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| Dr. Noah's (tenative) Xindi/TCW theory | |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 11 2005, 10:45 AM Post #1 |
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Sistertrek's Asian Correspondant
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Are you guys ready for this? OK, here it goes. I am operating under the assumption that the Romulans of the 24th Century are behind the arming and alteration of the Suliban in an effort to destroy the Federation before it begins. The so-called "Future Guy" (for the love of Pete, couldn't they at least give him a name so we don't have to have such a stupid name to reference the character?) is the head of the Tal Shiar sometime I think in the late 24th Century. The Tal Shiar is using time travel to give information to the Suliban about how to alter themselves genetically and also how to build advanced technology like cloaking devices. It has been noted that cloaking devices were not truly discovered by the Federation until the 2260s when the orignial Enterprise encountered a Romulan Bird of Prey in Balance of Terror (TOS). So the Romulans have actually altered the timeline and presumably gave themselves and the Klingons this technology well before the 23rd Century. However, they soon realize that the Suliban are just not up to the task, they constantly fail in their efforts, and seem unable to adapt to the new power they possess, they need contant guidance. The Romulans decide to not only give information to their own people (explaining the hi-Romulan tech in the 4th season) but also decide to create a master plan of an alliance of aliens to destroy the Federation. In The Expanse, the Xindi weapon strikes earth as a test. I presume it was trying to find a certain quantum frequency or some other technobabble explanation for the right setting to actually destroy the Earth as we saw in Twilight. Now it is said that the component on the ship is quantum dated -420 meaning it came from the 26th century, but it also could have been from the 24th century brought back to the 18th century to integrate the technology into the budding Xindi Conglomerate. As far as the race of Xindi go, and I'll admit, this is a bit out there, but what if the Romulans were able to isolate the DNA sequence that was seeded on all those planets before any of the humanoid races evolved by the aliens in the Chase. What if they are able to go back millions of years to when the Xindi planet was in it's infancy and figure out a way to use this DNA fragment to evolve several different types of humanoid sentient species on the same planet? What would the purpose of this be you ask? If there are all these different aliens all on the same planet, their level of conflict must be high due to general xenophobia. Much like Europe in the Middle Ages, the proximity of so many rival factions and the state of near constant war created the need to make better and better weapons and countermeasures. Thus, the different Xindi races all advanced their technology relatively quickly, but also since they think in different ways have certain advantages and divergent technologies that can later be integrated as part of a whole. Not to mention their different ways of thinking would have tactical advantages as well. Imagine now the Romulans check up on the progress of these aliens every few hundred years, which to them, would be like checking the growth of bacteria in a petri dish every few days as much as time matters to them. They would be able to introduce technology to each race, and ultimately help them to work together in an alliance to destroy the Federation. All this was done in the Expanse because of the fact that few people would travel there under the frightening conditions. The Romulans probably also performed a bit of scare tactics themselves like the story about the Klingons being turned inside out and still alive to make sure they were not disturbed while creating thier master plan. Any thoughts? |
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 11 2005, 10:53 AM Post #2 |
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The only thing I can't figure out is why "Future Guy" would've warned them about the Xindi in "The Expanse". I think perhaps it was a way to lure Archer and Enterprise into the Expanse to kill them so they'd be out of the way for the final blow, destroying Earth. Now keep in mind, most of the Xindi conflict I totally missed, so I will continue to amend this theory when I get season 3 and 4. |
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| Sophie | Aug 11 2005, 11:18 AM Post #3 |
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Hmm.....
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| Dr. Noah | Aug 11 2005, 12:29 PM Post #4 |
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I had stated this previously, but to make it complete, I put the Romulans as the responsible party because the Federation can travel through time at will. In First Contact, the deflector emitted the same particles and the Borg sphere and poof! They're back where they came from. They didn't even have to slingshot around the sun. The Romulans have even higher technology than the Federation. They invented the cloaking device, the Romulan Warbird is actually powered by a quantum singularity. Technology beyond that of the Federation. We can only assume that if the Federation is capable of time travel even in a limited way, that the Romulans are as well, and may even be more advanced than the Federation in the 24th century in that field. It's also the modus operandi of the Romulan Empire to use other races as thier cannon fodder against the Federation. They used the Klingons in the 23rd Century, they used the Remans in the Dominion War, it only makes sense that they would arm and inform a race in the past to do thier bidding for them. Anyone have anything to add? Anyone have anything to say about this? Anyone? Anyone? |
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| Ngagh | Aug 11 2005, 04:25 PM Post #5 |
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Huh?
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Genius! Pure genius! Okay, I'll stop stroking your ego now.
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| Simon | Aug 11 2005, 04:25 PM Post #6 |
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Nice theory. Only problem being here, in that Future Guy is clearly said to have been from the 28th Century in one or more of the TCW episodes. |
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| Sophie | Aug 12 2005, 01:18 AM Post #7 |
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Keeper of the spider-cats
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he might have lied.
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| captain_proton_au | Aug 12 2005, 03:55 AM Post #8 |
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I'd thought of the Romulans before, the only trouble with that line of thought is that the Romulans would have known they needed the Federation intact to ward off the Dominion, or the Borg for that matter. I doubt Future guy was from an alpha /beta quad species or a Federation species |
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| Simon | Aug 12 2005, 12:13 PM Post #9 |
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But if the Federation didn't exist, would anyone have bothered going to the Gamma Quadrant in the first place to encounter the Dominion? Would the wormhole even have been found? The finding of the wormhole seemed to have been a temporal paradox...Sisko existed for the sole reason of encountering the Prophets. If the Federation didn't exist, it's argueable this wouldn't have happened... |
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