Didn't George Takei claim to be wearing a robe as an extra in one of those shots?
Tuvok wasn't the first Black Vulcan
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Didn't George Takei claim to be wearing a robe as an extra in one of those shots?
this guy could be Asian
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Vulcan_gong_carrier.jpg
edit, I need to break my habit of replying as soon as I get to a post instead of seeing if someone else did first
You have to know that's not what he meant.
This Vulcan high priestess in TFF played by Beverly Hart was a black Vulcan. 
At least no one has said "African-American Vulcan", like someone I used to work with did. (I set her straight.)
Asimov's Foundation series got around that whole thing by describing the three major races as Western, Eastern, and Southern. (There were no "Northerners".) Perhaps that convention could work when discussing racial types of alien species.
Asimov's Foundation series got around that whole thing by describing the three major races as Western, Eastern, and Southern. (There were no "Northerners".) Perhaps that convention could work when discussing racial types of alien species.
He was smart not to use Northern as most of the "North" is Asia. Not sure that format would work for extraterrestrials.
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Unless you had an African-American tha
IrishNero
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Unless the person genuinely was half African-American, and half-Vulcan.
And THAT could be a very interesting character! I hope someone will write us one.
"Lt. T'Fari's last thoughts were of her parents. She thought of her father, seated behind that old mahogany desk in his home office, in her childhood home in Rockford back on Earth. She hoped he would find comfort in knowing that her death was logical, that his daughter died in confirmation that the needs of the many do, indeed, outweigh the needs of the one. And then she thought of her mother, looking as she had the last time T'Fari had seen her, when they had all gone to see her mother's family's ancestral home near Mombasa. She held that visualization even as the constant movement of her hands across the console could no longer hold back the warp core breach that she had kept under control for longer than anyone should have expected, while her crewmates - her... friends - had evacuated, reached a safe distance in the escape pods.
Her hands stopped. She became completely one with the image in her mind. And then she, and the U.S.S. Atolm, were gone."
Something like that?
Her hands stopped. She became completely one with the image in her mind. And then she, and the U.S.S. Atolm, were gone."
Something like that?
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Aww, it was sweet of you to write that.
I was actually thinking more of a character who would think about the lessons her African-American family had passed down from the time when racism still existed on Earth* and how she had used those lessons to deal with being a half-Vulcan on Vulcan, in spite of the fact that prejudice is flagrantly illogical. It could make for an interesting mix, the ongoing mining of the lessons from the human family to deal with the problems of being not-quite-Vulcan enough.
*Yes, I know it still exists all too much now; I'm using the patented Roddenberry optimism about Earth's future, plus Uhura's bemusement when Lincoln thought he should apologize for calling her a "Negress."
There is an Asian-looking Vulcan in ST III. He gets a few closeups with his gong.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unnamed_Vulcans_(23rd_century)?file=Vulcan_gong_carrier.jpg
And George Takei played one, as an extra, in the "climb the steps" crowd scenes.
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