Talk: Species 8472

Firepower

Seven or eight bioships are able to combine their firepower, which creates enough destructive energy to destroy entire planets.

"And we fall back." ;-) -- Redge | Talk 16:51, 26 Aug 2004 (CEST)

Teaming Up?

The entry currently asserts, "Apparently, Species 8472 continue to make non-hostile patrols in the Milky Way Galaxy, possibly against the Borg, and are said to have teamed up with the Borg liberated from "Unimatrix Zero". (Unimatrix Zero, Part II)" I re-watched the (Unimatrix Zero, Part II) and there is no mention of Species 8472 teaming up with anyone. Is the citation to this episode incorrect? --<unsigned>

Here is the line in question:

AXUM: It turns out I'm on a scout ship patrolling the border of fluidic space, on the other side of the galaxy.

SEVEN: I was hoping we'd be able to meet one day, in the real world.

AXUM: Me too. There are things I can do where I am. I'll try to contact species 8472. See if I can persuade them to join the fight.

SEVEN: Given their history with the Borg I'm sure they'll be eager.

Given how it was said on the show, the line does need to be re-written, as it assumes that such a teaming up was succesful, and that 8472 was patrolling our galaxy, neither of which seem to be true.

The Borg continued to patrol a border between our galaxy and fluidic space. Axum suggested that he would try to make contact with Species 8472 after he was liberated from "Unimatrix Zero". (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part II")

How is that or a re-write? --OuroborosCobra ^talk 04:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Non-Canon Material?

I can find nothing anywhere else, and recall nothing from the 8472 episodes, to support the statement "their species is composed of five different sexes, each of which inhabit a different sector of fluidic space." If this is correct, can someone give it a citation? If not, remove it. Aholland 04:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

• The fact that 8472 has five sexes was given in "Someone to Watch Over Me"; unfortunately, the fact that all of the references are condensed at the end of the paragraph doesn't give much insight into where things come from. I don't recall anything about the different genders inhabiting different areas of fluidic space, but I haven't seen the episode in a few months. I'll try to check. -- SmokeDetector47^{( TALK )} 04:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• Yes, it is very canon that Species 8472 has, "atleast five sexes," as quoted from the doctor in "Someone to Watch Over Me". I think it needs to be readded that they have atleast 5 sexes, as that is what was stated on screen as canon evidence. -Tricit

Um... In this article it mentiones that the real threat was the only one the borg had seen in thousands of years... DUH the borg arn't that old of a species, remember VGER - or Voyager 2 spacecraft... where the borg came from... My 2 Cents

Yeah, that VGER/Borg link is entirely non-canon. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 00:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Star Trek Magazine #5

• http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php?title=Species_8472&diff=309756&oldid=307896 Someone should check this out, magazines are not canon, "official" or not, the info could, however, be used in the background. --Alan DelBeccio 11:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Binary Matrix?

I overheard Chakotay mentioning in episode Scorpion Part 1, that Species 8472's computer cores use a base-2 (binary) computer systems that we have. Is it possible that an organic construct like this (if it is like a brain) even needs a primitive binary system? Our brains use lots of neurotransmitters to convey information, and surely Species 8472 has very, very advanced technology, but I didn't expect that they would be this primitive, and use a base-2 (1,0) system. However, given that it is organic, perhaps signal travel faster and is more organised like in a bio-neural gel pack.

Smell?

Well, why does the presence of nostrils imply a sense of smell. Always remember: "Not all species have their testicles at the same place!" ;-)

Actually, the correct line is "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." ;) --From Andoria with Love 17:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Acually, that was just a guess. I only know the German version ;-) Breen 18:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Anatomy

"They have very little soft tissue, and much of their skeleton is exposed, particularly around their necks" Some problems:

1) "Very little" is a relative statement, meaningless without a point of reference.

2) How do they have "little soft tissue"? They seem to have muscles and organs and blood like any other life-form.

3) Assuming they have a skeleton, it is quite definitely not exposed.

--149.159.1.199 00:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)