Tokenism
Tokenism was the practice of making a symbolic effort to do a particular thing, such as recruiting someone from a minority group in order to give the appearance of equality or fairness.

In approximately 3074, a Kyrian arbiter wanted The Doctor's backup module arrested and d for his crimes, as The Doctor was believed to be a war criminal due to the holographic program The Voyager Encounter which depicted him as such. A Vaskan arbiter said it was not her decision to make, and she claimed that she was only on the commission because the Vaskans needed a token Kyrian.  interjected that the issue was not about race, but the Kyrian arbiter stated that it was always about race; that Vaskans seized every opportunity to keep themselves in . ()

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