Just wanted to say thanks to @Kailea for his little shindig on K-13 this afternoon. Mrs. Trick (@raetb32) and I had a great time, even if her fun didn't really start until halfway through, when I finally told her how to join the fleet chat.

I still don't know how Santa Kailea managed to carry all those gifts. That guy must have the biggest sack in the fleet.

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Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I googled EMSSG because I didnt recognize the acronym. In the image search I found a rather lovely set of towels, which would make an excellent gift. Also this thread showed up which was a bit weird at first glance. XD

Vary green towels... The acronym is my own creation lol emergency measure Secret Santa gift 

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Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I googled EMSSG because I didnt recognize the acronym. In the image search I found a rather lovely set of towels, which would make an excellent gift. Also this thread showed up which was a bit weird at first glance. XD

So, I have a lot of down-time at work and I have been spending it watching fan-made Star Trek episodes at work.

So far I've watched Star Trek Continues and Star Trek New Voyages/Phase 2 -- both of which I thought were, overall, really well done.

I was wondering what you all thought about these projects and if there's any other series that you might recommend!

I think, and obviously this isn't canonical, but the Romulans likely do have some dormant psychic capabilities. Remember that in the era of Enterprise, the Vulcans thought psychic abilities were a rare mutation and were heavily discriminating against those who showed those capabilities. Later, we discovered that the Vulcan government was being influenced by Romulans at the highest levels, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to assume that those prejudices exist in Romulan society even today. So Romulans who are more psychic are still probably going to keep those abilities to themselves, and the less aggressively psychic ones probably don't even know they have those dormant abilities.

That's just my personal theory, and I think that it also explains the limited telepathy racial trait in STO.

My #secretsanta gift shipped today and should arrive to its recipient before Christmas. I hope they like it. :)

Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I shipped out my #SecretSanta gift to my giftee today!  Should arrive just in time for Christmas!

!!! that 8bit art is amazing , @Balduranne thats a awesome bonus gift as I know how much work goes into it. it looks stunning

ooooo Fith! id love that. all the way to Australia Trick. I saw the warp cores a while ago and wanted one!

y'all so lucky!

My wonderful awesome Secret Santa gift has arrived!

Thank you @trick

A HUGE thank you to Anna (@Balduranne) for the AMAZING Secret Santa gift!  My toon and ship in your pixel art is amazing - I'll be using it as my forum signature from now on!  The Steam gift card is an added bonus and will definitely go straight to another "Dead by Daylight" expansion, because I'm totally not addicted to the game or anything!  Much love, thank you so much for the amazing gifts :D

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What do you guys think? How did Romulans lose their psychic abilities? And are Romulans and Vulcans separate species? 

I dunno about speciation since the usual biological definition means "cannot interbreed to produce fertile offspring." We don't know about the Human-Vulcan hybrid Spock since he didn't marry or have any known children. However, this definition would indicate that Humans and Klingons aren't a separate species (as we now define the term) because K'Ehleyr, the half-Human half-Klingon mother of Alexander Rozhenko, was clearly fertile. The same goes for B'ellana Torres and her daughter Miral Paris; neither could have been anyone's mother if not. Vulcans and Romulans descended from a common ancestor so they would presumably be closer physiologically than any Human-Klingon pairing. So...let's just back away from that whole topic and wave it away with space magic time travel whatever blah. :P As for the loss of telepathy, let's try to retcon it.

*Ahem*

During the early alliance with the Klingons, the Romulan Star Empire got its hands on not only Klingon ships, but it had the Tal Shiar extract Klingon research as well. This included data on the Augment virus, which the Tal Shiar immediately began testing. Due to the differences in physiology, the virus created cranial ridges in Romulans where it destroyed them in Klingons, and the virus' genetic damage caused only minor behavioral differences but did erase the limited telepathy that Romulans had possessed. Unfortunately, the Tal Shiar's quarantine protocols were inadequate and the virus swept through the population, being much more aggressively contagious than it had been for the Klingons. This pandemic caused the Romulans in 2311 to retreat into isolation behind the Neutral Zone until encountering Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise-D on Stardate 41986.0, when their now-permanent appearance change became known to the outside for the first time.

Or not. But hey, it's as plausible as any of the other retconning that happens in Trek...

The tracking on mine says it was left on the porch two days ago, I'm starting to get concerned.  D:

UPDATE: It's all good. :)

Well, in the game Romulans have the Limited Telepathy trait, so there's that

Mine has been sent out, hope its ok

So, I asked that question in the game today. We had a very lively discussion about the topic. Memory alpha and beta tell us that Romulans were telepathic but they aren't right now. I watched just about every single Star Trek episode, except discovery, and I have never seen any psychic abilities in Romulans.

I guess the first question is really are Romulans a different species then Vulcans? In the episodes gambit, part one and two Picard and the Enterprise crew find the stone of gol which is a psionic resonator that focuses telepathic energy. The resonator was used before the Romulans and Vulcans split and before the time of awakening when Vulcans didn't control their emotions like they do today. Vulcans and the Romulans act differently but are they different species?

Memory alpha lists various conflicting explanations for why Romulans are no longer telepathic. We discussed those reasons and others but didn't come up with a good explanation. Some people thought the gene might have become dormant and/or died out. Some thought that the Romulans who left didn't have the telepathic gene at all. Even others thought it had something to do with Pon Farr. It was suggested that the act of Pon Farr might turn on the gene or create the pathways for telepathy. Since Romulans don't have Pon Far or express it differently telepathy isn't activated in their children.

What do you guys think? How did Romulans lose their psychic abilities? And are Romulans and Vulcans separate species? 

Memory Alpha on Romulans: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Romulan
Memory alpha Gambit episodes: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Gambit,_Part_I_(episode) http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Gambit,_Part_II_(episode)

Oooo, lucky!!

aaaah! Look what I got in the post today! Thank you santa :) it's sooo cool. Also gives me a figure 

aweee thats so cool @nycblkboy ! a cool gift to have fun with.

Now whos going to untangle all them fairy lights!

when you mentioned reindeer, i thought u meant he got you the one with poop in it