tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 18 13:01:12 1995
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young Klingons
- From: Anthony Curran <[email protected]>
- Subject: young Klingons
- Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 15:02:14 -0500
>ghItlh qo'ran:
<...SnIp...>
>>The counter argument to this is that animals that are provided
>>with a great deal of parental care are born less developed, and
>>take longer to reach maturity. It is in the young animal's
>>best
>>interest to develop at the expense of the parent, being fed and
>>protected from predation, than to develop quickly and face
>>these
>>necessities on it's own.
>>If Klingons actually do develop quickly, this would indicate
>>that
>>(at some point in their recent evolutionary history) they were
>>preyed upon frequently as young, and that the level of parental
>>care is less that that displayed by Humans.
>Yeah, but then there's that pesky time dialation effect from all
>that Warp travel. If Alexander was raised planet side while W &
>K were warping around, that could account for his "rapid"
>growth. I don't recall if
>"stardate" time is absolute or relativistic.
>Soqra'tIS [email protected]
According to the ST:TNG Technical Manual, there are no time
dilation effects associated with warp travel. It is only impulse
travel at high percentages of c that causes such relativistic
effects.
qo'ran