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 : Scoop Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 17:08:37 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise In alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen, Mike Dicenso wrote: : On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, David Johnston wrote: :> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 00:00:30 -0400, "Mercury" :> 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. Why? .