Topic: The breen? (Read 2565 times)

Clark Kent · « **on:** February 25, 2005, 10:18:52 am »

Have they ever shown what the breen look like? I assume there is a reason they always kept them wrapped up so you couldn't see their faces other than need for a "cold suit"

Rat Boy · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2005, 10:30:13 am »

No one really knows, since the information kind of contradicts itself. Worf is quoted as saying no one had seen a Breen and lived to tell about it, and yet Kira had stolen a Breen suit not once but twice. In order for that saying to be true, there has to be something up. For instance, if the Breen really prefer the cold, perhaps they like it so cold that they'd be flash-fried the second they were exposed to normal air. However, while the original theory of the Breen homeworld being a frozen planet has been generally accepted as fact, there is one obscure quote that I see a lot of the websites neglecting to mention. In one of the final DS9 episodes, Weyoun made a throwaway remark that he heard from one of the Breen that their world is really temperate, not frozen. So, if the suits aren't used for refrigeration, then what? Are they like the "encounter suits" that the Vorlons from Babylon 5 wore and if you tear one open, whoever's inside get vaporized by some charge in order to prevent anyone from seeing them?

dragoon · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2005, 02:54:43 pm »

Maybe they are descendents of Human Augments, and that's why one was willing to help Bashir in that Dominion jail....or they are remnants of flat headed Klingons..

But the Breen did have a deal with the Dominion for Control of Earth??

Rat Boy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2005, 04:53:14 pm »

They did indeed, which ticked off Weyoun, since he expected to run Earth.

The Breen can't be Augments for two reasons: one is that they supposedly have no blood (or weren't willing to cough up a sample) and that there was a line in a DS9 episode that said that a Klingon emperor tried to conquer the Breen homeworld, and the Empire stopped having emperors around 2069, only seven years after Earth developed warp drive. Also, for that reason, they can't be Klingon "Augments," since they started showing up in 2154, as depicted in last week's and this week's episodes of ENT.

Alidar Jarok · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2005, 05:56:29 pm »

I never knew the Breen demanded Earth. I guess the cost of them joining the war was very high (I do remember Weyoun talking about erradicating everyone on Earth to prevent uprisings, so I don't see why Earth should have been so important to him).

Rat Boy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2005, 06:10:11 pm »

He changed his mind after Dukat's long-winded speech about making your enemies see that they were wrong to oppose you in the first place.

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