Eating mice: how?

[E-DUB]

I think it’s weird that the various Xindi species were supposedly as close as humans and Neanderthals. Does that mean they could interbreed? What would you get if you crossed an Insectoid with an Aquatic?

I feel like I'm waiting for a punchline here.

 

[Kor]

Phlox said that Archer's "humans and Neanderthals" comparison was "a reasonable analogy." There may have been lots of differences from that, which he didn't go into for the sake of brevity.

We only saw the distinct Xindi sub-species, no indication of interbreeding. Maybe there's some cultural taboo against it. Or in Star Trek fashion, certain species can reproduce together successfully or they can't, depending on the needs of the plot.

Kor

 

[dupersuper]

Phlox said that Archer's "humans and Neanderthals" comparison was "a reasonable analogy." There may have been lots of differences from that, which he didn't go into for the sake of brevity.

Phlox also has no idea how evolution works in the first place, so take anything he says about this with a grain of salt.

 

[Oddish]

I think that the evolutionary split point for Xindi was pretty far back, and it's just coincidental that all five seperate species became sentient. So, they wouldn't be any more interfertile than, say, a dolphin and a crow (two intelligent Terran species).