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TGLS wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 5:12 pm

Worffan101 wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 4:18 pm In Arena, they were asshole ultranationalists, but come on. This is just cartoonish.

Well look at the other modern series, when there's asshole ultranationalists, they're eating somebody.

It's just dumb and I hate it. Trek aliens are supposed to be people, man.

A weak episode this week. Baby's first mashup of Balance of Terror and Disaster, with some completely unnecessary "grr rargh we savage mindless monsters, kill each other for not being cartoon gigachads, eat hew-mons for fun, we pure evil" bullshit for the Gorn. In Arena, they were asshole ultranatio...

I can't judge episode 3 because i'm too gratified that they took the same approach to augmentation that I did in my fanfic.

That was a pretty damn good finale.

Ocampa with litters? Unlikely. Not enough mammary glands to feed the young reliably. 1/3rd of women in RL can't produce enough milk naturally to feed their babies . So this is actually true to life. Formula is something we've evolved for now. This is environmental more than genetic. Typically, brea...

Al-1701 wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 8:54 pm I point to the Occampa (is that how you spell it?). At least the Kelpian's biological eccentricities can be considered beneficial to their survival.

The Ocampa suck too. There's a reason Chuck rants about them a lot.

There have been dumber designed races in Star Trek. Sure. But the intricacies of their biology have never been a major plot point that's clearly intended to blow the audience's mind. Changeling biology is overtly "whatever works to further Odo's storylines". Medusan biology is an excuse for a Spock...

Suffice it to say that I've made my point on the Kelpiens and why I think they are incredibly stupid as a species in both versions of the backstory. If you want to give STD the benefit of the doubt it doesn't deserve, go right ahead.

Not that hard of a concept to say: 'Kelpians evolved on their planet due to the high abundance of the E' verplen'ti and E'verla'st plants that grow fast on their world and is a super dense form of nutrition to the species'. There you go. Where is the energy that makes these plants physically possib...

Not that hard of a concept to say: 'Kelpians evolved on their planet due to the high abundance of the E' verplen'ti and E'verla'st plants that grow fast on their world and is a super dense form of nutrition to the species'. There you go. Where is the energy that makes these plants physically possib...