlling).

@Roundandroundwego please remember that I am equally against capitalism. Communism is not against capitalism. China is a prime example of capitalism at its worst. The corporate entity is totally capitalistic. And China has thousands of them.

@DeWayfarer communists are the only coherent political opposition to capitalism. Nothing you can do, it's only going to get worse, the West is fascist and nothing you can do, communism is something you lie about forever and voila! Hopelessness is your only fate.
As a leftist I get your gaslighting smug stance!

@Roundandroundwego Think of China's corporations like a Borg ship. That is the problem with capitalism! It's insidious. It's like a malignant growth. Some are bigger than others.