What did Shran call Hoshi and Mayweather?
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Your humour needs work, and lots of it.Pensive said:
sans-tennae?
Guy Gardener said:
Y'know, when he was loud, obnoxious and speciest, while he was screaming at Archer for being a Pinkskin, and recently in that Good the men do novel that he sweltered at an Orion Slaver for being a Greenskin, what did he call the obviously differently hued humans?
Say it... Say it...
Shran possibly wouldn't have discerned between the coloring of Archer and Hoshi as 'humans' would...although, he probably would have referred to Travis as 'brownskin'...
And Travis probably would have replied with a middle finger over his console!
Still, I wonder why it wasn't used on the show, as ENT obviously had various 'colors' on board the ship...{ENT was holding back with this one!}
And they could have had Archer at least make a 'blueskin' jibe...
I was watching 'Squire of Gothos' the other day, and I actually found it somewhat interesting how Trelane makes comments on Uhura's 'Nubian-ness' while he tries to kiss her hand...which she takes away with a 'whatever' look.
Still, as Hoshi probably wasn't the only Asian onboard {and us Asians come in different hues}...just like Travis wasn't the only black individual onboard {and black men and women also come in different hues}...
Shran would have had a couple of pinkskins, brownskins, yellowskins, etc...
{Something that ENT would have done well to explore, I think}...
I do agree that Shran wouldn't have really noticed with Hoshi, but would she have been unamused to be confused with... By being "referred" to as caucasian that her pride or "sense of lineage" might have been dented a little?
This is always how I imagined the exchange between Shran and Mayweather being:
(Shran is walking through the bridge; pauses by Mayweather.)
Shran: Say, you're not very pink for a pinkskin.
Mayweather: Actually, sir, we humans come in a variety of different colors.
Shran: Oh? (Pause.) Do you come in blue?
Mayweather: No.
Shran: Well, it's a shame.
(Shran Walks off.)
(Shran is walking through the bridge; pauses by Mayweather.)
Shran: Say, you're not very pink for a pinkskin.
Mayweather: Actually, sir, we humans come in a variety of different colors.
Shran: Oh? (Pause.) Do you come in blue?
Mayweather: No.
Shran: Well, it's a shame.
(Shran Walks off.)
Well, I'm sure she would have cordially corrected Shran...
And if he didn't shape up, well....
I can see that happening in a novel....
Pensive said:
sans-tennae?
Perhaps for movie night sometime when Shran visisted, they could have had Season 1 of My Favorite Martian with Ray Walston playing... would have been a nice tribute to Ray for his work in TNG and VOY.
I'd have loved to have seen Shran's reaction to Uncle Martin!
"Retractable antennae! What a fabulous idea. Would have helped a few months ago.... "
Of course, we're all assuming that Shran was talking about skin pigmentation here. It's possible that, since Andorians seem to have evolved in a completely frigid climate, their eyesight is somehow thermally based.
Like, maybe Andorian body temperature is higher than that of humans, so they seem themselves as "red-skins" and humans (with their relatively low 98.6 degrees F internal temperature) register somewhat cooler to the Andorian eye, and our skin radiates a nice "pink" color.
Just a thought.
Like, maybe Andorian body temperature is higher than that of humans, so they seem themselves as "red-skins" and humans (with their relatively low 98.6 degrees F internal temperature) register somewhat cooler to the Andorian eye, and our skin radiates a nice "pink" color.
Just a thought.
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