Aginor
Vice Admiral
Here's another thread from me:
What do we know about the anatomy and other differences between the two genders of the Kilrathi?
IIRC we don't see many female Kilrathi. I think I remember two:
- Some painting or engraving seen in the intro video of Prophecy
- The Kilrathi priestess on Firekka
EDIT: There was a female in one of the Academy Episodes, too.
EDIT2: And I also like the one NinjaLA painted some time ago.
And here are some thoughts about it:
- There are hints that the female Kilrathi are much weaker (and maybe smaller) than the males, just like the human women. This theory is especially circumstantiated by the fact that we don't see any females that are warriors.
- We know that only females can be priests, though. So they seem to be of great religious importance. Why? Just a cult about females like we know of some stone-age cultures? (It came from the "mystery" of birth). Maybe that is the fact, because the Kilrathi culture looks very primitive in some things (although it isn't, prbably). At least they LOOK LIKE some kind of hunter-gatherer culture.
- Maybe the other females (those which are not priests) are just "birthing machines", like the females of some races in other sci-fi and fantasy-stories.
- Do Kilrathi marry? Do they mate for life? Is it the female who chooses or is it the male? Do they live monogamic or polygamic?
- Do the female Kilrathi raise the children? Or maybe they raise just the female children, and the males take the male ones with them as soon as they are able to live without their mothers?
What do we know about the anatomy and other differences between the two genders of the Kilrathi?
IIRC we don't see many female Kilrathi. I think I remember two:
- Some painting or engraving seen in the intro video of Prophecy
- The Kilrathi priestess on Firekka
EDIT: There was a female in one of the Academy Episodes, too.
EDIT2: And I also like the one NinjaLA painted some time ago.
And here are some thoughts about it:
- There are hints that the female Kilrathi are much weaker (and maybe smaller) than the males, just like the human women. This theory is especially circumstantiated by the fact that we don't see any females that are warriors.
- We know that only females can be priests, though. So they seem to be of great religious importance. Why? Just a cult about females like we know of some stone-age cultures? (It came from the "mystery" of birth). Maybe that is the fact, because the Kilrathi culture looks very primitive in some things (although it isn't, prbably). At least they LOOK LIKE some kind of hunter-gatherer culture.
- Maybe the other females (those which are not priests) are just "birthing machines", like the females of some races in other sci-fi and fantasy-stories.
- Do Kilrathi marry? Do they mate for life? Is it the female who chooses or is it the male? Do they live monogamic or polygamic?
- Do the female Kilrathi raise the children? Or maybe they raise just the female children, and the males take the male ones with them as soon as they are able to live without their mothers?