That is not all you’ve done.
That statement frames his identity as objective fact, establishing our perspective as in conflict not only with his perspective, but with reality itself.
The Raata presence in the Federation is awkward in a way for everyone concerned. As you know I love problems that illustrate the artificiality of categories and borders so this, naturally, delights me. It’s also actually great that they have someone speaking for them. Certainly someone should.
But it’s just a cataclysmic shame that it’s Adams. He does not represent a gray area. He represents a black one, like an event horizon.