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Christ, one Ritten was bad enough, now we've to contend with RittenRitten, a powered-up version that morphed after coming in contact with Ash's Terragen Mists - With 39 points of articulation and spring-loaded "missile" launcher!!
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
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The inhabitants we saw in "Encounter at Farpoint" certainly didn't appear very telepathic. We could apply three explanations:
1) Perhaps the Bandi really are telepathic, but only amongst themselves - like the Cairn of "Dark Page". We didn't really see any of them speaking to each other, now did we? This is the most interesting of the explanations IMHO.
2) Perhaps only a few of the Bandi are telepathic, and no such individuals were seen, but enough of them do exist to earn them a mention in Federation records - just like Dehner and Mitchell displayed psi-abilities even though Trek humans in general do not.
3) Perhaps we're talking about different Denebs here. Would also help with the distance problem. The telepaths could be living on Deneb IV thousands of ly away, while the Bandi could be living on Deneb Kaitos IV just a couple of dozen ly away from Earth.
Hmm. If we choose to believe in those "WNMHGB" records, then it seems Gary Mitchell made Lt.Cmdr at the tender age of 23. I guess having telepathic skills doesn't exactly slow down your career development...
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I don't think Gary Mitchell actually had TELEPATHY... just that his ESP rating was high... that he along with the Doctor lady... Barabra Kellerman... what was the character... were more 'in tune' or more 'susceptible' to ESP-type things.
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What have the Voyager writers done to the race, really? I guess it's possible there are two different races there by the same name, but IMHO it's also possible there is just a single race that has two facial structures (perhaps gender-related, perhaps age-related).
The other differences between TNG-Ktarians and Voyager-Ktarians don't seem to be so significant - it's not as if "The Game" or "The Chase" said Ktarians *don't* have music festivals, or as if Voyager said Ktarians *do* like mysteries after all. That is, there are no explicit contradictions. Or are there?
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On that note, what about all the different races with the name "Terellian?" That word seems to be the running joke in Star Trek whenever some alien race of the week pops up.
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No, he's referring to the Tarellians, Terellians, and Terrellians.
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
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No, the Tarellians were the plague-infested people that tried to land on Haven, and Troi's fiacné went to live on their ship. Terellians have four arms.
Terrellians don't really have any distinct characteristics known. They could be the same as the four-armers...
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
- really rolls of the tongue, and it actually sounds different than the usual barrage of -ians/-ites/-ons/-etc.
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
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I've always been rather partial to the name "Tzenkethi", myself...
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
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Not to forget the Nauseaans, er, Nausicaans.
Anybody remember fondly the days when species names contained silly if indirect references to the appearance of the species? Vendorians for a race that changes its appearance - Phylosians for intelligent plants - Argosians for underwater dwellers. I wonder if the Universal Translator has a "weird humor subroutine" for inventing these semi-translated names?
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