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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:29 am
by Teaos
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:30 am
by Granitehewer
well one, non-cannon background is that they originated from another galaxy, its the starfleet battles/command tabletop wargame/computer game
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:43 pm
by Sionnach Glic
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:47 pm
by Captain Seafort
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:49 pm
by Sionnach Glic
True, but then again, I was thinking more from common sense.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:50 pm
by Granitehewer
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
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:55 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Indeed, Tholians are one of the coolest things Trek came up with.
Too bad they never showed up more.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:27 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
The Tholians are cool and all, but where does Tholian silk come from? Can a crystaline lifeform produce silk?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:18 am
by Teaos
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:50 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Yeah, it was getting to be ridiculous with all the near-human races.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:26 pm
by Mikey
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"?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:30 pm
by Teaos
They could also be related to the Crystaline entinty that destroyed Datas home world.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:43 pm
by Mikey
I believe that IS the one from "Silicon Avatar."
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:32 am
by N'tran DS 12
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
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:55 am
by Teaos
Why would you want to catch a station? It doesnt move.