Talk:Vulcan (Star Trek)
I need to know
- when Vulcans discovered space travel/warp flight
- time of the Great Awakening
- size of proportion of Vulcan population that became Romulans
- name of Vulcan to make first contact with Zephram Cochrane
-- Timwi 14:07 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I contend that the link to the "Vulcan Mentat" Yahoo Group doesn't belong, since it has little to do with the Vulcans of Star Trek, and isn't a source of further information such as belongs in an encyclopedia. That's why I'm removing it (again). -- Arteitle 22:59, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Something has always puzzled me about the Star Trek vulcans. They can interbreed with humans, so biologically must be considered Homo sapiens, i.e. a human race. However they are found on an alien planet and while obviously very similar to humans, and obviously sharing a common evolution, they differ in important details, e.g., the "green blood". Have the producers of the series ever given any coherent explanation for this, and for how the two races found themselves on different planets in the first place? Goatherd 12:28, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Basically all humanoid species in Trek can interbreed. We've seen Klingon/Human, Vulcan/Human, Cardassian/Bajoran relationships for starters. This is explaned with technobabble to do with medical processes that are used for such breeding, but it hasn't really been adequately addressed. Morwen 12:37, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)
- It was discovered in the TNG episode "The Chase" (had to look that up) that long ago, many primordial worlds of the Federation that were beginning to evolve life were "seeded" by an anciend race of spacefarers, so that their dying race would live on in various forms around the galaxy. This is as good an explanation as any... -- Arteitle 14:48, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Vegetarians or herbivores?
Would Vulcans be better described as herbivores rather than vegetarians? anthony (see warning)