In TOS, Vulcan and Romulan women females had long hair. In the movies, Saavik has long hair and even Valeris, despite her hair being shorter does not look at all like Spock's hair. But for some reason on TNG, all Vulcan and Romulan women have Spock's haircut. Has there ever been a non-canon explanation in the novels or even at the conventions?
shareI think all Romulan women on TNG were in the military it could be the Romulan equivalent of an army buzz cut.
shareHmmm. The Romulan commander in The Enterprise Incident was in the military. I wonder what made the make-up artists for TNG decide that all Vulcan and Romulan women should wear the Spock cut.
shareI wonder what made the make-up artists for TNG decide that all Vulcan and Romulan women should wear the Spock cut.
Spock's haircut is mad phat deaf dope, or whatever passes for groovy these days.
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Yes, and I dismissed it because your opinion is contradicted by the Romulan commander in The Enterprise Incident. It also doesn't explain why Vulcan females on TNG ALSO have Spock haircuts if they're not in the Romulan military.
shareBecause they didn't have the budget to always do wigs in TOS, you would have noticed Subcommander Tal didn't have straight hair in that episode. Just like Klingons don't look very "Klingon". Also Saavik and Valeris, not in the Romulan military.
shareIn TOS it wasn't a budgetary thing. They allowed the Vulcan and Romulan women to have long hair. Your theory about Romulan military STILL doesn't address why Vulcan women, like Lt. Selar (and later T'Pol, also not in the Romulan military), ALSO have the Spock haircut. It's okay to say you don't know if you don't know. My question was whether there was ever a reason given for this in the novels or at the conventions (by staff or cast members). I didn't ask for random theories.
shareit could be a military cut
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WHAT I don't get is how a horses patoot like you frostynuts even got to be borned. ur a pathetic pasty skinned pansy. now munch sac ya froot noodle
shareThis from a psychotic piece of garbage blaming "trolls" for the IMDB boards shutting down. You're a classic example of why inter family breading should be punishable by death.
shareWell one could argue that a haircut is an expression of the self(and could be considered has an emotional foundation)and being different,you could argue that in a highly logical society as the Vulcans it would be considered distracting and might possibly invite unwanted emotional responses.
In Romulan society the above applies as well plus being a highly militaristic society being different is unwanted because it contradicts the logic of uniformity.
Doesn't answer my question, but does explain why IMDB is getting rid of this useless board.
shareThat was SO stupid. In the original series only a couple of Vulcans had that haircut. Spock was the only one that could pull it off.
shareBecause Captain Kirk and Jean Luc Picard didn't have any haircut to adapt to.
shareOh no you didn't! Captain Kirk had more hair than any human being in history and most of the more primitive forms of primates. Legend has it that Tribbles came into existence when some of his luxurious locks became sentient and detached from his glorious head.
shareIf you're a man, your haircut is remarkably similar to the ancient Roman hairstyles of 2,000 years ago.
Fracjly, cutting the hair short and letting it lie flat is perfectly logical for people whose hair tends to be very straight. That cut doesn't get in the way of anything, if keeps the eyes and ears free of floppy obstructing wisps, and you can cut your own bangs in the mirror.
Fashion is illogical, and wasteful of resources.
Therefore, both the highly logical Vulcans and the militaristic Romulans would see no reason to change the hairstyles they used at the time of the breakup! Yup, thousands of years later, they'd still have the same highly practical 'dos.