On last night’s episode of ENTERPRISE, they go to a planet that has a special Vulcan meditation center which is thousands of years old. Here the peaceful monks contemplate whatever and treasure their ancient relics in underground catacombs. However, the nearby Andorran feeler-waving, blue skinned humanoids are suspicious. They are also irascible, unpredictable, and not too smart. The captain of the Enterprise is continually beaten by them yet he helps them in the end and attains the morally superior position, at least in today’s sense of morals, which prescribe that we all must understand annoyingly irritable, pouting, ignorant people as all part of “cultural variety,” but that’s another thread. The questions are, 1) How did they make the antennae on the heads of these miserable Andorrans move, and 2) Since we have evolved from the ancient times, we retain vestiges (eg. the vermiform appendix, the gill-like structures when we are little baby embryos, the optical tissue in the pineal gland) of earlier features, so are there any little places or spots on our skulls or brains that are all we have left of when “we” had insect feelers?
Well, I’d hardly call them stupid. They knew the Vulcan listening base was there, after all.
I assume they used some sort of marionette arrangement for the antennae. Or at least, that’s what it looked like.
Jeffrey Combs said they were radio controlled, with someone else operating them.
Here’s a link:
Spoiler warning, slortar?
I just figured they got real Andorians to play the parts. ^:)^
–Cliffy
Doh! Sorry about that, guys. Pretending I was lying. ^:D^
Um, “pretending” is Vulcan for “pretend.”
Uh, “we” are not descended from insects, so I doubt there are any vestigal feelers.
Oh, and my vote on how they moved is by digital manipulation.
You’ll go blind.
If I recall high school biology correctly, the most recent common ancestor of humans and insects was not only before antennae, but before heads. Insect antennae are more closely related to insect legs, which are also unrelated to human legs. They’re also unrelated to, say, fish whiskers (closest thing I can think of to antennae in vertabrates).
The common ancestor would most likely have been some sort of a wormy thing (I’d guess an annelid), but then, IANAB.
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
–Cliffy
Enterprise plays on sunday here in Montreal so dang I shoulda stopped reading. Oh well to late.
BTW are these the same blue guys with antennai from the original series?
Has anyone seen the thread on Andorra. Are these aliens from Spain. How the heck do you paste a thread??
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"BTW are these the same blue guys with antennai from the original series?"
Yes.
"Are these aliens from Spain."
Actually, they’re Andorians. And they’re from Andoria.
"How the heck do you paste a thread??"
Like this:
[url=“showthread.php?threadid=96509”]Enterprise: The Andorian Incident (warning, slight spoiler)[/url]
will produce:
Enterprise: The Andorian Incident (warning, slight spoiler)
Yes.
Trek has been heavily associated with the Penninsular countries since Ricardo Montalban did his commercials praising “fine Cordobian leather.”.
Oh, Andoria.
Thnks Achernar for the url tip.
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Wasn’t it “fine Corinthian leather”
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No, no, no. Montalban is a tough guy, and isn’t into “Delenda est Carthago” and all that sissy stuff.
Corinth is in Greece. Cordoba is a provence or a whatchamacallit of Spain.
…but I know Corinthian leather when I feel it!
Oedipus was also one on of those Greek weenies.
You watch your ass.