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I think what he means is that they only get an urge to mate during the mating-season, not all the time, like humans or dolphins. But their motives can still be to do it because it feels good.
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Also, you have to compare 'intelligence' to 'religious "beliefs"' when talking about the sex=babies thing.
Oh I want to know if the cetateans have uniforms or communicators...
*communicator beep* La Forge: "Excuse me Counsellor" "La Forge here" Dolphin Lt.: "Eeee e e e eeeeee e e eeeee e eeeeeeeeeee e e e?" La Forge: "No, try jefferies tube 11, access shaft 24. Then try using an inverse anti-lepton decoupler instead of an pre-forced soliton degauser... - that should fix your salinity problem... La Forge Out"
;o)
------------------ "...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
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Well, the hump-back whales from ST IV were at least partly sentient, since aliens took the trouble of sending a very powerful probe just to contact them... Personaly, I don't care if it's realistic or not, but I think it would be nice if some species of cetaceans were recognized as sentient by the Federation, kind off like in the Ringworld Saga, were they were given mechanical arms to help them further develop their society...
In ST, they wouldn't really be Starfleet officers as such and would be confined to water tanks, but might act as consultant on some topics or even philosophers... Think what a whale would have to say on the purpose of the human race, knowing what it did to them?
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TSN: You're thinking of Dark Mirror. In it, a dolphin is on the Enterprise to study cosmic strings or something like that. His species isn't from Earth, and this guy is in tune with his surroundings. He's the only one that notices when they slip into the mirror universe.
------------------ Ross: "Inter arma, enim silent leges." Bashir: "'In the time of war the law falls silent.' Cicero. Have we become a 24th-century Rome, driven by the fact that Caesar can do no wrong?!" -Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Well what if a cetacean WANTED to become an officer in starfleet!?!
"eeee eeeeeeeee eeeeee e ee e eeee" translation "Starfleet has become a Human's only club... present company excepted."
------------------ "...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
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Nothing to do with dolphins but has anyone noticed that on Page 23 of the TNG tech manual it says that the Ent-D has Ablative armour
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Isn't it supposed to be some kind of "ablative hull coating"? I'm not sure, haven't read the thing in at least 3 months... It's probably meant to be some kind of hull protection against space hazard like micro-meteorites or the like...
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Don't take that accusative tone - remember that canonically, only the Enterprises can have pre- or postpositions... Or just possibly the new Defiant as well (although mobile position is more common, at least against the Borg). Hmm.. Perhaps pre-and postpositions are indicative of ablative armor? I must still say that ablative armor was first introduced in Past Tense.
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Perhaps the sentient dolphins in the ST universe were not sentient to begin with, but were raised to sentience by human genetic engineers, a la the "Uplift" series by David Brin (especially "Startide Rising")?
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