VLVL2 (15): "Say, Jim"

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370.27:  "Justin found his father and Zoyd in the back of a pickup, watching 'Say, Jim,' a half-hour sitcom based on 'Star Trek,' in which all the actors were black except for the Communications Officer, a freckled white redhead named Lieutenant O'Hara.  Whenever Spock came on the bridge, everybody made Vulcan hand salutes and went around high-threeing."


http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/index.html


also note:

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm


Curiously, Pynchon makes the only caucasian character the Communications Officer.  Is this part of the "joke" here?

http://www.cal.org/ebonics/

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-ebonics.html