In this episode, the entire humanoid population of the planet is portrayed by African American performers. In the teleplay, however, only Lutan’s guards were specifically written as being African.
Thing to keep in mind with that writer is she also wrote the SG-1 episode at the same time where a character got captured as a slave wife for mongols (SG-1 episode emancipation). She was fulfilling her racist brute kink.
They weren’t even supposed to be a black race originally??
Nope:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode)#Background_information
Which, you know, also not terrific, but not just balls-to-the-wall racist.
Thing to keep in mind with that writer is she also wrote the SG-1 episode at the same time where a character got captured as a slave wife for mongols (SG-1 episode emancipation). She was fulfilling her racist brute kink.
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Emancipation