Just your #caturday reminder that #StarTrek is the franchise that understands and appreciates #cats - even when they’re at their least adorable.
Not to mention there are diverse and credible #feliniod species to entertain the #felines in your household.
Are your cat family members seeing themselves in your #television viewing?
T’Ana is really showing that #Caitians aren’t really that many generations away from their less scientific #Kzinti cousins (at least as #Niven and others have it).
Or perhaps she’s of Caitian-Kzinti bi-species heritage, somewhat like a Vulcan with a late 22nd century Romulan grandparent.
Would love to find out that T’Ana’s loss of her tail wasn’t entirely accidental, rather a way to lose a Kzin hairless tail
If we go with #Caitians & #Kzinti, like Vulcans-Romulans, being one species in origin - as put forward in B-canon #WorldsOfTheFederation & confirmed by #Niven himself in #PlaygroundsOfTheMind - then it’s not at all surprising that the more scientifically minded Caitians shared their Kzinti cousins willingness to consume other sentient species.
#LarryNiven wrote that he put #Kzin into #StarTrekTAS to see what other writers would do with them in the #StarTrek universe.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░
AlsoPaisleyCat 🇨🇦