Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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Man, that was the funniest 2 comics I ever saw. When Kirk surrenders the Excelsior to a ship that doesn't even have an iota of its power...when the guy breaks the universal translator & then is admonished for stealing Scotty's repair lines...when LT Naraht watches the Ajir eat the table & thinks, "Boy, I bet that tastes awfully good..."
And then the Grond show up & blast the Ajir ship to shit & they have to go through everything again...
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Intelligent cat-creatures are a terrible idea. Cats developed the way they have due to environmental pressures: fur, claws tail for balance while hunting etc. simply because they were needed to survive. If a planet really did develop a intelligent race from cats they would not still look like cats at all after millions of years of evolution and the easy life that a technologically advanced species would have.
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Well, let's be fair here. Giant talking cats are a bad idea for aesthetic reasons, not scientific ones. If we're tossing out aliens because they're unworkable than we'll be left with zero hours of Star Trek to watch.
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Okay. I was just pointing out that anything that evolved to an intelligent lifeform would not look like lower lifeforms from our isolated planet.
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OK, OK!!! I won't use the Tzenkethi, or any of their derivative races, remote descendants, offspring, or anything that is described as even remotely cat-like in my fan fiction project.
Shame on me for starting the thread in the first place.
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE PUSSIES OF WAR!
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Artificial insemination: Sulu and Chekov were just a little too chummy for all those years for "just freinds".
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I know this is rather late in the conversation to go back to the "rights" issue, but I recall there being talk that maybe, just maybe, the DS9 people were going to have to pay royalties to the bloke who wrote "Mirror, Mirror" (I have John Black in my head, although I'm 100% sure that's wrong), for use of the mirror universe. FOR SOME CRAZY REASON.
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Registered: Mar 1999
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Artificial insemination? I don't follow you Jason. Which one of these blokes had ovaries that needed to be fertilized without the sex act?
Are you talking about a child being created from two same sex partners and male pregnancy? To do that a woman would need to donate an egg and the chromosomes in this egg would need to be replaced with the chromosomes found in a sperm cell of one of the partners. This procedure would have to happen in a lab, and invitro fertilization techniques (test tube baby) would need to be used.
So I guess it would be Sulu who would to have the embryo transplanted into his body and carry it toterm. After nine months, baby Demora would be delivered by Caesarian section.
I know that your post was a joke. But the idea does not seem as far-fetched as it first appears, its a logical outcome of the genetic engineering, cloning and fertility research currently being performed, and I am really surprised that the idea hasn't shown up yet in a Trek episode. Although such appearance of this idea, like same sex marriages, would be met with some controversy.
By the way, artificial insemination or AI, is a way to cause pregnancy without having a male on hand. It is a technique commonly used on farms to breed cattle. I believe that it used on a limited basis to breed swine and horses.
Semen is collected from the male, it is placed in glass vials called ampules, and then placed into a tank of liquid nitrogen to slow the cells down and keep them alive. When pregnancy is desired, the semen is "thawed", then introduced into the female using a syringe-like device.
What makes it pretty cool is that children can be produced from a father years after he is dead, and it allows farmers and ranchers to create herds of animals with genetic diversity and eliminate inbreeding problems.
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