Which hybrids are/are not possible?

[Epsilon IX]

Throughout the series we have seen various hybirds wh are half-human half-whatever (eg. Spock, Deanna, Ziyal, B'Elenna), but what I would like to know is which combinations are possible and what are not. For example, I don't think a human/Gorn hybrid is possible (or least I can't imagine one! ). A Vulcan/Bolian hybrid would not be possible since their physiologies would be totally imcompatible (apparently their blood types were totally different and a transfusion between each other would be fatal). This would also be a fun exercise for someone wishing to write a fanfiction, and is planning on putting a hybrid within it, but can't decide what.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well it was made clear that a Trill and a Klingon couldnt conceive naturally and required medical assistance to do so.
(Jadzia/Worf)

 

[Timo]

And Deanna Troi thought Klingon and human weren't an easy mix in TNG "Reunion". When the issue arose again in VOY, apparently it did take a lot of trying and close supervision by the EMH (the old perv!).

In contrast, we have Bajoran-Cardassian hybrids in "Cardassians" and "Indiscretion", supposedly born accidentally. Or did the Cardassian men deliberately provide medical assistance to their mistresses for conceiving children that the men knew would jeopardize their social standing back home? Out of sheer sadism, perhaps? (It's not as if the women of the occupied world would have been in a position to obtain such assistance, in misguided hopes of positively influencing their exploiters.)

It's probably just a function of the current state of medical art, though. Archer's crew thought all sorts of hybrids would be impossible, while Picard's crew only worried about Klingon-human and Janeway's about Vulcan-Bolian. Future innovations might lead to effortless Vulcan-Bolian fusion as well. (After all, Vulcan and human blood chemistries are also supposedly completely different, yet it was possible even back in the 22nd century to infuse human elements to a child that had Vulcan-type circulation.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[EnsignJulka]

I wonder what a hybrid of an Andorian and a Klingon would look like?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

EnsignJulka said:
I wonder what a hybrid of an Andorian and a Klingon would look like?

Any hybrid with an Andorian would be interesting to see, but i'd rather see an Andorian/Cardassian Hybrid, now THAT would be a sight.

 

[EnsignJulka]

Fire said:

EnsignJulka said:
I wonder what a hybrid of an Andorian and a Klingon would look like?

Any hybrid with an Andorian would be interesting to see, but i'd rather see an Andorian/Cardassian Hybrid, now THAT would be a sight.

Maybe I should suggest that in the photoshop thread...

 

[greenmystik]

Already been done. Go check it out, it looks interesting.

 

[cultcross]

Epsilon IX said:
A Vulcan/Bolian hybrid would not be possible since their physiologies would be totally imcompatible (apparently their blood types were totally different and a transfusion between each other would be fatal).

To be fair, a transfusion between humans with the wrong blood type can be fatal.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Fire said:
Well it was made clear that a Trill and a Klingon couldnt conceive naturally and required medical assistance to do so.
(Jadzia/Worf)

Ah yes, but what about a Klingon and a Tribble?

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Are Vorta capable of reproducing naturally? I don't think so. Put them down as a species that can't become part of a hybrid.

 

[Nebusj]

Timo said:
It's probably just a function of the current state of medical art, though.

I'd expect it's almost entirely a matter of the state of the art in medical affairs. Trek seems to have settled on humanoid life being mostly based on DNA, which might well be wrong in reality but is plausible enough to me. (The DNA molecule is much more complicated than the water molecule, but both are governed by the same laws of physics and chemistry, after all. There are almost certainly more base pairs than exist on Earth, but the structure would be recognizable.)

Assuming that one has an understanding of the genes which make up a person (big assumption, admittedly), then manipulating that of one species into a ``translation'' for the other partner is ... a big challenge, but one that's not inconceivable. But it all depends on how well the creatures involved are known.

Probably some are just irreconcilable, such as between carbon- and silicon-based lifeforms, however interesting a Vulcan-Excalbian hybrid would be. And all those non-corporeal entities that Kirk kept encountering would be serious challenges, although at least at the time of ``Lonely Among Us'' Picard seemed to think there might be a way to snuggle up to an energy-form.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Timo said:
In contrast, we have Bajoran-Cardassian hybrids in "Cardassians" and "Indiscretion", supposedly born accidentally.

The Pocket book, "New Worlds, New Civilizations" has an article that speculates further on the ancient Hebitians, the first civilization on the planet Cardassia (mentioned briefly on DS9), who were perhaps a common ancestor of both Bajorans and Cardassians.

 

[alicelouise]

Romulan/Human are possible. Ocampa/Human also possible. Horta/Human...not for a while. Cardassian/Human anyone? In some ST fiction there are Bajoran/Humans. In a DS9 book there was a Bajoran/Ferengi hybrid. These are random musings.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Ferengi/Andorian hybrid. Hysterical!

 

[Therin of Andor]

alicelouise said:
Horta/Human...not for a while.

A person whom everyone takes for granite.

 

[Bill Morris]

Vorta/Horta: NO CLONE I.

 

[EnsignJulka]

Therin of Andor said:

alicelouise said:
Horta/Human...not for a while.

A person whom everyone takes for granite.

 

[FordSVT]

Are Vorta capable of reproducing naturally? I don't think so. Put them down as a species that can't become part of a hybrid.

They're not, but there's no reason to rule out putting them into the "could mix with some species with medical intervention" category. In fact, being genetically engineered being in the first place, it might be relatively easy to splice their genes with those of another species.