They've been referred to, although from what I gather from the Trek Tech talk is that their, uh, ``canonicity'' is regarded as dubious, since one of the references was on the timeline-altered Enterprise from ``Yesterday's Enterprise'' and another was from that humiliating episode where some dumb Ferengis were able to capture the ship from our even dumber heroes, and Riker and LaForge and all tried to baffle their captors with confusing doubletalk.
Me, I'm fine supposing there are dolphin (and dolphins-from-outer-space) crew aboard; it makes the ship less of a humans- and humans-with-bumpy-foreheads club.
The Modern Trek era attitude towards animals is maybe more frustratingly confused than their attitude towards money and/or currency. I'm inclined to write off Riker's comment about ``enslaving animals for their meat'' to First Season Smug. Though it's hard to deny there doesn't seem like a lot of need for many meat animals once replicators are a proven technology. If nothing else some Gnu Public License-type would fairly quickly put out some ``open source'' ground beef patterns or whatever.
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They've been referred to, although from what I gather from the Trek Tech talk is that their, uh, ``canonicity'' is regarded as dubious, since one of the references was on the timeline-altered Enterprise from ``Yesterday's Enterprise'' and another was from that humiliating episode where some dumb Ferengis were able to capture the ship from our even dumber heroes, and Riker and LaForge and all tried to baffle their captors with confusing doubletalk.
Me, I'm fine supposing there are dolphin (and dolphins-from-outer-space) crew aboard; it makes the ship less of a humans- and humans-with-bumpy-foreheads club.
The Modern Trek era attitude towards animals is maybe more frustratingly confused than their attitude towards money and/or currency. I'm inclined to write off Riker's comment about ``enslaving animals for their meat'' to First Season Smug. Though it's hard to deny there doesn't seem like a lot of need for many meat animals once replicators are a proven technology. If nothing else some Gnu Public License-type would fairly quickly put out some ``open source'' ground beef patterns or whatever.