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Posted by Eclipse (Member # 472) on :

Any guesses on which bits are 'organic'. Computers are a possibility, since the Federation have cracked 'bio-neural' computers (perhaps they nicked the idea off the Breen in the first place?). How about armour?

Also, why didn't we see the Breen using their cloaking devices? Surely the Dominion would have jumped at the opportunity to have some cloakable ships for sneak attacks. Or was the SFHQ attack an example of that?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Didn't know the Breen could cloak, although they're the most fitting race to use it. Even more secretive and cowardly than the Romulans...

I think the armour or infrastructure could be organic. Would enable them to either grow the basic skeleton and then add ordinary armour, or build a usual skeleton and add the organic armour-pads.
If both components were organic they should've showed the breen ships jiggling/woobling when hit or destroyed, at least that's what I'd have done to emphasize meat.

If the organic parts are hard and solid, perhaps they are insect-based?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

'Cause ships made from beef would present some disadvantages. And they'd smell funny...

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

*breencartman stuck in breen jeffriestube* "You guys, get me outa' heaah!!! smells like kenny's house in here...

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We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

I think that TPTB simply forgot that the Breen ships were supposed to be organic. I mean, this "fact" was only mentioned once, in a Voyager episode, when Species 8472's ships were being discussed.

I like to think that the few bits of information that the Federation knows about the Breen are wrong. They were wrong about the Breen homeworld being a frozen wasteland, weren't they?

IIRC, the Breen were able to penetrate Starfleet Command because they were cloaked. I don't think this was mentioned in the episode, but was something that the Magazine mentioned later.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

I think TNG also mentioned that the Breen had cloaking devices. It was the episode with the SS Vico, the dark cluster, and the little boy that starts acting like Data. "Hero Worship" was the title, I think.

Anyway, the boy described uncloaking starships and disruptors. Worf or Data theorized that it would have been either the Klingons, Romulans, or Breen.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

It was about the disruptors! The same type of conversation was in 'Generations'. They found marks left by disruptors inside the observatory. Then someone commented that whoever shot it, it could be narrowed down to Romulans, Klingon and Breen.

Also, the Breen could have other ships that are organic, while their warships are not.

OR... The Breen could have used their knowledge of freezing stuff to harden the organic structure of a ship.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

What if the ships are cellulose-organic? Like hard bamboo? Or even turnips?

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I sincerely hope not. Otherwise, as with the kitbash we call the Shelley, we would have to refer to the Breen vessels as B'aldrick-class. 8)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

*sighs* ...my dream-turnip...

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram