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That's more a concession to the audience, along the lines of all members of an alien race looking extremely similar.
What's the Bolian homeplanet called?
And your theory doesn't quite hold with how the characters speak in Star Trek. Whenever an alien item or animal is mentioned, they ALWAYS say the planet it's from. "Cardassian voles", "Bolian sewer rats", "Romulan Ale", "Antarian diamonds", and so on.
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Humans may be from Earth, but Terrans are from Terra. It's entirely possible that the matching race/planet names are a convention for the English in which we hear the show, and that the various aliens would have non-matching names from themselves and their planets.
And the Bolian homeworld is Bolarus IX, but "Bolia" has been referred to on occasion, as well (specifically, the Bank of Bolia, so maybe it isn't a planet).
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Not to mention the Klingons of Q'onos (Kronos)
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Where every warrior wears really bad flower-print dresses and makes up excuse after excuse to be discharged from the Imperial Defense Force?
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quote:Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Re: 2. Do we know that Cardassians actually skin Bolians in order to get Bolian skin? It doesn't seem like a necessary step in the process, not in the 22nd century.
Well, the Pathways bit is from the 24th. And, the Cardassian informs Torres that her captain, a rotund Bolian, is dead on the bridge.
quote:Re: 3. The military could probably "come to power" even without shaking the time-honored triumvirate of Cardassian government, merely by taking a more active role within the existing framework.
True enough, but with the Obsidian Order's power and Dukat's comments it seems that a military-ruled Cardassia wouldn't have had a military which reported to the Detapa Council along with the OO, with each handing their own affairs in practice.
Of course, then there's that whole civilian coup thing that results in the Klingon invasion, a civilian government which still features a Detapa Council. Frankly, I find it all rather confusing.
quote:Agreed about that uniform peeve. Then again, Cardassians "in the past" were not from such a distant past
True. I was mainly thinking of examples where we see life as it was during the Occupation, though.
quote:Gul Macet might simply have been wearing a style out of style for the past ten years or so, his ship being a run-down, combat-weary wreck from the not-so-glorious Twenty-Nine-and-Halfth Order.
Hehehe . . . true enough. I'm also liking the idea that Macet was part of a special branch of some sort. Were it not for the fact that "Defiant" establishes that the Obsidian Order is not allowed to have its own ships, I'd want to say it was one of theirs.
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So not thinking that everything in Pathways is right is mad, then? Torres' mother's name is Prabsa and not Miral, eh? Janeway served under Admiral Paris on the Icarus, not the Al-Batani, eh?
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