Devidians: Lore Index
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Devidians are antagonists of Star Trek TNG that appear in Time's Arrow as spectral ghosts that are capable of time travel and have a fondness for human neural energies. They also feature heavily in some Star Trek books, so let's take a look.
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"Feeding off on entire timelines"
Weeping Angels: 👀
After seeing Rick’s post on the Devidians, I had the thought that may be they are Iconian’s after the Heart was stolen who genetically altered themselves and either forgot or don’t care about their origins, or were an Iconian Servitor race that once the Iconians changed (as per Star Trek online) to non-corporeal beings, went their own way. Might be fun to play that idea out.
I will never understand how Star Trek writers think you can have an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere on a barren planet. It's the very basics of planetary science, you don't get free oxygen in an atmosphere, certainly not enough to breathe, without something constantly producing it, so far as we know, only plant life can do that.
I've never once heard a Star Trek character remark "I wonder where the oxygen is coming from" on such a world...
I guess the implication is that there used to be plant life, but it died out for one reason or another. The oxygen remained, just there wasn't any new oxygen being created. Maybe without anything making CO2, plants ran out of stuff to breath and died?
@@japzoneThe problem there is that oxygen doesn't just sit around. It is extremely reactive, and quickly bonds with damn near everything. Hence, oxidation. Unless you have an active supply replenishing it as quickly as it bonds with the elements in the soil, it will completely transform into oxides, leaving no free O2 to breathe. Finding an oxygen-rich atmosphere is pretty much proof of life, or the products of life. We don't really see O2 being produced at scale any other way.
@@japzone oxygen loves to bond with most anything. iron rich rocks rust, as does copper ore, for examples. if the plants were dead long enough for there to be no life left on the surface at all, nor organic sludge from decomposition, the oxygen wouldve by then long since bonded with everything to the point of atmospheric irrelevance
@@marsar1775 fair
Almost like… non of this was ever really scientific like Trekkies erroneously presumed.
Right off the bat, a dark industrial corridor.
Good old ghost
ahh the coda books, awful awful ending to the treklit universe
Absolutely agree with you...I feel like I wasted all that time and money supporting the post-show verse only to have it all trashed.
fun video, but the flashing from the textures glitching a distracting.
Very glowie humanoids
One of my favourites.
I liked how they immediately refused Picard’s diplomacy, so then he went “I’ll let Worf blow them up”.
I always wondered if the alien(s?) seen in Timescape (in Romulan disguise) were these guys, too.
Calm down Crusher is the funniest thing I’ve heard today
Branch Devidians?
Happy to see a new culture index especially one about ghosties
Hope we get one on the Hur'q
Do you really want to Hur'q me? do you really want to make french fries? bom bom bom bom.....
I hoped in the upcoming Star Trek shows, the Devidians would be mention again, especially in any Temporal Wars references.
If the Devidians want to go after the Kelvin and NuTrek timeline, by all means, please do ❤️
Norwich "only one woman there" energy
Will there be more Star Trek online videos in the future? I hope so
The next episode of the current arc is coming soon. Just not sure exactly when, but Sela will be a part of it.
Devidians always somehow made me think of that lunatic David Koresh and his brand lf cultists called Davidians.
Now that you explain it like that, I see some parallels with the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. Another of my favorite creepy aliens.
Next video should be on their offshoot, the Branch Devidians.
Ive been looking for videos and information on these creatures for years, its difficult to find any information on them, thank you Rick
I was sad when I couldn’t find an index on them a few months ago. This came at the perfect time…….. get out of my walls
Hi
With their abilities, better hope they never get assimilated by the Borg....
I wish the devidians would get their way with the kelvin timeline.
I love the Times Arrow episodes alot. But a thought just occurred to me. Since they can change thier physical appearance. Why not go onto a Borg Cube where there are thousands of Borg to collect there energy. The dividians are probably somewhat simular to species 8472 and might be impossible to assimilate
Nah...
I wonder if the Devidian's would have played a role in the Temporal Wars. Their motives don't seem to be big galactic altering changes (e.g. wipe out the Federation) but even so I wonder if factions like the Temporal Agents and Federation Timeships would permit their time hopping buffets of neural energy
It's almost like they figured out how to hide from time agents like in the Loki series, quite simply by only interfering with timelines of people who are going to die anyway because of some calamity or branched timeline collapsing. Since nothing changes, no time agents show up to fix anything.
@@FasutonemuMyoji Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way. In universe that could mean the Devidians in TNG are aware of the Time Agents seen in VOY and ENT so are being very selective when it comes to time travel feeding
"They have five fingers and six toes".... so they're from Norwich then?
Ah, Norwich. The place where a man introduces you to his sister and wife, then you realise there's only one woman standing there.
Devideans : COYB!
Sounds like you might be from some weird place Not located within the bootiful county of Norfolk 🤔 🤣🤣
Pretty eerie creatures
Sounds to me like they're doing a service, like carrion eaters, molds, etc., as long as they stay off the main timeline & only trim the hedges neatly. 😉
Uh, huh. Go ahead and argue in the parasite's favor...🙄
@@charlestaylor253 Lol the way he described it sounded so similar to the premise for the Loki series that my viewpoint phase shifted. 😉
I was horrified when I saw those episodes tho'... lampreys & leeches, yuk! 🤢 Thanks for the laugh 🖖
I've always felt that the Devidians are Doctor Who monsters of the week who somehow found their way into the Star Trek universe. Great video!
So, you did a chapter of STO with them featured?
My Rom Tac officer is close to that story arc
Not to be confused with the davidians who are normally down the pub
Given that they feed off of the branching timelines could we refer to them as... Branch Devidians?
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@@shagnastyfo20 Ooooh that was sadly funny 😮😮🤣🤣
Almost mistook this as documentary of the ATF mass murder in Waco, TX
Specters was the first and remains STO’s best story arc. I replay it at least once a year.
A shame they made it harder to play.
@@emporer15 What do you mean by that?
@@Shapes_Quality_Control They changed it to a side mission and made the minimum level 65. Made a new character for Delta last week, wanted to replay this arc, and level 61 still isn't high enough to get it.
@@emporer15 It shouldn’t be that difficult to reach 65 at this point, especially on a Delta recruit.
@@Shapes_Quality_Control Yes but it's the idea they changed such a classic mission.
I wonder what the Sheliak would think about the Devidians?
Devidians will be the type of enigmatic yet ominous species I've ever come across, multiverse and all. they even rival the Iconians
Zoomers have ruined language
Do some culture indexes
Don't think that's possible...
Devidians: like the Wraith, but invisible...😮
Similar to the Branch Davidians ? LOL
Very bullshit, very don't like.
i hope STO does more with them they have kinda vanished.
I like to think that the alien in ST Voyager's episode Coda is a Devidian. He tries to get Janeway to go with him, making it appear she is dead. He mentions that he wants her in his matrix where he will feed on her.
I think that people might reject this retcon as being part of the "small universe" tendencies we find lazy writers indulging in, if it isn't handled properly. I think that it could work if the connection is only hinted at and never actually confirmed. The writers would need to provide almost the same the amount of evidence for the proposition as they provide for a negation of the premise. This way, both groups get exactly what they want to believe out of the story, and the gatekeepers can't act all butthurt about their favorite show doing a thing that they didn't personally think was the greatest thing ever.
This could also be a possibility for the aliens featured in Non-Sequitur.
Have the Borg ever assimilated any Devidians ?
I hear that at some point in the past the Davidians… branched out.
Hey buddy, love your vids, but your last few vids, including this one, are hard to listen to especially with earbuds. Not sure if your filter broke or missing but your speech, specifically on words with an S in them, peak very sharp and REALLY loud. It's very unpleasant, more so with any volume. Keep up the great vids, but please fix the spikes.
they destroyed the star trek universe
they are demons
Algorithm comment
Three more words needed, I heard that the algorithm ignores less then five words
What game?
"They have five fingers and six toes"
So, Mandy Patinkin is going to hunt them down for murdering his father?
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Sounds similar to the weeping angels
Cool, just...cool. Thank you.
I really do love these videos.
Great stuff as always!
What game were you playing?
He was showing clips from Star Trek Online, an MMO that he also did a full series on.
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Really?
0.0004 seconds….?
It’s getting a bit silly…is it not?
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It's... it's sci-fi. Silly techno-babel is parr for the course. Besides, phase-shifting is a well worn trope, and is routinely shown to be achievable with very minute variances. It's how The Flash is able to become effectively intangible by vibrating slightly out of phase with matter in order to pass through solid walls. It's the same concept with a slightly different effect.
It's also a major plot point, because the variance required such precision that only Data could accompmish the task. Have you seen the TNG episode?
Consider also that this was back in 1992. The ".0004 seconds" was part of the season 5 TNG episode "Time's Arrow".
Brench Devidians? Didn't they all get bernt by the FBE?