starforgedsteelreplied to your post“Someone explain Narn pregnancy to me”I’m pretty sure the females carry the baby to term and then the males carry them around in their pouches?? Apparently the Babylon 5 magazine that came out way back when has more info? I think??But no species would actually evolve like that, that’s ridiculously impractical.
I think of it like some kind of fucked up hybrid of kangaroos and seahorses.
oh, I didn’t know (or forgot?). So Narns and Tenctonese are the same species after all. Tenctonese are from “Alien Nation” and I can’t recommend it enough especially if you like Narns. So Tenctonese have exactly the same thing. It’s ironic that Tenctonese also have the cogenitors whom you can remember from one of Star Trek Enterprise episode. The universe of sci-fi scriptwriters are very small place :)
Dude, I immediately thought of the Tenctonese when G’Kar started going on about pouches! Though I feel like the Tenctonese had kind of two deliveries? George straight up gives birth from the pouch after Susan gives a weird kind of birth to the mess of strings and stuff that wasn’t even person-shaped yet that she passes on to him. I thought it was a little odd that he had to go through some kind of labor when it was a pouch? Like I was just trying to figure out what muscles were even involved? I know ‘aliens’, but I’m always like ‘this makes no evolutionary sense? Help me with this?’ Because then he never uses said pouch again, rather than holding onto a developing or nursing child with it which was the impression I got about Narns. We get a lot more information about Tenctonese reproduction, though. Maybe they are largely the same, but I imagined Narn more marsupial, with babies that can spend time inside and outside pouches for a while after they’ve finished being little fetal rat monsters. Mostly because that’s a use of a pouch that makes sense to me, I guess.
I think I’d like to get all the hints and mentions of Narn reproduction from the show together and see what can be pieced together. I know there’s stuff I’ve forgotten from the earlier seasons.
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