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Subj : Re: Why do Romulans have ridges?
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From : rgorman
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 00:54:58

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

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:57:54 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"
<liam@valentijn.nu> wrote:

>David Johnston wrote:
>> On 4 Oct 2005 04:41:36 -0700, "masonReloaded" <jonmason1977@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> electrictroy@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 2000 years ago, the Romulans left Vulcan.  They thought Surak's "no
>>>> emotion; pure logic" preaching was nuts, so they left Vulcan &
>>>> carried the warring culture with them.  Fast-forward to the
>>>> "present" and we see Kirk & Picard & Sisko fighting against or
>>>> allying with those Vulcan descendents, but calling themselves
>>>> Romulans.  Same species... different names.
>>>>
>>>> So why the ridges?  2000 years is NOT a long enough time to evolve a
>>>> whole new species.
>>>
>>> If it's not time to evolve ridges then let's not even start on the
>>> Remans...
>>
>> Nobody that I can recall said the Remans were Vulcan offshoots...any
>> more than any other humanoid species.
>
>The Remans were indigenous to the system that Romulans arrived in when they 
>left Vulcan.
>As for offshoots.... A large number of humanoid species *are* offshoots. 

Yeah, yeah.  That's why I added the caveat.

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