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From: sag@ihlpl.UUCP (Gore)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Vulcans
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 21:35:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 21:35:40 1985
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Reading novels by James Michener always a thought-provoking
experience.  Sure enough, while reading Michener's novel The Covenant,
a thought occurred to me---Vulcans ought to be Black!

Given the thin atmosphere of Vulcan and the perpetually high
temperature, they should have developed much darker skin.  Granted,
this is based on facts of human physiology, but it would have made
more sense to make Vulcans black.

If this ever occurred to anyone way back when, when the series first
began, I'm sure it was quickly forgotten.  How would it have looked
to present a highly intelligent, logical people who were black!!!?

( By the way, has anyone ever seen Blacks as native to any other
planet besides Earth?  It would seem very strange that Roddenberry
and crew were sending across the message that Black people are an
oddity in the universe.)

Any comments?

S. Gore
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