An even more human looking B’ellana? Kind of defeats the purpose of her being Klingon in that case. Why not just make her Latina, Irish, or some other human nationality where women are stereotypically fiery?
And I’ve no real issue with panda; I think I even just got flamed over it. Flipped off, in the least.
Amen, Brother.
Sorry, but no human culture holds a flame to Klingon sexuality. The point is that her aggresive sexuality would scare off human males and hurt the ones who weren’t afraid. Off limits not because of ice, but because she’s too animalistically sexual. Not Klingon enough to be appealing to other Klingons. And that’s the key with a television sexual interest … it is best as an unrequited tease, and there has to be a reason that it stays unrequited. Her dealing with her unsatisfied drives is one of her issues. Her nature being pure Klingon but being classified by others based on her external appearence the other.
As to the Dominion, you could have that ocean of theirs die off you know, and have the species a scattered remnent.
Then what of K’ehlyr and B’ellana? Both were hybrids and, specifically in the case of Torres, the mother was Klingon. Their passion is obviously that of legend
Torres’ father was Cuban. that makes the klington temper look like a toddler’s fit.
Viva Cuba Libre!
Torres was a wimpy Klingon though. A human who looked Klingonish really. And who tried to fit into a human world. I’m wanting someone who looks less Klingon but who is a Klingon on the inside. Has internalized Klingon values. But is viewed by others as other than what she is. She could be a lower ranking Klingon sent on exchange to the Federation ship as a sign of disrespect to her bloodline and to the Federation (a joke by the Klingon captain - “They want an exchange, I’ll not send one of my fine Klingon officers there, but this is a great chance to get rid of that abberation, that half-breed I have been stuck with and ho I have been unable to get to quit!”, yet she too feels that her bloodline is a disgrace, and resents her Klingon parent for having dishonored the family with her birth. She has no desire to fit into the human world whatsoever. Full of self-loathing for her human appearence even as she is identified by Klingons as other. She’d commit suicide if it wasn’t such a dishonor, so she is always looking for a chance to die in battle.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We’re designing the entire crew of a deep space exploration vessel for the purposes of making a television series based on the Star Trek model, and before we even decide who the captain is we’re trying to specify which bit of totty we want? We’re trying to get in a bit of skirt? We’re trying to design the show around the eye candy?
Yeah, I forgot, it’s a Star Trek show.
How about we decide first:
…before we decide what size breasts she’s gonna have?
The Star Trek model is usually ~seven per ship and Command generally has the most representation with services (Engineering and Security) being second and sciences (Medical and Specialists) being the least represented.
Actually, this sounds a lot like Chief O’Brien on DS9. ISTR an episode or two where the fact that he was being run ragged around the station fixing stuff was actually a plot point. Basically, he exists to keep the station together using nothing but duck tape and bubble gum, while bemoaning the fleet-wide shortage of bubble gum, all in a pleasing Irish accent. 
As for holodecks, I think we could use them for character development. Maybe one of the junior officers likes to pretend he’s Captain Horatio Hornblower, fighting El Supremo off the coast of Columbia? Maybe another one has tea with Sherlock Holmes, Lieutenant Columbo, and Gil Grissom (OK, granted, shades of Data here)?
And then there’s the ever-classic “Captain Proton”
This reminds me, the Engineer has to have an identifiably different accent. Past engineers of note have been Scottish, Irish, and Texan. I can’t remember what accent Voyager’s engineer had, but then, they must not have been very memorable (was it Torres?).
This reminds me, the Engineer has to have an identifiably different accent. Past engineers of note have been Scottish, Irish, and Texan. I can’t remember what accent Voyager’s engineer had, but then, they must not have been very memorable (was it Torres?). TNG is the exception to this rule, because their chief Engineer was the dude from Reading Rainbow. I loved that show.
Trip was a Floridian played by a Washingtonian. I’m not sure where the hell that accent came from.
Neither Geordi nor B’ellana had identifiable accents.
Seven people, huh? I’ll put some ideas on the chopping block. First, I observe we probably won’t really need to define any command officers who don’t interact with our main characters. Second, our main characters should overlap in some significant ways so they can, you know, talk to each other. (Putting them all in completely separate departments means on-duty interaction is minimal.)
Okay, so that means we need to create the following:
Which of the three (or more) ships that __________ ship is.
The name for __________ ship. 
Our world-famous fried chicken.
Just for fun I’m going to do this this way:
Also is a shuttle pilot. Reports to the Chief of Security.Transporter Room: a place where 1 and 2 commonly overlap.
Main Bridge: a place where 2 and 3 commonly overlap.
Astroengineering Lab: a place where 3 and 4 can commonly overlap.
Xenobiology Lab: a place where 4 and 5 can commonly overlap.
Sick Bay: a place where 5 and 6 can overlap frequently.
Shuttle Bay: a place where 6 and 7 can overlap frequently.
Main Engineering: a place where 7 and 1 can commonly overlap.
Suggested by the above, we definitely need:
__________, Chief Engineer
__________, Security Chief
__________, Chief Medical Officer
__________, First Officer
__________, Science Officer
and… oh yeah. A captain.
By the way, I’m not saying this is the only acceptable staff list. I’m just trying to push the discussion on to the nuts and bolts of the thing instead of talking about boobies. If anybody wants to quibble over my choices for where the characters should be assigned, say sump’n and we’ll get 'er hashed out.
Then we’ll talk about boobies. 
I like this kind of setup, but maybe in order to maintain more interaction between characters (while in their typical run-of-the mill time on the job) we could have more than 2 at a time regularly working in the same location. Something like what you had, but maybe reshuffle a little such as:
Just so that we’d have a couple of smaller groups that are working together regularly, and a few others such that they’ll also commonly overlap with them. Would be good to have them all know each other (as they likely would through friend-of-a-friend methods), except maybe a couple that don’t work closely together aren’t very well aquainted with each other. Just a thought…
And there’s room for 14 main-character boobs in this scenario, might be best to work a few more things out before picking how many of these (preferably an even number!) to use 
“Captain! We need more dilithim crystals…but you don’t have to take my wod for it.”
Skip the Security Chief. Use a nameless Redshirt.
Instead, create a comic relief character (Shakespeare did it, why can’t we?), and insert him/her into a minor ship’s duty. Transporter tech, Shuttle Pilot, Sciences, or Captain’s Yeoman.
BTW-- a “Yeoman” is the Administrative Assistant for a ship’s Captain or First Officer. Rather skilled, usually, occasionally smarter than his/her CO, they usually know all the ins & outs, & where the bodies are buried. An ideal confidant for the Captain.
First up should be the Federation ship. For each character please suggest some basics of their back story and how it may fit into our arcs. Even if we do not yet specify cup size.
So far we have our human-trying-to-become-not-human(or jem’hadar) and my Klingon as suggestiions. Their themes overlap, both disgusted with aspects of humanity and self-loathing of their own human bits. He’s outside of those assignments, she’d go in engineering.
I think a former Marquis in medical would be fine. Loves humanity but with definite maverick tendencies and still resents the Federation structure even though he’s back in. Wants to use more xenobiology and alternative bits than his Chief will let him. Sometimes taken in by snake oil.
What if the captain has a batman? Let’s just assume for the moment that the captain is not human, and is someone important on their planet. The only consession starfleet makes to their status is a live in servant. There could always be someone who gets picked up as the batman, and enters a sort of servitude as a way of repaying a debt, but Nelix ran that one a bit ragged.
The actor claimed it was based on relatives from Arkansas, but it sounded like East Texas to me. Of course, Arkansas has the misfortune to share a border with Eastern Texas. 