Saturday, June 09, 2007

Dinosauroids revisited

interesting tag Reading today's online news I came across a link to Dinosauroids revisited by Darren Naish from 2006. The post discusses the possible outcome of an alternate evolution of a saurian race (i.e. of dinosaur origin), called "the troodontids (known at the time as saurornithoidids)".

The pictures in the blogpost are very interesting, and the entire post is also interesting, especially as a Star Trek fan.

In Star Trek: Voyager season 3 episode 23 called "Distant Origin", such a possibility is also reviewed. In this episode the crew of Voyager are being watched by a race who's origin is of the Earth. It is soon clear to both sides that the Saurians are descendants of the Dinosaurs, and survived on a piece of land that was detached by an asteroid hitting the Earth some 65 million years ago.

It would be interesting to find out whether the writers of the episode were aware of the publications described in Darren's post, and got the ideas from there. Either way, it is always nice to find out facts and ideas behind or relating to Star Trek episodes.

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