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Do you think they could have domesticated the worm?

Guy Gardener

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That big frakk who ate Hogan.

Hogan was a Stud.

Poor bastard.

If the crew hadn't escaped...

Assume the species was gregarious to some degree.

Great shades of Dune and all, but considering how long it would take them to "invent technology" utilizing these beasts of burden would be a good start to building a new society...

Was it a Snake or a worm?

But frack it, on worm-back the "Humans" wound quickly have become the dominate power on the Basics planet as they built empire bringing civilization to... You know if they forgot about the Prime Directive. The strictist reading of th Prime Directive would have insisted that Janeway's marooned crew commit group suicide into the lava flow to destroy any evidence of their existence which might effect the natural development of this species.

Odds are those spacecavemen are going to spend the next thousand years worshipping "the ship" as a god after seeing it rise up and fly off like she did.

But who is going to be the best wormrider?

Trickwormrider?

Who'd be able to ride the largest worm?

How devastating would those creatures be in War?

In horticulture?

Who'd be in charge of the husbandry?:

Chakotay already proved that he gave huge horny monsters soft-ons in Elogium.

With animals like that to back them up, it'd knock a couple generations off any space program Janeway started the forward planning on, when thinking about how shit it would be to die on that planet without a change of shoes.
 
As long as Chakotay doesn't go all Muad'Dib I'm down with anything.

Especially the horticulture. Enough with the Vulcan orchids, let's get some MAN flowers in this show.
 
Big saddles or bareback?

Remember Teenwolf?

Worm dancing?

What about personalification?

Tattoo the shit out of the Worms to show banner and pride.

Have flames up the side.

Sweet.

Remember Dinoriders?

they could be building house sized structures on top of these worms running the length.

A big enough worm could have full time residents.

When they left, in the series for real, I wonder if they took cell samples so they could make 'worms" elsewhere if they thought of a use for them.
 
No one will know the gender of the worms for sure. The viewer may assume anything according to their own predilection.

It's a breathtaking plan.
 
You didn't read the article?

Worms are hermaphrodites.

They mutually/simultaneously milk sperm from one another during a masculine sex act to be used later to selfertilize the eggs they lay.

200 hundred feet long creatures who are gagging for it and have no standards.

Hmmm.

Tremors?

Though I imagine that the sex act can be "conducted" like music by the worm riders if thy're feeling a bit bossy.
 
Are you going to include all this worm info in the special features section of the dvd? Because if not Joe Trekker is going to be watching the worm steeds getting it on and making up the genders in his head as he wishes.

Then again maybe the Doctor can give a little lecture about all that sperm mid episode.
 
You know how when you're dribbling basketball and you lose control. It starts away from you and you run after it, but kick the ball by accident and then you fall on the bugger and hit yourself in the chin with your knee...

Replace "basketball" with "my brain".

I'm hastily imagining a production of "Grease" on the basics world where they are using Worms for props/penis metaphors instead of automobiles.
 
Kes can be the good girl Sandy and in the end when she shows up leathers it will be Fury on the desert track. Kes is hot, hot, hotter.. then she EXPLODES. Worm parts everywhere.
 
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