Memory Alpha has changed the name Rhaandarite to Vegan
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The Rhaandarite page on Memory Alpha now refers to them as Vegan:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Vegan
I've posted my thoughts on the talk page. The link is here:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Vegan#Suggestion_to_move_to_Vegan
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Vegan#Suggestion_to_move_to_Vegan
Looks like a mountain out of a mole hill and pretty sad to rally the troops.
Don't look at me. I'd long been under the impression that Van Zandt's character in TMP was Dobius, the Tanian. Which is rather odd, given that Memory Beta list that name and species as only coming up in the otherwise-forgettable Triangle. (I was sure that Diane Duane had used him in at least one novel!)
I have a distinct memory of the phrase "high-pated Rhaandarite" showing up in print somewhere - Roddenberry's TMP novelization? An old Best of Trek volume? I don't know. Google only returns "high-domed Vegans."
I don't expect I'll lose any sleep over the issue, at any rate.
I don't expect I'll lose any sleep over the issue, at any rate.
Michael Dorn is a vegan these days. We should change the name of the 'Klingon' article, it's so passé.
Wow, I never realized that Triangle featured a character that was meant to be Van Zandt's ensign. I don't remember that character, but I no doubt assumed he was created for the book. (Triangle is also the book that uses the name "Zaranite" from TMP but reinterprets them as humanlike.)
The TMP novelization only describes the ensign as "one of the relief crewmembers," without any suggestion that he's even an alien. And other than my own books, the only thing I can think of that's featured a Rhaandarite character was something by Margaret Wander Bonanno, probably Catalyst of Sorrows.
Huh? It's just a discussion. It seems perfectly civil and non-histrionic to me -- aside from the posts gratuitously attacking those people who've chosen to participate in it.
And indeed, I have absolutely no idea whether Marshak & Culbreath intended Dobius to be Van Zandt's character.
My understanding is that on the set, he was simply referred to as "the geek." In the sense of one who eats small animals alive.
Whatever his species, he was definitely not Athendë the Sulamid! (Has anybody come up with a picture of a Sulamid, to match Diane Duane's description?)
Didn't Dobius have a bifurcated head with two independent brains? I'm sure there is an image of a background alien out there that might fit the bill but I don't think it's the Rhaandarite. Vegan was an early draft name for them but can't they be Rhaandarites from Vega?
I was thinking of trying to find a picture online that would approximate my mental image of a Sulamid, but I realized that Googling for "purple mass of tentacles" would probably turn up quite a few not-safe-for-work results...
Then again -- maybe something like this: http://www.123rf.com/photo_8860864_sea-anemone--sea-flower--vector.html (But more vertical and with eyes in there somewhere.)
Indeed. This is a Trek forum - gathering together to discuss the minutiae is pretty much our reason to be here.
Was my posts one of those? I really didn't mean it as an attack, I just didn't realize it was an issue.
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