Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:44 pm
Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that. 
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:45 pm
Them theres fighting words partner...
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:50 pm
Tough talk, but the warranty on your surge protector will run out sooner or later...Rochey wrote:Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:03 pm
Especially since he's unaware we installed a defective one into his power systems when he was laying over for a refit.Mikey wrote:Tough talk, but the warranty on your surge protector will run out sooner or later...Rochey wrote:Pfft, it'll take more than you two for that.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:26 pm
Oh, you mean like the one I have at home?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:58 pm
Coudl also be a modernization of the species. Kind of like what happened with the Klingons or Telerites. Sorry if someone else already suggested this, I'm kind of skimming through the topic.Rochey wrote:I'd call this:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... OSGorn.jpg http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... NTGorn.jpg
a bit more than "slight facial differences". If the one in ENT hadn't been specificaly referred to as a Gorn, I would have taken it as a completely different species.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:59 pm
Oh, out of universe that's definitely what happened. We were trying to rationalise it in-universe.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:27 pm
Well what I meant is it was retconned. I mean they explained why the Klingons changed but I doubt they'll ever explain why the Telerites changed. I just took it as a retcon.Rochey wrote:Oh, out of universe that's definitely what happened. We were trying to rationalise it in-universe.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:37 pm
But how do we rationalise a retcon in universe?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:44 pm
Just like the Suliban, future faction/agent elements went back in time to help the Gorn improve their DNA and make alterations.
In specific, they were spliced with a genetic alteration with this template:
Below is a holo-image taken by Archer's crew of a Gorn fighting a temporal faction-modified Cardassian:
This had rather drastic effects on the timeline. The Cardassian occupation of Bajor never occurred, because after the temporal cold war, the typical Bajoran foot soldier looks like this:
In specific, they were spliced with a genetic alteration with this template:
Below is a holo-image taken by Archer's crew of a Gorn fighting a temporal faction-modified Cardassian:
This had rather drastic effects on the timeline. The Cardassian occupation of Bajor never occurred, because after the temporal cold war, the typical Bajoran foot soldier looks like this:
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:58 pm
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:01 pm
Look! It's that thing that killed Lt. Yar!
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:55 pm
In the immortal words of Calvin and Hobbes:
"'Japanese with English subtitles: Two big rubbery monsters slug it out over greater Tokyo.' And people say foreign film is inaccesible."
"'Japanese with English subtitles: Two big rubbery monsters slug it out over greater Tokyo.' And people say foreign film is inaccesible."
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:07 am
Damn it, Dusk...
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:06 am
My money is on the giant moth.