Sarpeidon technology vs. Iconian technology

Maybe Spock couldn't date the structures themselves, but rather was able to date events that collapsed the structures.

 

Likely he could not date the guardian due to the time distortion. Or maybe the Guardian did it deliberately to mask it's origins?

 

Good point. The episode describes "waves and waves of time displacement."

Kor

 

The ruins around it could be much younger that the Guardian it's self. I can imagine many civilizations rising and falling in the Guardian's lifetime.

 

It's the ruins of Gallifrey and that's the "Eye of Harmony" or possibly the "Untempered Schism" with an AI interface.

 

But it seems like somebody among those many civilizations standing in the vicinity of the giant stone donut would have asked "What is it?" like Kirk did.

Kor

 

...The question essentially becomes, why does the Guardian lie about its virginity?

It's not as if it were unskilled in turning the English phrase. And I sort of doubt the Guardian is speaking Guardianese which the UT of the heroes then mangles into an unintended lie; the Guardian seems to understand the heroes well enough, not just responding to their spoken words but "reading" them in some sort of greater depth so that it can put Earth in the crosshairs without prompting.

Timo Saloniemi

 

What if that number one rule of the civilizations was, "Don't talk to the Donut," something that had been passed down in their mythologies?

 

It answers as simply as the tech level of the questioners?

 

Yes, our science knowledge is obviously primitive.

Kor