Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!ihlpl!sag From: sag@ihlpl.UUCP (Gore) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Vulcans Message-ID: <270@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 21:35:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.270 Posted: Wed Aug 7 21:35:40 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:32:44 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 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 LLP \\// \