<snip> > Initially we > were thinking that the planet killer was created by the > Preservers. But > taking into account the relative age of the Borg, and the > estimated age of > the Preservers themselves, it is quite an impossibility that > it was created > by them. Especially when considering that the Preservers > either transcended > (a cliche that bothers me) or moved on to another Galaxy, OR > perhaps moved > on to extra-dimensional wanderings, hundreds of millions if > not billions of > years before the Borg even thought of those big nasty cubes.....
IIRC, The planet killer came from beyond this galaxy border, passing through the Great Barrier, did it not? <snip> Also, > the planet killer seems to be somewhat of a last ditch > effort, to create > something so powerful as to be impervious to the Borg and just about > anything else (it had a neutronium hull). > > One more thing about the planet killer. It wasn't a robot, > and it wasn't > sentient per se. Although it did have the collective > consciousness of the > species who created it embedded into the ship itself, it still needed > someone to "captain the ship" so to speak. > > As for my original thoughts in this thread, I have made a > descision. I would > pick the Jem'Hadar. Too many reasons to get into here, but > they far exceeded > the positive attributes of the other two candidates. If we limit the selections to Star Trek aliens, I would not have made the choice of Jem' Hadar, largely because in the show, they always seemed to lose, often because of their dependency to the "white" (is this correct?) or they were outsmarted. In the ST realm, there was the salt-sucking doppleganger, The Horta (my favorite), Khan's legion of supermen, the Borg (of course), Data and Lor, the lizardman Kirk fought (I think it was "Arena" episode or something like that), and many others... Moving to the SW realm, how about a million Jedi? Heinlein's world - Starship Troopers... Of course... Harry Harrison - Any citizen from Deathworld... I'll have to break out my Barlow's Guide for some more ideas.... Nerd From Hell > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/photos&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=ht > tp%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgm > arket%3den-ca > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
