So after (finally) finishing Orion's Hounds (and loving it) and reading the excerpt from Destiny, that got me to wondering: what precisely is the lineage of Vale's hair color choices? I know there have been several mentions of it over the years, but the only two I can recall/find are the black of OH and the auburn of Destiny. May I inquire of the masters of trek minutiae for a chronicle of her stylings?
Vale's hair color
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She had red hair in Sword of Damocles, which takes place between OH and Destiny.
In her first appearance in The Belly of the Beast (the first S.C.E. story), she had blond hair. In her first chronological appearance -- the flashback in the S.C.E. story Security -- it was auburn, and she was considering changing it. She's also been a brunette and a redhead. 
Of course, what really happened is that the different authors writing her first few appearances described her hair color inconsistently, so in Orion's Hounds I figured I might as well throw in a reference to her dying her hair. And it's become kind of a running gag since then.
She's got nanites in her hair that allow her to change her hair color at will, provided to her as a parting gift from her father, though conveniently she will never mention this fact or use them "on screen" until the story where we learn that her father actually left her an encoded message in them.
Just think, if we'd been writing Star Trek novels the way we're apparently supposed to, she wouldn't have been a member of the crew in the first place, and all of this could have been avoided.
Damn, those missed opportunities.
Damn, those missed opportunities.
It could also have been avoided if those all powerful all knowing Powers That Be simply dictated it all.
^ Well, it'd be about time. I've been laughing at him for years.
What is this a reference to? What Steve said, or something else?
i thought it was referring to that the books arent canon and perhaps they should be...but thanks for clearing that up!
I seem to remember black was in there as a color somewhere.
Come to think of it, what do you call someone with black hair? There's blonde, brunette, redhead, and...?
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
"Raven hair"?
That's what I was thinking also.
"Raven" by itself can be used as an adjective. There's also just "black-haired." But if you mean something that can be used as a noun, analogous to "She's a natural blonde" or "Look at that cute redhead," I don't think there is one. I've always thought of black as falling within the "brunette" category.
