What if Andorians see different wavelengths of light, and the closest word the universal translator can find is “pink.”
Maybe “pink” means “warm” in Andorian.
I think he’s hitting on you
It makes you wonder about the colored aliens in the Star Trek universe.
Are there different shades of Andorians and their blue skin and white hair?
Are there different shades of Orions and their green skin?
There is a weird mentality when we imagine an alien species from another world and think that they all look uniformly the same across billions of individuals on their home planet.
I remember the bitching and moaning when Tim Russ got cast as Tuvok because “Vulcans aren’t black.” As if the handful of Vulcans ever shown by that point represented the entire species.
Edit: Also, Vulcan has a huge red sun. Dark-skinned Vulcans actually make more sense.
Tim Russ isn’t Vulcan because he’s a human pirate (see: Starship Mine). Wait maybe he’s a Klingon Trill trafficker (See: Invasive Procedures).
I thought he was still looking for his identity because he …
There were other black Vulcans shown on-screen (as background characters) before Tuvok:
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Star Trek III had a Vulcan midwife played by Fran Bennett
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Star Trek V had a Vulcan High Priestess played by Beverly Hart
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There are definitely multiple shades of green on the Orions in Lower Decks. Some are yellow-green, and some are blue-green
Like these two, for example.
Shran’s daughter is clearly a more pale blue than he is. Not to mention the Aenar.
I would imagine he was using a slur they invented for Vulcans, probably combining meanings of colour and warmth, which the UT didn’t really understand, so it just spit out something kind of close
I’m picturing Hoshi telling everyone, “no, look, in his language, that means ‘able to absorb heat!’” and Travis is like, “yeah, whatever.”
Maybe it’s the same reason we think of salmon as pink?
Yes, that’s exactly what I thought of.
Some kinds of salmon are pink.
“Wild salmon is naturally pink due to their diet which includes astaxanthin, a reddish-orange compound found in krill and shrimp”
If it’s not pink, it’s likely farmed.
Would be good if we see a Vulcan being called green skin.
“Pink skin! Pink skin! Pink skin!”
*sees Mot the barber*
“You’re cool.”
That snake eating bastard better watch his back
