sphinx-headed larva monsters

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:29 am

I cant remember were I read it but I heard they are supposedly not from our Galaxy. They fleed here from another. Which would mean they either use generational ships or have superfast ships. Which should make them far more powerful than they are.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:30 am

well one, non-cannon background is that they originated from another galaxy, its the starfleet battles/command tabletop wargame/computer game

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:43 pm

Possible, but is there any canon info about that?
Although the fact that they're aparantly made of stone would be rather unlikely to happen in our universe.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:47 pm

Rochey wrote:Possible, but is there any canon info about that?
Although the fact that they're aparantly made of stone would be rather unlikely to happen in our universe.

Unlikely, but it's happened. The Horta from TOS's "Devil in the Dark" - silicon-based lifeforms.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:49 pm

True, but then again, I was thinking more from common sense.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:50 pm

The histrionic non-cannon stuff for the tholians was a bit naff and inconsistent with alot of 'trek, but if tholians are silicon based,it would make them suitably 'alien' and thus even cooler in my cool books

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:55 pm

Indeed, Tholians are one of the coolest things Trek came up with.
Too bad they never showed up more.

Blackstar the Chakat · Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:27 pm

The Tholians are cool and all, but where does Tholian silk come from? Can a crystaline lifeform produce silk?

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:18 am

It might not come from them but just made by them.

Yeah I like the fact that we have a nine humanoid species. Makes it seem more real.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:50 pm

Yeah, it was getting to be ridiculous with all the near-human races.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:26 pm

That's why I like them so much. Even the new big bad designed for TNG was, albeit not humanoid in the strictest sense, composed of beings who were once humanoid species and then bionically altered. The Tholians remain one of the most novel concepts for a species.

Maybe there is a "genetic" similarity or relation between them and the microcrystalline life from from TNG's "Home Soil" or the entity from "Silicon Avatar"?

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:30 pm

They could also be related to the Crystaline entinty that destroyed Datas home world.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:43 pm

I believe that IS the one from "Silicon Avatar."

N'tran DS 12 · Post by **N'tran DS 12** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:32 am

A Tholian Web might not net a ship easily, but a station would be toast.

A DS 9 episode mentions a Tholian ambassador on board.....
Wish we could have seen him/her/it

N'tran

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:55 am

Why would you want to catch a station? It doesnt move.

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