MESSAGE FROM THE HIGH COUNCIL AD HOC TASK FORCE ON XENOFOLLICULITY

    The High Council recently discharged the findings of an ad hoc task force investigating an incident of 2374 involving a Romulan takeover of a Starfleet prototype vessel.
    Peripherally, the task force found that Starfleet's first visual enounter with the Romulans happened slightly more than a century earlier, in 2266 (a non-contact engagement occured in 2152). At that time, observers immediately discerned two distinguishing traits of the Romulans: (1) their fleet's tactical equipollence, and (2) their haircuts.
     Despite the extensive cataloging of Romulan culture and history by the Starfleet Bureau of Information, Starfleet has expended very few resources on the investigation of the race's tonsorial traits. Therefore this task force has combed the archives and attempted to cover parts not yet brushed upon by Starfleet.
     To the casual interstellar observer, Romulan coiffure seems indistinguishable from that of their distant cousins, the Vulcans. Closer examination, however, reveals a number of unique variations.

	Basic configuration: Almost impossible to tell apart from the Vulcan: straight, bangy, slick, and uniform, with loose pointy sideburns.
	Occasionally one encounters a Romulan female with a fluff in back.
	Few observers have seen what happens to a Romulan's hair in the wind.
	Even fewer observers have seen a Romulan who just got out of bed.
	A rather common configuration has the bangs tapering downward to a point.
	But some Romulans don't seem to have much of a point . . .
	. . . while others have a point, but have gotten plastered.
	Occasionally a Romulan exhibits a point so extreme, it seems supported by his eyebrows.
	Starfleet scientists puzzled over the slickness of Romulans' tresses . . . until they encountered one who'd run out of gel.
	No gel, but with a point.
	When Romulans age, they grey . . .
	. . . or comb over . . .
	. . . or not.
	Skin pigmentation seems not to affect the basic mane . . .
	. . . but eye color does.

     This concludes the body of our findings. We trimmed it from its original length; we hope that our readers haven't found it too dry.

TASK FORCE MEMBERS

Commander Gowan

Commodore Jay