Well, Archer did steal a key piece of their warp engine. Homeworld probably didn't find out for a few decades.
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Well, Archer did steal a key piece of their warp engine. Homeworld probably didn't find out for a few decades.
That is just fan speculation because of the similar sounding Kzinti and the untrue story that Star Trek: The Animated Series was declared apocryphal because of "The Slaver Weapon" and a dispute with Larry Niven. Or that the Tzenkethi were created to portray the Kzinti in live action Star Trek without securing permission from Larry Niven in an episode or episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I've only seen the Tzenkethi portrayed as a feline species in fan fiction in which fan fiction authors believe that these myths are true.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe commented about the creation of the Tzenkethi at ex Isle forum:
http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?/topic/42306-ds9-question-for-robert-hewitt-wolfe/
Which are based neither on Larry Niven's Kzinti or Jack L. Chalker's Hakazit.
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Eh?
Considering we only followed the adventures of a few starships called Enterprise, one space station called DS9, and one starship called Voyager, there were probably many historical events that never got mentioned even once.
And one Pocket Books' "Strange New Worlds" story, also written by a fan. A Tzenkethi male described as a "feliform" biped ("DS9: Infinite Bureaucracy" in "Strange New Worlds VII").
In 2006, the screenwriter Robert Hewitt Wolfe, who coined the term "Tzenkethi" for DS9 recalled, "I basically made them up. And yeah, I named them. But I can't remember if I was making a purposeful homage to Niven or not. If I had to guess, I suspect I did my usual and combined a couple things. Probably Kzinti and Tsankth. But when I picture them in my head, they weren't big cat people. I thought of them as more like the Hakazit."
The Tsankth are from the "RuneQuest" and "HeroQuest" RPGs. The Hakazit are from Jack L Chalker's "Well World" novels, and are described inconsistently as either: three-metre tall Tyrannosaurus Rexes with powerfully strong arms; or large mosquitoes.
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Then we have the stories that the Kzinti were to appear in Star Trek: Enterprise Season Five:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kzinti
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kzinti
Whaaaaaaaaat???? Enterprise ended before the E/R War was slated to begin. And the events of the fourth season were clearly setting up the Romulan War. So I can't understand why you'd say this.
^There wasn't the slightest mention of it in "These Are The Voyages", set supposedly after it.
There are so many things wrong with that episode, which arise from the fact that it was originally written to be set in the same year as the rest of the season, but was sloppily rewritten to bump it six years forward when the cancellation came down. So it can't be taken too seriously. Where it conflicts with the rest of canon, the rest of canon should take precedence. It's blindingly obvious from the Aenar trilogy that the producers intended to lead into the Romulan War if they'd gotten subsequent seasons. It makes no sense to ignore that preponderance of evidence just because "These Are the Voyages" was an incoherent mess.
My point isn't that the Earth/Romulan War didn't happen, I was pointing out to Timo that if a conflict like that can go unmentioned in a story set immediately after (or concurrent to, in the case of early TNG and the Cardassian war), the same can be true of the Man/Kzin wars, mentioned in "The Slaver Weapon" and taking place (in the Trekverse) between FC and ENT.
Well, feline Xindi would probably explain why there's no avians around thesedays...
Well, feline Xindi would probably explain why there's no avians around thesedays...
LOL!
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