The same Talarian was also one of Quarks 'waiters' in the Ward room - I think it was for the Bajoran/Federation talks in "Rapture".
I don't know wht he was called Talarian - cause the Talarians from that Four Season TNG ep looked nothing like them - they didn't have the boney heads - I guess it is one of those variations of the spelling - since we've had
Talarians
Telerians
Talerians
and Tamarians!
Why was he on Voyager though - they could have altered the make up a bit more - and its not as if you have to look hard - he was accessing a corridor display panel at one stage... maybe he somehow ended up in the Delta Quadrant and seeing a Federation ship - was looking to get home.
Also I noticed a few Voth... BUT! Like that race that could talk with the interdimensional beings - they could be just saurian in appearance - maybe they are offshoots or descendents of the Voth - but are not Voth - maybe like Vulcans and Romulans!
I'm interested in the T*l*ri*n though - I wonder what he was doing so far from home? an unstable wormhole!?!
Andrew
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"...it might be easier to study
ancient societies from distant orbit than it might be to sit next to the
Guardian of Forever with a tricorder." - Baloo, January 2000
And I'm back from a break, but I'm using Justin's computer to log on.
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"Life's a bitch, then you die"
-Quote from Dedication Plaque of USS Vanderbilt
Anyway, I think no one of the writing staff thinks a lot about the lesser races. Every time they need a race that sounds somewhat familiar, they mention the T-races: Talarians, Tamarians, Tarellians, Tyrellians, Terellians, and some more...
Season 5 has no less than four references to the T(e/y/a)rellians, I can't hear a difference, and I wonder each time which race they actually refer to.
Tarellians: the people of whom there are only very few left, highly unlikely in all cases.
Terellians: They have four arms, so at least Chakotay's opponent in "The Fight" can't be a Terellian.
Tyrellians: This is probably the most obvious choice.
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"A few more calculations"
I guess Amarie from "Unification" might be a Tarellian
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"What a wonderful and amazing scheme have we here of the magnificent vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths...!" - Christian Huygens, New Conjectures Concerning the Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions (ca 1670)