Lanthanites and Pelia - speculation

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

The Lanthanites were probably named after the Greek word lanthánō.

From Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice”) +‎ -um (“a chemical element”), because it had gone long undetected in mineral ores.

I speculate that they were actually the origin of many of our myths and legends about witches or faeries. Pelia certainly comes off a little witchy (delightfully so). If there was a nigh-immortal race of human-like beings on Earth for centuries, acquiring knowledge and occasionally stepping in to meddle with Homo sapiens affairs, I could see them being credited with supernatural qualities by humans who began to suspect they weren't entirely what they appeared to be.

Now, did they co-evolve with humans, or did they take refuge on Earth after leaving their original world? I kind of like the former theory.

 

[Nerys Myk]

speculate that they were actually the origin of many of our myths and legends about witches or faeries. Pelia certainly comes off a little witchy (delightfully so).

At least until we meet one who isn't played by Carol Kane

 

[NCC-73515]

They're also a major part of the periodic table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

They're also a major part of the periodic table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide

The lanthanide sequence has the same greek root because the ores went unnoticed for some time.

 

[valkyrie013]

Probably retcon Flint into the designation.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

We know Dr. McCoy will live up to 137 y/o at least.
My speculation that the average Lanthanites will outlive humans by a single order of magnitude.
So they could live for 1### years while humans can only live for 1## years.
All assuming we're using Earth Years as the basis.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Some people have asked "why couldn't they have used El-Aurians instead of Lanthanites?" Aside that it would have just made Pelia SNW's version of Guinan (except with a tool belt), I think it's not that implausible that the El-Aurians weren't the only extraterrestrials living secretly among Humans. While first contact was officially in 2063, Earth likely had been unknowingly home to a number of extraterrestrials for many centuries, if not a few millennia.

Earth may have been the Galaxy's equivalent of Portland, Oregon--a relatively quiet place where people could just kind of disappear among the locals and lay low for awhile...

 

[fireproof78]

Cab drivers.

 

[Tosk]

I think it's not that implausible that the El-Aurians weren't the only extraterrestrials living secretly among Humans

We already know they weren't the only ones. There were Vulcans and a Romulan living on Earth as humans at one time or another before First Contact. And probably plenty of other ones I'm forgetting.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

They make their spaceships out of wood. Might explain why they've been with us so long...

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Cab drivers.

Not as many as you'd think.

I might just be misremembering a beta canon source, but someone (a Vulcan?) once referred to the pop culture alien abductions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as having actually been real alien abductions by some random species. lol

 

[UssGlenn]

Now, did they co-evolve with humans, or did they take refuge on Earth after leaving their original world? I kind of like the former theory.

I prefer co-evolve

Probably retcon Flint into the designation.

Yes, this. But he might not be aware of the others.

My speculation that the average Lanthanites will outlive humans by a single order of magnitude.
So they could live for 1### years while humans can only live for 1## years.

You wouldn't describe under 2000 years as "almost forever"

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

You wouldn't describe under 2000 years as "almost forever"

I'd say she's exaggerating a bit.
Being Super Hyper Bolic.

When you lived as long as she has, you've seen quite a few things in your life time.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She also wrote the very first song.

 

[fireproof78]

You wouldn't describe under 2000 years as "almost forever"

Hmmmm....well, I saw a friend from college last week and said, "haven't seen you in forever. "

 

[The Wormhole]

Spoiler

Given we have a time travel episode to modern times coming up in a couple weeks, I wonder if we run into a younger Pelia?

 

[Lyon_Wonder]

I hope Pelia being in the 22nd century opens the door to referencing ENT and Archer’s era in SNW since she could have actually met and even knew some of the crew of the NX-01, especially Trip Tucker since he was the ship’s chief engineer.

Pelia could have even been working with the United Earth's Starfleet in the 2150s too through the same exchange program as Phlox.

 

[JoseNoodles]

Well I think we might now know where Flint came from.

 

[valkyrie013]

Well it's 2260ish.. If she says "over a hundred years" since shes been a crew member on a starship.. That puts her at the romulan war or birth of federation time.

 

[JRob94]

She’s not a witch, she’s your wife