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The Klingons are Coming!
or, Watch that Tan Friend!
© 2000 Bernd
Wechner
Wearing sandals for two summers consequitively (European and Australian)
I had harsh bands of pale white skin and dark tanned skin running across
my feet. My instinctive reaction on seeing these was how sickly the white
skin looked and how proud, strong, beautiful the tanned skin. Everyone
who sees the feet seems to find a similar reaction. It's not much different
between my dark tanned forearms and my pale white belly! The pale white
is sickly, the good tan is healthy.
Now consider the starship Enterprise. In one picture, all is calm, and
everyone is going about their business, partying, happy as can be. In another
picture, the Klingons are attacking the ship, Kirk is yelling to Scotty
for more power on the defensive shields, sirens are screaming across the
whole ship, whooo, whooo, whooo, as bolts of energy rock the ship violently.
Which Enterprise makes better TV? Which Enterprise is healthier?
For people of central or northern European descent and egentic makeup
(like me), it seems to me that the healthy Enterprise resembles my white
skin, and the Klingon attack, the tanned skin, defensive shields up, against
the bombardment of UV!
But then a tan is, like so many Klingons, that much more entertaining
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