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Brandyjane wrote: With an average body temperature of 91F (Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual)

That seems to be saying that their body temperature is on average lower than the human body temperature, which is not what I would have expected. Perhaps there is a Vulcan equivalent of being cold blooded, which allows the body temperature to rise significantly without causing any harm? It would make sense that Vulcans avoid sweating under typical conditions to conserve water, even if they're capable of sweating and even if they do sweat under other conditions - such as when scantily-clad in decon.

I don't think there is a "right answer" honestly, sometimes TPTB just don't pay attention to keep these consistent.

WarpGirl wrote:I don't think there is a "right answer" honestly, sometimes TPTB just don't pay attention to keep these consistent.

Exactly! If it ever comes up in one of my stories, I'm going with a higher body temperature because I think it sounds more logical and I haven't heard from any of you guys that Memory Alpha is conclusively right on this. Indeed, WarpGirl has a Voy episode that indicates the opposite! Oh, well, it was just something that I came across that made me go, "huh"?

OK I'll look, maybe I can find it in a transcript or something. Don't know when I'll get back to you though.

Kevin Thomas Riley wrote:We have seen Vulcans sweat (T'Pol in any decon scene for example), so that part about having no sweat glands can't be accurate.

I'd hate to see T'Pol perpetually with her tongue out, like dogs.

One thing about the McCoy statement was that he referred to Spock who is half human. That is one thing in TOS that always bothered me. Spock kept being referred to as a Vuclan. He wasn't he was half Vulcan and Half Human. His Human side was ignored for the most part.

Anyway, Spock would hardly have the body temperature of a full Vulcan.

I have always wondered what the Temperature on Vulcan had to do with the amount and location of any body hair on a Vulcan. Humans still have it but Earth evolved through the Ice Ages and Mankind lived through one of them. Did vulcan ever have an Ice Age? If it is so Hot on vulcan I would assume that they lack any body hair especially patches of it under the Arms and elsewhere.

SB

Men have body hair, women appearently don't. It's so silly. If they can't keep these things consistent use what you want.

Men have body hair, women appearently don't. It's so silly..

:LOL: I know! What is with the female no-hair revolution these days? Man, us chix these days in N. America, as a generalization, are just getting more and more bald, hey? I bet some of the younger men these days would if they saw what women walked around like in other times and other cultures. I have a birthing book my mother in law gave me from 1971, and the full-frontal shots are just.......

Let's just say you can't even see the baby crowning. Cause the momma is just au naturel, baby.

I think it's the internet...men get to look at these 99% bald ladies online and then they look at their wives/girlfriends and go, "So what's the problem?" and then the girl goes and gets a brazilian wax.

Personally, I think extremism to *either* side of the hairiness spectrum is a bit weird. Let's aim for more of a middle path, I say. But no one can hear me over the sound of all that wax being ripped off.

IDK, the whole hairless thing has been going on since ancient Egypt. Only men got into it too. In Ancient Rome ment to the spa and got shaved everywhere with an iron blade, and tweezers.

It's definitely both genders now, at least in the college age population. I recently had someone come in to the office for what basically amounted to razor burn on both arms. I've seen it on the legs, too, of course, along with the face, neck, lower abdomen, pubis, and even the back. And most of these individuals are shaved in places it would be impossible to reach by themselves.

Obviously, we've got some hair removal places doing whole body work... or maybe some couples are stripping down, grabbing a can of shave cream and a handful of disposable razors and making an evening of it.

Ok that frightens me. Why does that seem like an episode of L&O:SVU?

Well, Spock, for what it's worth, or rather Leonard Nimoy, had chest hair. I recall him being shirtless in one episode. But then again, Spock was half-Human.

As for T'Pol's hair or lack of it, well, I have my view in that...

Hey, I was just thinking that in such a hot climate Body Hair would be useless unless to protect one from the Sun. So, T'Pol would be smooth from top to bottom. Which makes me wonder what Trip thought of it. In that shower scene she might have slipped right out of his arms.

Aside: I always hated to run my hand up a hairy leg. But in Europe when I was first stationed there, 1960, many women did not shave their llegs (other than those who hung around American males) and wore Sheer stockings. So the hair was flattened against the stockings. Most said that their Men prefered Hair on the legs. However, in the interests of good relations, I learned to live with Hairy legs.

SB

Okay guys I'm just gonna post the link on Vulcan biology, temps, hair and what not and hope this doesn't get any more out there... Keep in mind that there will be contradictions. It's the nature of the beast. I cannot understand why I can't find that VOY ep, I memorized them all! http://www.stogeek.com/wiki/Vulcan_%28Species%29 http://www.stogeek.com/wiki/Vulcan_%28Species%29