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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, Kes is like 4 years old then

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

More like 2, actually. 4 would have been the normal time for her race, but some electrical storm nonsense kicked it off early for her temporarily.

I dont think that episode is that weird overall. They wanted to address the reproductive cycle of a very short lived race and also have a "what does it mean to be a parent" moral lesson.

"Hold hands with me to breed" is some pretty mild sex talk honestly, especially for the "go fast and have lizard sex" writers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They seriously didn't think it through, though.

Apparently Ocampa females go into heat exactly once in their lives, and have a typical litter size of one? Each generation should be less than half the size of the one before it.