Talk:Yridian

Homeworld/Allied?

In "Melora", a Yridian is buying back 42 or 50 rings of (some person's name here, a yridian) that are some ancient relics to his people. And he says his "homeworld thanks him" or something. Just wondering if anyone has the episode on DVD if they can look this up or something. As far as they showed, I don't think the rings get to Yridia (?), as the Yridian is shot by Fallit Kot. -AJHalliwell 02:18, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I created the Paltriss and Rings of Paltriss pages. A note should be added to the Yridian article about the Yridian homeworld being mentioned in "Melora". We also never saw if Ashrock survived the shooting. -- Rebel Strike 17:08, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Ashrock was never referred to as a Yridian in the script, but is pretty clear that he is. -- Rebel Strike 21:47, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"Hollow Men" calls the planet Yridia, but was it the Star Trek: Star Charts that named it? Tough Little Ship 10:29, 1 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Thumbs

• In the TNG Birthright episodes the Yridian lacked thumbs, does this hold for other Yridian's? Tyrant 10:07, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)Tyrant

• • I noticed someone added "Yridians also have no thumbs, having just four fingers on each hand". Is this true for all episodes? Ideally I'd like to have it turn out that they have thumbs on Twilight, it would give us something to go with the supposit extinction. Some genetic minority without thumbs survived. I can dream. Tyrant 10:07, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)Tyrant

It's also possible that it was a one-person thing, as merchants, someone felt the Yridian didn't deserve the 5-finger discount any more. chop. ;-) -AJHalliwell 02:18, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Yridians were seen in 28 episodes, all in all. Every time, they had 4 fingers and no thumb (the actors wore a glove, that covered their index finger and thumb, making it appear to be one large finger). These four-fingered hands can be seen in close-up in "Birthright, Part I", "Firstborn", "A Simple Investigation" and "Business as Usual".

There are two exceptions however, one of them is Ashrock, the other is Yranac, from "Gambit, Part I". Both of them have regular, 5-fingered hands. But there are also some other small changes to their make-ups, because the two of them are the only Yridians we ever see with hair. Additionally their complexion is a lot darker, than the pale skin we normally associate with Yridians.

This change in make-up for the two characters might have something to do with the things those characters have to do with their hands in the episodes. Ashrock is seen holding the precious Ring of Paltriss, very close to the camera. Yranac is enjoying the food aboard the Enterprise in one scene, where he is seen picking up very small pieces of something to eat. Both these scenes would have been impossible with a thumb-less hand, that might be the reason, why these Yridians have normal hands and maybe, because Michael Westmore remembered that Yridians are normally supposed to have only 4 fingers and no thumb, he also changed the skin colour of those characters and added some hair, to make them look a little more like another species or just a sub-species of the Yridians.

Just my two cents, if you think, this should be added to the article (I've got screenshots of the different hands), I can do that. --Jörg 11:40, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)

• Very nice work! This certainly should be added, however, the community may have opinions on how it should be added. (we always do) : ) Jaf 17:30, 20 Sep 2005 (UTC)Jaf

Glitches

I don't know what's wrong with the Yridian page right now, but I can't see it! There's nothing on the page. When I try to re-upload all the text, everything is already in the "Editing" field, but when I upload the stuff, there's nothing on the Yridian page, proper. Does that have something to do with the current malfunctions or is that just happening to me? --Jörg 19:12, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)

• I can see it fine, and (fingers crossed) I'm hoping all the glitches are over, my uploading, editing, and reverting haven't had any troubles yet. So maybe try refreshing full quality, or just come back later? - AJHalliwell 19:15, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)
  • Wow, now it's back for me as well, thank god. Well, most of the glitches are over for me as well. I can edit again, but I'm still having trouble uploading things, takes several attempts to upload stuff. Well, maybe everything will work again in a few hours. I shall work on the additions to the Yridian article then. --Jörg 22:57, 20 Sep 2005 (UTC)
    • If you edit a page, and the changes don't immediately appear do a force refresh (the refresh button, F5, or CTRL-F5, depending on browsers) the new changes will appear.
    • The wiki is still apparently screwed up from that stupid pirate bullshit. what a waste of time. -- Captain Mike K. Bartel^talk 22:59, 20 Sep 2005 (UTC)