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[A l t e r E g o 9]

TALOSIANS

Talos IV has not been completely explored and the Stellar Fleet has furnished few newses to regard. The results of the contact with the inhabitants of this planet have classified. For order of the Secretariat of the Fleet, whoever enters contact with Talos IV for any reason, is passible of capital punishment.

The Talosians have strange power, and they are able to create illusions. They are dying out because they're so smart that they are bored silly. So they started a particular "zoo" where they have various races that they are studying to find a race able to succeed them after their dead.

First contact with Talosian was made by Captain Christopher Pike, his first officer Number One, and science officer Spock, They respond to a distress call on Talos IV, where they find the remaining crew of an earlier Earth exploration (on the USS Columbia) which crashed on the planet. The colonists are all aging (male) scientists except for Vina, who is a cute, blonde who was born around the time they crashed (about 18 years back). Pike refuses to live out any fantasies that the Talosians want him to (especially mating fantasies), so the Thalosians bring down Number One and another woman from the Enterprise. Second contact takes place 31 years after the USS Columbia crashed, which is 13 years after the crew of cpt. Pike visits the planet.

Other infos about the planet Talos IV

Native Name: Clesik

Name of the system: Talos

Position in the system: 4

Class: M

Gravity: 0,89 g

Diameter: 19.200 Km

Equatorial circumference: 60.000 Km

Total surface: 665.000.000 Km²

Percentage lands emerged: 90%

Surface lands emerged: 595.500.000 Km²

Length of the day: 29 hours

Atmosphere: Light

Middle climate: Moderate cold

Form of dominant life: Talosian

Referring episodes : The Cage, The Managerie Part I, The Managerie Part II

[DrWho42 13]

That was a nice list of facts, AE <_<

 

How come we haven't heard from the Talosian in later Trek? (not including ENT obviously, although we can see them if we find some ways around creating discontinuity..)

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[VaBeachGuy 12]

We haven't heard of them after TOS because there was a Death Penalty imposed on anyone that might visit their planet. Spock was spared this punishment in The Menagerie but nothing has ever been said of it being lifted completely.

[DrWho42 13]

We haven't heard of them after TOS because there was a Death Penalty imposed on anyone that might visit their planet. Spock was spared this punishment in The Menagerie but nothing has ever been said of it being lifted completely.

Ah, I remember now....

General Order 7

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[TransporterMalfunction 1]

Great post AE, a good read.

[mj 7]

Whenever we look back at old episodes of TOS, there is more evidence of how well it was done. In looking at the Talosians, there is no feature as striking as their huge heads with thick veins. Their clothes are plain and mask any other features they might have had. They had put all their eggs in one basket ( developing their minds) and there was nothing else to them. They did not apply any "creativity" to their underground environment...it was as bare as the surface above---no interior decorators among the Talosians! The looked alike...they were no evidence of individuality. It was a listless society of intellects. No wonder they were so fascinated by a vibrant, intelligent man like Christopher Pike! The lively, diverse, creative, independent, adventurous humans were a stark contrast to the Talosians.

[Valeris 2]

Good read. That is probably also why they were confused when Pike did not want to stay with them, mj. They over-intellectualized the situation and did not realize the human need for the spontaneous and unexpected.