The fluid in fluidic space would exert upon itself an unbearable pressure and voyager would have been crushed like a plastic cup in the hand of Hulk, a day when was really angry.
dont get fluidic space
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The fluid in fluidic space would exert upon itself an unbearable pressure and voyager would have been crushed like a plastic cup in the hand of Hulk, a day when was really angry.
Yet that is exactly how Torres first describes it, before the crew starts using the term 'fluidic space' as a shorthand:
Again, the episode indicates exactly that.
Of course, it can be that Torres was mistaken, and that species 8472 lied to Kes, or that the misheard. But still.
Do they ever mention the three legs or is it something we're supposed to notice by ourselves?
Ach I forgot. It doesn't invalidate the rest--there can still be denser, fishbowl regions--but it does make me alter my thinking of what it looks/feels like.
I can't believe 8472 evolved alone. Too crazy. Maybe they wiped out everything else, but why would they exterminate nonsentients? Unless that is a long-view thing and they don't want anything else to evolve in fluidic space? Or maybe fluidic space is not their region of origin, possibly they migrated there from somewhere else?
Perhaps the last. IMHO, they don't look like they evolved in a fluid (having legs and all). (But then again, how would we know for sure).
Are there any planets in fluidic space or is it just fluid everywhere, sort of like the monean planet?
Just after they entered fluidic space:
Whether that would mean there are none in all of fluidic space, or just that they couldn't detect one in sensor range at that instant, I wouldn't know ...
Whether that would mean there are none in all of fluidic space, or just that they couldn't detect one in sensor range at that instant, I wouldn't know ...
If they did, that would argue for fluidic space not being uniform. Maybe there are areas where there are "stepping stones" made out of super-dense chunks of space that they would be able to walk on and leap from, hop around on...I kind of like that picture, it's very alien...
What is wrong with you people?
Anyways soornge why do you keep posting with the inherent assumption people are going to hate you and pre empting it with defensive comments? Honestly, we give people a chance here before we start throwing faecal matter.
As for fluidic space.....it seems to be exactly the same as normal space but with nothing in it except 8472. I'd have liked a little more thought go into it myself.
I thought the implication was that Species 8472 eliminated all other life in their dimension. Not that they were literally the only species to evolve there.
I'd be more interested to know why we never see them walk on their three legs.
All other intelligent life, I could understand. But all other life ? That would probably be exceedingly hard, just as it would be for us to kill every single last microbe on earth. Besides, what nutrition does species 8472 use ?
They're like the founders, they don't eat.
Fluidic space itself? It's the only thing that makes sense in an otherwise idiotic premise.
That said, there had to be something about that realm that would lead them to evolve. If there was no competition for resources, they'd have been evolutionary complacent all the way back as single-cell organisms.
I kinda figured Fluidic Space was made up of less evolved cells on the same evolutionary path that led to Species 8472, the same as 8472's living ships, only to a greater extent. The same as everything that lived in Fluidic Space before 8472 either killed it all or adapted it to their use.
Do you want Seaquest DSV? Because that is how you get Seaquest DSV. :harumph:
If they are that rapacious then I don't see them doing anything but destroying, ever. But we've seen they can be reasoned with, make deals...and that's another thing. A sentient species that eliminated all other life in an entire region of space, presumably including sentient life, would have about zero diplomatic ability. But again in In the Flesh the fake Boothby shows fairly impressive diplomatic ability.
I mean, you have to work hard to not be considered prey by the Hirogen. Everyone starts out as prey to them. Now consider a race to whom everyone else is just a target for instant death.
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It all just goes to show how poorly the whole concept was. I *think* they were trying to show what our universe would be like if the Borg "won" by eliminating/assimilating all other life, which is why they were able to be so competitive with them. It just kind of failed miserably.
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"Fluidic space" was only one stupid idea among many, like people that de-age, people that sleep all the time, viruses that grow, people living inside a rock, giant "pitcher plant" that swallows ships, people that make you forget that they exist...etc