Subj : Re: Why do Romulans have ridges?
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From : Mike Dicenso
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 03:33:14

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.ds9



On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, David Johnston wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 00:00:30 -0400, "Mercury" <nobody@nospam.null>
> wrote:
>
>
> >This explains why the Romulans in TOS were ridge-less (pure chance that
> >those were the ones Kirk managed to encounter), why Spock passes for Romulan
> >(though they are a minority, there are still plenty of ridge-less Romulans),
> >and why we have seen ridged Vulcans
>
> Falls apart there.  We've never seen ridged Vulcans.


That might not be entirely true as we seen TNG's "Gambit Parts I & II" a
Vulcan female (posing as a Romulan in Baran's pirate gang) who has ridges.
Whether this is a disguise or not is never made clear, but we should
consider the possibility that she has the ridges naturally.
-Mike

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