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In season 6 and 7 of TNG The Yridians seemed to be popping up a bit more often. Their ship was seen in "The Chase". Was this new model - or was it a redress of some older model?
What was that shite that Voyager said about the Yridians btw?
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i beleave it was a redressed antaries class
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I thought it was a redressed ship of the Tamarian/Talarian/Tawhatever-race (same race as Endar, the guy with the human "son"). They just added the spherical thing at the rear end. I've seen it a dozen times, and I'm sure I've seen it even before "the chase".
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"Equinox" suggested that Captain Randsom made first contact with the Yridians. I'm not sure why that raises your bile while Picard meeting the Ferengi for the first time ever is somehow beloved fact.
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The Yridian's were thought to be extinct - Ransom found them again. How the Borg knew they were extinct is beyond me.
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AFAIK, the Yridian ship was an original model, with the distinction that every time it was used, it was used for the Yridians. It was never recycled as another race's ship.
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I don't have any pictures handy, but I do agree with Dukhat. From what I recall, there were only two of those wing-like things pointing upward, and the forward hull was not the simple wedge of the Talarian ships.
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Yeah, the Yridian destroyer/transport from "The Chase"/"Firstborn" seemed to be an all-new model, with rounded shapes instead of the Imperial Star Destroyer kitbash hulls used in the two Talarian models.
And yeah, Ransom made contact with the Yridians when others thought they were extinct. The dialogue went something like this (paraphrasing Jim Wright's reviews):
"Do you know this individual?" Seven asks. "Only by reputation," Janeway says. "He was an exo-biologist, promoted to Captain after he made first contact with the Yridians."
Seven is surprised. "Species 6291. The Collective determined that they were extinct."
"So did the Federation," Janeway says, smiling. "Ransom proved otherwise. I always wanted to meet him. Too bad it won't be under better circumstances."
So one could safely say that this contact took place before we first saw Yridians in TNG. Janeway seems to consider Ransom her senior (except when it comes to wrestling for command), and the contact took place before Ransom made four pips.
So if we are going to see Yridians in ENT, no problem: just say that a few years or decades later, they will go up in a great ball of fire and everybody will mistake them for dead. This disaster need not be shown or even hinted at... Perhaps the Doomsday Machine will eat their homeworld? Perhaps, since they were information merchants, they saw it advantageous to withhold the information of their continuing existence?
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Ah, so I guess the Yridian Voyager comment wasn't too bad... maybe it's the fact that the Borg were so sloppy in their investigations about the Yridian's existance sounds a bit... wierd?
I guess nothing reguarding them since their 'appearance' in 2369 till Seven's disconnection in 2374 was ever assimilated. (If this is the only way Borg gain knowledge.)
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The alternative is that the Yridian extinction took place after the TNG appearances, and made all the headlines. Ransom then found out that six individuals had survived on Backwater VI, was promoted to captain of the Equinox, and immediately disappeared on his first mission... The immensity of the extinction then outshadowed Ransom's discovery - a discovery that was only of academic interest, that is, of interest to people like Janeway. With Ransom's disappearance, his findings might even have become contested, or the remaining six might have died. Few assimilation victims in the 2370s would thus possess the knowledge of Yridian "survival".
I'd rather believe that Ransom made his discovery well before TNG...
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