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[estar9821]

Re: Open thread to anyone writing for Trek

Are you serious? Do you want humans to start calling black people "brown" too?

Much as the "pink-skin" thing struck me as equally weird, I think this is a valid point. We use the terms "black" and "white", despite nobody actually being those colours.

What was slightly odder, to me, was the fact that Shran used this term specifically for humans when it could be just as easily applied to Vulcans. You know, why define humans based on a characteristic they share with the Vulcans?

I agree. Vulcans are supposed to have a slightly greenish tinge because they have green blood, but often times the actors end up having normal coloring anyway, so it really doesn't make sense that the Andorians call ONLY humans "pink skin".

 

[PsychoPere]

I'm just saying, remember Mayweather and such.

The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing does have a short exchange between General Shran and Lieutenant Mayweather where Shran starts to refer to him as "pinkskin" before stopping to see whom had addressed him (out-of-turn, indeed, with Mayweather butting into a conversation between Shran and his new captain).

 

[JRoss]

Thanks for that, PsychoPere. It's cool to see that in a book. Michael Martin wrote that one, yes?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Was "pinkskin" ever used against humans at large, or was it just Shran's slurrish nickname (akin to "whitey") for Archer?

That's what I was thinking...

 

[T'Girl]

Was "pinkskin" ever used against humans at large, or was it just Shran's slurrish nickname (akin to "whitey") for Archer?

I'm pretty sure that Shran said at least once "you pink skins" referring generically to Humans.

From up thread, I have met more that a few people whos skin was out and out black. And white and black can refer to more than skin color in various societies, in Japan I was called black, in American I'm brown and in Brazil I'm considered white.

Go figure.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Was "pinkskin" ever used against humans at large, or was it just Shran's slurrish nickname (akin to "whitey") for Archer?

I'm pretty sure that Shran said at least once "you pink skins" referring generically to Humans.

Did he say that around anyone other than Archer though?

 

[JRoss]

Well, he'd been on the bridge of enterprise.

 

[F. King Daniel]

People tend to think of Andorians as "blue", even though they also come in green and white.

 

[T'Girl]

they also come in green and white

I can't remeber a "green" Andorian, take your word for it. I though the white Andorians were albino's, which is a medical condition and not exactly a skin color. I have a friend with a large birth mark, but I wouldn't describe his skin color as "purple."

 

[Nerys Myk]

they also come in green and white

I can't remeber a "green" Andorian, take your word for it. I though the white Andorians were albino's, which is a medical condition and not exactly a skin color. I have a friend with a large birth mark, but I wouldn't describe his skin color as "purple."

They're an off shoot/sub-group of the Andorians. So not really albinos. Children of Andorian-Aenar unions tend to be greenish.

 

[JRoss]

The Andorian model on the holodeck, which Lal considered as a model, was green.