Subj : Re: Why do Romulans have ridges? To : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 From : ANIM8Rfsk Date : Sun Oct 02 2005 11:11:28 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 in article EcS%e.5230$U51.1933@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Fozzi at efor6920@bigpond.net.au wrote on 10/2/05 7:33 AM: > > "ANIM8Rfsk" wrote in message > news:BF65332B.54CFE%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net... >> in article WzK%e.4830$U51.4192@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Fozzi at >> efor6920@bigpond.net.au wrote on 10/1/05 10:51 PM: >> >>> >>> "ANIM8Rfsk" wrote in message >>> news:BF647972.54B99%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net... >>>> in article 8TD%e.4516$U51.2027@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Fozzi at >>>> efor6920@bigpond.net.au wrote on 10/1/05 3:14 PM: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> wrote in message >>>>> news:1128202806.955133.136280@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... >>>> >>> >>> So, shock horror, there is more than one race among the romulan species, >>> You >>> do realise that this is actually extremely likely for a species >>> distributed >>> around even a single planet, let alone the dozens possibly hundreds that >>> the >>> romulan empire has been implied to have dont you? >>> >>> cheers >>> fozzi >>> >>> >> Too bad they never showed anything like that, or said anything like that. >> >> -- >> >> You Can't Stop the Signal >> > > Never said they did, but it is too bad that some trekkies cant look beyond > the obvious and use their own brains to fill in details that should be > pretty obvious, if there is more than one climactic zone there will be more > than one race, that a planet supporting life would have only one climactic > zone is not only unlikely, it is ridiculous, ergo....... Ergp we should do the writers job for them, and assume things are the way you think they should be, regardless of their being no evidence that's how they are, and plenty that they aren't. > > It is interesting that many rabid TOS supporters want to stick to canon like > some religious Dogma It's interesting that some rabid TOS supporters just want to make up their own canon and claim that's what trumps what's said on screen. > > Rodenberry was a writer, dreamer, and self proclaimed visionary, do you > really think a man with that personality would want people to never use > their own imagination, if you do then , with all due respect, you have erred > greatly LOL. And a PKB to you. > > cheers > fozzi > > -- You Can't Stop the Signal .