Talk:Elachi

Symbol
If someone would be kind enough to dig around in the STO files and find the Elachi symbol, that would be much appreciated. I'd do it myself, but I have no idea where in that labyrinth to look. - Mitchz95 (talk) 02:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

The Elachi in TNG
Since this comes up again and again, the Elachi are obviously intended to be the same guys from TNG Schisms: - Atrayonis (talk) 08:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * the modus operandi on the Cardassian vessel encountered during the Romulan campaign is absolutely identical to what they did in Schisms, down to the portal graphics they abduct the sleeping Cardassians through
 * the Romulan prisoners in Installation 18 recall the exact same experiments they ran on Riker and co. in Schisms
 * they hide in subspace

Protecting the page for now until this is sorted out. - Mitchz95 (talk) 16:55, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

The differing: appearances, speech, and sub space survivability, (From MA: The solanogen-based lifeform was a humanoid species whose molecular structure is based on solanogen, a substance that is only stable in subspace. They originated from a tertiary subspace manifold, and could not survive unassisted in normal space.) However the Elachi can survive in normal space unassisted. It's simply a poor retcon. 86.186.199.206 12:36, 28 June 2013 (UTC)


 * A poor retcon, but a retcon nonetheless. And who knows, maybe there's some in-universe explanation we don't know about yet. There are always possibilities. - Mitchz95 (talk) 18:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)


 * If they don't care enough to think through such things in the first place they don't care enough to do so to explain them. Who knows maybe fans going out of their way to show the poor quality of the retcon might shame them to explain or correct it, (but I doubt it). Removing the TNG history link and emphasising the relevant sentence in the, "Notes" section is a good start/at least something. Also there's room in the Trekverse for two different species to have the same, "biological research" .M.O.. --86.179.141.177 21:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps the reason that it's the same species but now able to survive in our space is the fact that they are mutating native species into new Elachi. Therefore the original species is Solanagen based, but the enemies we face in the game are not as they are mutated normal space humanoids, this would account for why the two species (Solanagen-based and elachi) look different. (agreed though it was a poor retcon. It would've been better to create two enemy species). — Rayfire   21:47, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

It seems we were wrong. According to this dev post, they were never intended to be the same species. Go figure. - Mitchz95 (talk) 06:49, 27 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Now I wonder why they made such an effort to show similarities in game. Well, at least this issue has at last been laid to rest (even though I turned out to be wrong). - Atrayonis (talk) 08:23, 27 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Most likely they intended to for the two species to be the same in a lazy effort to seemingly include, (more like, "tack on") established canon in the game to ironically make it seem more thought out then it actually is. They'll probably try to wave away the similarities as the Elachi using similar technology. 86.151.128.223 12:42, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Gamma Vertis IV
I've removed the reference to Gamma Vertis IV. The Elachi in STO are very different from their depiction in. - Mitchz95 (talk) 19:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)