Unresolved Trek trailer questions
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That would be an interesting twist.
What Voyager episode said there was an organ for this anyway? I can't find any reference to that.
Was it "Mind Meld", the first Suder ep.?
To me, these things seem so huge that they're not neccessarilly everywhere, just that they can be seen from practically anywhere. Judging by the atmospheric haze, they are so incredibly far away that they would dwarf even Everest significantly. Half a dozen of these built in North America, would be visable from everywhere in North America.
This is what puzzles me about these structures though, what type of structure would need to be so big it transcends atmospheric strata? Neither arcologies or weather stations, or even starship factories can really account for the scales involved. Unless they're a lot closer and smaller than they appear, and are partially cloaked.
Whatever they are, they've got my imagination working.
Perhaps they are large arcologies, acknowledged to be such eyesores that they are deliberately shrouded in mist?
As for the "Meld" references to Vulcan biological adaptation to emotion suppression:
No real mention of a specialized organ, just mention that a certain area of the cortex happens to be involved in the effort of "psycho-suppression". It's not even established that other species such as humans wouldn't have the very same thing (and indeed by current medical knowledge humans do).
On the broader issue, evolution of specialized organs as the result of cultural choices is by no means impossible or even unlikely. After all, our style of bipedal gait is probably the result of evolution initiated by the cultural choice of descending from the trees. And of the level discussed in "Meld", there are examples of certain areas of the motor cortex increasing in size and activity when one takes on e.g. violin playing. If the ability to play the violin were a survivability issue, then those with larger respective areas would enjoy an advantage and outbreed those with smaller areas, repeating the pseudo-Lamarckian feat but carrying it from generation to generation.
Timo Saloniemi
As for the "Meld" references to Vulcan biological adaptation to emotion suppression:
No real mention of a specialized organ, just mention that a certain area of the cortex happens to be involved in the effort of "psycho-suppression". It's not even established that other species such as humans wouldn't have the very same thing (and indeed by current medical knowledge humans do).
On the broader issue, evolution of specialized organs as the result of cultural choices is by no means impossible or even unlikely. After all, our style of bipedal gait is probably the result of evolution initiated by the cultural choice of descending from the trees. And of the level discussed in "Meld", there are examples of certain areas of the motor cortex increasing in size and activity when one takes on e.g. violin playing. If the ability to play the violin were a survivability issue, then those with larger respective areas would enjoy an advantage and outbreed those with smaller areas, repeating the pseudo-Lamarckian feat but carrying it from generation to generation.
Timo Saloniemi
Wrong.
