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Star Trek, for me, was a pretty complete concept; in that it postulated a possible world. One of the starring creations Rodenberry made was the planet Vulcan. His idea was imagine a planet with one language, and one race. Isolated, and without outside influence, this culture would develope unique characteristics (ie. Logic instead of emotion). The modern equivalent is Asia. Asia developed a monothiestic culture, one religion, one 'base' language, and everyone fit into their niche' in this world. I found the idea compelling, and it gave a strong foundation to the whole Star Trek universe.

Then Voyager came out, and introduced the first Black Vulcan... whoomp ... the entire rationale for having Vulcan's be a monothlistic society just came crashing down. With multiple races, each with diffent views, a planet as Vulcan would not have evolved as it did. They lost me... I don't care if you make the Captain a black, bi-sexual, or a black heterosexual, or make the entire crew ethnicaly diverse. But, when you inject diversity into a culture that developed soley due to a lack of diversity, they killed the series in my mind.

You must've missed the Vulcan ritual scenes in Star Trek III - The Search for Spock. Several of the Vulcan guards had prominent "Asian" features. Also, the Vulcan IDIC symbol refers to "Infinite Diversity, in Infinite Combinations". I suppose they managed to evolve beyond the need to be "hyphenated-Vulans"!

the entire rationale for having Vulcan's be a monothlistic society just came crashing down. With multiple races, each with diffent views

One would think a lesser feat of reason of a race devoted to exclusively to logic would be that melanin content in the skin has no bearing on one's capacity for logic.