Self-explanatory really, but it struck me today that I couldn't recall ever seeing a female Xindi. Were there some that I've forgotten?
Did we ever see a female Xindi?
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The lead Xindi-Aquatic was female -- Kiaphet Amman'sor. In "The Council," when Degra is briefing Archer about the Council members, he talks about her.
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I remember the female Aquatic, but can't think of anyone else, though Degra referenced his wife and children several times.
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That's why they destroyed their original home world, fighting over what few women there were.
I'm pretty sure we never see a humanoid female Xindi, just like we never see a female Tellarite.
This.
Aha, yes, you're right.
Well, the way I see it:
There's no reason not to assume half the Reptilians we saw- or more- were females.
They're reptiles; there won't be anything "feminine" about them from a mammalian viewpoint. We know Dolim was male- other than that, who knows? As for the Arboreals, aren't they marsupial? So again, we have no real reason not to assume half the background Arboreals weren't female, with teats in pouches instead of breasts (we know Jannar and Gralik were male). As stated already, the insectoids are asexual and Aquatic representative Kiaphet Amman'sor was identified as female.
But we certainly never saw a female Xindi-primate.
There's no reason not to assume half the Reptilians we saw- or more- were females.
They're reptiles; there won't be anything "feminine" about them from a mammalian viewpoint. We know Dolim was male- other than that, who knows? As for the Arboreals, aren't they marsupial? So again, we have no real reason not to assume half the background Arboreals weren't female, with teats in pouches instead of breasts (we know Jannar and Gralik were male). As stated already, the insectoids are asexual and Aquatic representative Kiaphet Amman'sor was identified as female. But we certainly never saw a female Xindi-primate.
I think we can safely assume that if a Reptilian or an Arboreal looked male but were never explicitly stated as such, they were male. Just look at the Cardassians: they were reptiles too, but they still had facial characteristics that clearly identified them as either male or female, not to mention that the female Cardassians had breasts. And whenever there's a one-gender or a three-gender race in Trek, they/the third sex looked androgynous.Well, the way I see it:
There's no reason not to assume half the Reptilians we saw- or more- were females.
But we certainly never saw a female Xindi-primate.
As for the Primates, it's true that we never saw a female one but as already stated in this thread, Degra's wife and children were mentioned several times.
^ They were scaly, cold-blooded, and liked hot temperatures. Sounds kind of reptilian.
I'm not saying that being male is some kind of "default setting". The Reptilians and Arboreals we've seen were simply supposed to be male and there's never any indication that those species only had one gender. If a species is supposed to sexless/have more than two genders in Trek, it shows. I don't have a problem with all the humanoid Xindi we've seen being male. Of course, they could say that the Reptilians/Arboreals/both were sexless in future Trek.
I guess I missed any on screen reference to them being cold blooded. Vulcans and some other races like heat but that does not mean they are reptiles. They just came from a warmer planet. They also had breasts, mated with other humanoids, and had babies instead of laying eggs.
Hmmm. I must have missed any on screen reference to Vulcans actually liking heat. Just because they come from a hot planet doesn't mean they prefer it. As for Cardassians, there's numerous references to how they love heat - which I believe was intended to give us the idea that they're reptilian.
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