Timeline for How come all the species reached technological age and warp drive at the same time?
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| Mar 5, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | As shown in the Voyager episode Distant Origin, some dinosaurs evolved into intelligent humanoids over 65 million years ago. I don't know if there's any support in canon, but I would speculate that most intelligent beings who achieved advanced technology eventually transcended our dimension somehow and became beings more like the Q or the Founders, and that's why there are so few seen that have had warp for more than a few thousand years before humanity. | |
| Nov 23, 2012 at 5:04 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Junuxx Resistance to intelligence would obviously affect intelligence development rate. By development, I meant that too. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 19:34 | comment | added | Junuxx | With slightly different circumstances I think it could have taken much longer or shorter even on Earth. And "intelligence development" rate must also be driven by environmental factors, it can't just be hardwired, otherwise it wouldn't be evolution. Just that there was some genetic seeding explains physiological similarities, but it doesn't even start to explain why humans and the other races are all so close together technologically. (2/2) | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 19:34 | comment | added | Junuxx | Yes, hundreds of years of technological difference after millions of years of evolutionary divergence. Some planets experienced meteorite impacts or ice ages during that time and others didn't. Humanity itself started on the path towards agriculture and then advanced civilization after the end of the last ice age ~10k years ago, but we haven't really changed anatomically for over 200k years. (1/2) | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 18:33 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Junuxx No. Local conditions & resources are matter, that's why there're differences of hundreds or thousands years in warp development. High resistance to intelligence means slower development rate & low resistance to intelligence means faster development rate. By chance, resistances weren't also with high margin to make a species million year ahead. But, intelligence development rate is the main key & answer to the question.. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 17:15 | comment | added | Junuxx | So you're saying that the common ancestor of the alpha quadrant races evolved at a constant speed everywhere, regardless of local conditions and resources? | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 15:56 | history | answered | Doctor Doom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |