Way to Eden Question

[Lethe]

So what exactly do you think happened to Dr. Sevrin's ears? Some kind of counter-culture body modification ritual?

 

[BillJ]

Just thought they were natural for a Tiburon... his native race.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Quite so. The only other person we see that may have been from Tiburon is Zora and her ears are hidden by her hair.

 

[Christopher]

Yes, they were clearly meant to be an "alien" anatomical feature, just like Spock's pointed ears. As for Zora, it was never stated definitively that she was a Tiburonian, just that she experimented on them.

We have seen a Tiburonian on DS9 with ears like Dr. Sevrin's, plus a bit of extra bumpage on the forehead, since it's a Westmore redesign:

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/5x02/theship_065.jpg
http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/5x02/theship_137.jpg

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If not for T'Lor, we could have made the inevitable joke about Sevrin's ears...being caught in a Tiburonian rice-picker.

 

[Tan Ru]

Rice picker.

 

[Lethe]

D'oh! I don't know why but I always assumed Sevrin was human. And I never made the Zora-Tiburon-Sevrin connection!

Thanks for all the info.

 

[Christopher]

Hmm, I never thought to check before, but both "The Way to Eden" and "The Savage Curtain" were co-written by Arthur Heinemann, so I guess that explains why Tiburon was mentioned in both. I wonder why he chose that name (the Spanish word for "shark").

 

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder why he chose that name (the Spanish word for "shark").

IIRC, it's also a locality in San Francisco?

Ah: Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. It occupies most of the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay. (Wikipedia.)

 

[ToddPence]

Sevrin was said to have had a research assignment on Tiburon. He may not necessarily have been native to that planet and may come from another, unnamed world.