Talk:Taelon

For an August 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Taelons

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Taelons.com

A brief dig through whois shows that both the official efc.com and taelons.com are owned by Chicago Tribune (Tribune Entertainment Company) in Chicago, IL. Naturally taelons.com is a promotional vehicle, not a real website run by actual aliens (frankly, you'd think actual aliens would have a much better website than that). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:51, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Castes

I'm not sure if I misheard or not, but in episode 14 of season 1, Rho-ha (I think) mentioned that Da'an suits his caste (of a diplomat) well. So, either I really did mishear it, or there's some information missing from the article, or that part of Taelon society was never re-visited in the series in greater depth. --M.A. 22:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'm pretty sure of it now. Boone expanded that in the same episode by saying: "Taelons divide themselves to functional castes. They have bureocrats, diplomats, scientists, artists,...". --M.A.

Yes, the references are correct. Also correct is that the idea was not much developed - some individuals were shown as "scientists", for example, but not explicated as being members of a caste. Early episodes may have used caste as a guide to "uniform" color, but this is supposition. Voideater 22:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Free Will vs. the Commonality

It is not clear if the various statements that individual Taelons cannot act against the Commonality (the combined majority rule of the Taelon consciousness) is literal or more a moral imperative. If literal, then every action taken by any Taelon is explicitly the will of the majority of the Taelons. It seems more in keeping with the show's early season explorations to view the statement as more an ethical burden than a literal restriction, similar to the statement that, "Vulcans cannot lie" - a generalism born from deep cultural and perhaps biologic imperatives, but not a statement of fact in all cases. Voideater 23:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Da'an.jpg

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BetacommandBot 07:51, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Da'an.jpg

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BetacommandBot 10:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Taelon.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

official website

I am going to remove the link on the article page to the official website since it has been down since early march and as such is leading to a blank page, if the page returns feel free to put it back on but for now I don't see any reason for it to be there. Doctoroxenbriery (talk) 02:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Poorly written

This is a pretty poorly written article. It makes bizarre unsubstantiated suppositions, is generally poorly written, and feels far more like a fan site than an encyclopedia entry. I'm not familiar enough with the show to do so, but I would suggest a nearly complete rewrite (seems like the show was popular enough to warrant a good page, but maybe I'm wrong). The section about technology was particularly difficult to read (paraphrased: "they claim their technology is millions of years ahead of us. That's unlikely. Although they were definitely a space faring race two million years ago. But if that were true, we'd have more trouble reverse engineering the stuff." Says who? You? That's not objective in the slightest). But, I'm never going to read the page again, so I really don't care. 207.154.101.184 (talk) 09:08, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

You're right, the page is crap. Unfortunately, we don't have enough sources that discuss taelons to make a decent article out of it. I really wish we did. If you can find some, then by all means please add them. The Wordsmith^Communicate 14:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)