Talk:El-Aurian

message: "However, if they were not warp-capable, the allocation of years of
travel from El-Auria to Earth and back again may be acceptable to a
long-lived species if the trip was profitable or beneficial in some
way."
Even with high warp speeds, travel from the Delta quadrant to Earth
takes some 70 years (see Voyager), so without warp it would take way
too long, even for such a long-lived species. —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
:I would think the estimate is a bit outdated. In Q Who? the Enterprise was whisked away to the Borg space ("near the System J2-5" 7000 lightyears away from their original location) by Q and the estimated time required to return (at maximum warp speed) was 2 years.
:Was it ever really established that El-Auria is located in the Delta Quadrant? According to that episode, the El-Aurians had been to that place before having been wiped out by the Borg. Granted, though: even if the El-Aurian homeworld was near to that place, it would still have taken them 7000 years at lightspeed alone, so "conventional" travel would be a bit unlikely, even for El-Aurians.
:If they got there without warpspeed, it must have been a colony ship or something like that, and several tens (or hundreds, at sub-lightspeed) of generations would have had passed before they arrived -- which would suggest larger numbers than Guinan's backstory of the odd secret visitor.
:Either way, the interesting notion here is how close the Borg were to Federation space. 2 years at maximum warp (i.e. nine-point-something) is quite realistic for a determined invasion force, whereas the Voyager series' Borg seemed to rely on wormholes to get to places in an instant (thus allowing them to be located much farther away and still be a threat). I wonder whether the original "homeworld" of the Borg being located ~70 years away at max warp was intended from the start or added later because the ~2 years turned out being too close.
:But I digress... — Ashmodai (talk · contribs) 20:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

message: There is a suggestion in the article that the El-Aurians have mind-reading capability because of Soran's manipulation of Picard.  It seemed to me this wasn't mind reading, it was just another example of El-Aurians' ability to be good listeners.  Picard was clearly acting very impatient and upset and Soran extrapolated it was something related to time/mortality and it worked. 75.85.48.172 (talk) 06:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "mind-reading ability" 

message: "They also have an awareness beyond the normal flow of time and space and can detect changes to time even though they may not be aware of exactly what those changes were."
Is it anywhere established that this is common to all El Aurians? As far as I know, only Guinan has demonstrated this ability. I thought this could be due to her time in the Nexus. Marky1981 19:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was only established in a draft script of Star Trek: Generations. As it was cut from the filmed version, it cannot be regarded as canon. Though it does seem a logical possibility. --
207.6.171.24 02:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awareness outside of normal space-time 

message: It was requested that "El Aurian be moved to "El-Aurian". I think this should be uncontroversial, so I moved it. — Knowledge Seeker দ 22:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: A Google search for this alleged character turned up zero results, so I removed the references. I'm assuming it was a misplaced attempt at fan fiction, but if I'm wrong and it's a misspelled reference to a canon character feel free to put it back.  Will the Great (talk) 03:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ren Torles