Devidians: Lore Index

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The Devidians are antagonists of Star Trek TNG that appear in Time's Arrow as spectral ghosts that are capable of time travel and have a fondness for human neural energies. They also feature heavily in some Star Trek books, so let's take a look.
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  • @keithtorgersen9664
    @keithtorgersen9664Ай бұрын

    "Feeding off on entire timelines" Weeping Angels: 👀

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__LАй бұрын

    One of my favourites. I liked how they immediately refused Picard’s diplomacy, so then he went “I’ll let Worf blow them up”.

  • @phillipm9285
    @phillipm9285Ай бұрын

    Calm down Crusher is the funniest thing I’ve heard today

  • @ianmcintire6696
    @ianmcintire6696Ай бұрын

    I always wondered if the alien(s?) seen in Timescape (in Romulan disguise) were these guys, too.

  • @yodaslovetoy
    @yodaslovetoyАй бұрын

    Not to be confused with the davidians who are normally down the pub

  • @shagnastyfo20

    @shagnastyfo20

    Ай бұрын

    Given that they feed off of the branching timelines could we refer to them as... Branch Devidians?

  • @shanenolan5625

    @shanenolan5625

    Ай бұрын

    😂

  • @PaulJohn01

    @PaulJohn01

    Ай бұрын

    @@shagnastyfo20 Ooooh that was sadly funny 😮😮🤣🤣

  • @CristySFM1234
    @CristySFM1234Ай бұрын

    Happy to see a new culture index especially one about ghosties Hope we get one on the Hur'q

  • @GODCONVOYPRIME

    @GODCONVOYPRIME

    Ай бұрын

    Do you really want to Hur'q me? do you really want to make french fries? bom bom bom bom.....

  • @jeffkardosjr.3825
    @jeffkardosjr.3825Ай бұрын

    Branch Devidians?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6umАй бұрын

    I hoped in the upcoming Star Trek shows, the Devidians would be mention again, especially in any Temporal Wars references.

  • @yodaslovetoy
    @yodaslovetoyАй бұрын

    "They have five fingers and six toes".... so they're from Norwich then?

  • @bipolarminddroppings

    @bipolarminddroppings

    Ай бұрын

    Ah, Norwich. The place where a man introduces you to his sister and wife, then you realise there's only one woman standing there.

  • @temporaldisplacement

    @temporaldisplacement

    Ай бұрын

    Devideans : COYB!

  • @PaulJohn01

    @PaulJohn01

    Ай бұрын

    Sounds like you might be from some weird place Not located within the bootiful county of Norfolk 🤔 🤣🤣

  • @vexile1239
    @vexile1239Ай бұрын

    Ive been looking for videos and information on these creatures for years, its difficult to find any information on them, thank you Rick

  • @ethzero
    @ethzeroАй бұрын

    If the Devidians want to go after the Kelvin and NuTrek timeline, by all means, please do ❤️

  • @NikolaiManning
    @NikolaiManningАй бұрын

    Now that you explain it like that, I see some parallels with the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. Another of my favorite creepy aliens.

  • @obsidiansands
    @obsidiansandsАй бұрын

    Devidians always somehow made me think of that lunatic David Koresh and his brand lf cultists called Davidians.

  • @Fayanora
    @FayanoraАй бұрын

    Next video should be on their offshoot, the Branch Devidians.

  • @matthewmainwaring2942
    @matthewmainwaring2942Ай бұрын

    Will there be more Star Trek online videos in the future? I hope so

  • @JDEhlert

    @JDEhlert

    Ай бұрын

    The next episode of the current arc is coming soon. Just not sure exactly when, but Sela will be a part of it.

  • @Shapes_Quality_Control
    @Shapes_Quality_ControlАй бұрын

    Specters was the first and remains STO’s best story arc. I replay it at least once a year.

  • @emporer15

    @emporer15

    Ай бұрын

    A shame they made it harder to play.

  • @Shapes_Quality_Control

    @Shapes_Quality_Control

    Ай бұрын

    @@emporer15 What do you mean by that?

  • @emporer15

    @emporer15

    Ай бұрын

    @@Shapes_Quality_Control They changed it to a side mission and made the minimum level 65. Made a new character for Delta last week, wanted to replay this arc, and level 61 still isn't high enough to get it.

  • @Shapes_Quality_Control

    @Shapes_Quality_Control

    Ай бұрын

    @@emporer15 It shouldn’t be that difficult to reach 65 at this point, especially on a Delta recruit.

  • @emporer15

    @emporer15

    Ай бұрын

    @@Shapes_Quality_Control Yes but it's the idea they changed such a classic mission.

  • @anthonyh1956
    @anthonyh1956Ай бұрын

    After seeing Rick’s post on the Devidians, I had the thought that may be they are Iconian’s after the Heart was stolen who genetically altered themselves and either forgot or don’t care about their origins, or were an Iconian Servitor race that once the Iconians changed (as per Star Trek online) to non-corporeal beings, went their own way. Might be fun to play that idea out.

  • @wetodd3879
    @wetodd3879Ай бұрын

    I really do love these videos.

  • @GeologyJournalism
    @GeologyJournalismАй бұрын

    Great stuff as always!

  • @jones81381
    @jones81381Ай бұрын

    I hear that at some point in the past the Davidians… branched out.

  • @johnwclick
    @johnwclickАй бұрын

    Devidians: like the Wraith, but invisible...😮

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853Ай бұрын

    Pretty eerie creatures

  • @thecoolestcorgi4991
    @thecoolestcorgi4991Ай бұрын

    I was sad when I couldn’t find an index on them a few months ago. This came at the perfect time…….. get out of my walls

  • @SchardtCinematic
    @SchardtCinematicАй бұрын

    I love the Times Arrow episodes alot. But a thought just occurred to me. Since they can change thier physical appearance. Why not go onto a Borg Cube where there are thousands of Borg to collect there energy. The dividians are probably somewhat simular to species 8472 and might be impossible to assimilate

  • @Spawn-td8bf
    @Spawn-td8bfАй бұрын

    Cool, just...cool. Thank you.

  • @gent_Carolina
    @gent_Carolina6 күн бұрын

    Sounds to me like they're doing a service, like carrion eaters, molds, etc., as long as they stay off the main timeline & only trim the hedges neatly. 😉

  • @jacara1981
    @jacara1981Ай бұрын

    I like to think that the alien in ST Voyager's episode Coda is a Devidian. He tries to get Janeway to go with him, making it appear she is dead. He mentions that he wants her in his matrix where he will feed on her.

  • @tommytwotacos8106

    @tommytwotacos8106

    Ай бұрын

    I think that people might reject this retcon as being part of the "small universe" tendencies we find lazy writers indulging in, if it isn't handled properly. I think that it could work if the connection is only hinted at and never actually confirmed. The writers would need to provide almost the same the amount of evidence for the proposition as they provide for a negation of the premise. This way, both groups get exactly what they want to believe out of the story, and the gatekeepers can't act all butthurt about their favorite show doing a thing that they didn't personally think was the greatest thing ever.

  • @keithtorgersen9664

    @keithtorgersen9664

    Ай бұрын

    This could also be a possibility for the aliens featured in Non-Sequitur.

  • @Captain.AmericaV1
    @Captain.AmericaV1Ай бұрын

    So, you did a chapter of STO with them featured? My Rom Tac officer is close to that story arc

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853Ай бұрын

    Right off the bat, a dark industrial corridor.

  • @bipolarminddroppings
    @bipolarminddroppingsАй бұрын

    I will never understand how Star Trek writers think you can have an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere on a barren planet. It's the very basics of planetary science, you don't get free oxygen in an atmosphere, certainly not enough to breathe, without something constantly producing it, so far as we know, only plant life can do that. I've never once heard a Star Trek character remark "I wonder where the oxygen is coming from" on such a world...

  • @japzone

    @japzone

    Ай бұрын

    I guess the implication is that there used to be plant life, but it died out for one reason or another. The oxygen remained, just there wasn't any new oxygen being created. Maybe without anything making CO2, plants ran out of stuff to breath and died?

  • @thetruth45678

    @thetruth45678

    Ай бұрын

    ​​​@@japzoneThe problem there is that oxygen doesn't just sit around. It is extremely reactive, and quickly bonds with damn near everything. Hence, oxidation. Unless you have an active supply replenishing it as quickly as it bonds with the elements in the soil, it will completely transform into oxides, leaving no free O2 to breathe. Finding an oxygen-rich atmosphere is pretty much proof of life, or the products of life. We don't really see O2 being produced at scale any other way.

  • @marsar1775

    @marsar1775

    Ай бұрын

    @@japzone oxygen loves to bond with most anything. iron rich rocks rust, as does copper ore, for examples. if the plants were dead long enough for there to be no life left on the surface at all, nor organic sludge from decomposition, the oxygen wouldve by then long since bonded with everything to the point of atmospheric irrelevance

  • @japzone

    @japzone

    Ай бұрын

    @@marsar1775 fair

  • @Shapes_Quality_Control

    @Shapes_Quality_Control

    Ай бұрын

    Almost like… non of this was ever really scientific like Trekkies erroneously presumed.

  • @kingsilvergrass8751
    @kingsilvergrass8751Ай бұрын

    Devidians will be the type of enigmatic yet ominous species I've ever come across, multiverse and all. they even rival the Iconians

  • @topogigio7031

    @topogigio7031

    Ай бұрын

    Zoomers have ruined language

  • @dylanthomas385
    @dylanthomas385Ай бұрын

    Do some culture indexes

  • @S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc
    @S1337theoddoneout-ip9xcАй бұрын

    I wish the devidians would get their way with the kelvin timeline.

  • @professorjurassic
    @professorjurassicАй бұрын

    Hi

  • @CosmicCorviknight
    @CosmicCorviknightАй бұрын

    I wonder if the Devidian's would have played a role in the Temporal Wars. Their motives don't seem to be big galactic altering changes (e.g. wipe out the Federation) but even so I wonder if factions like the Temporal Agents and Federation Timeships would permit their time hopping buffets of neural energy

  • @FasutonemuMyoji

    @FasutonemuMyoji

    Ай бұрын

    It's almost like they figured out how to hide from time agents like in the Loki series, quite simply by only interfering with timelines of people who are going to die anyway because of some calamity or branched timeline collapsing. Since nothing changes, no time agents show up to fix anything.

  • @CosmicCorviknight

    @CosmicCorviknight

    Ай бұрын

    @@FasutonemuMyoji Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way. In universe that could mean the Devidians in TNG are aware of the Time Agents seen in VOY and ENT so are being very selective when it comes to time travel feeding

  • @michaelmutranowski123
    @michaelmutranowski123Ай бұрын

    I wonder what the Sheliak would think about the Devidians?

  • @casbot71
    @casbot71Ай бұрын

    With their abilities, better hope they never get assimilated by the Borg....

  • @dinoben65
    @dinoben65Ай бұрын

    Good old ghost

  • @PaulJohn01
    @PaulJohn01Ай бұрын

    Have the Borg ever assimilated any Devidians ?

  • @whirledpeaz5758
    @whirledpeaz5758Ай бұрын

    Almost mistook this as documentary of the ATF mass murder in Waco, TX

  • @grahamturner1290
    @grahamturner1290Ай бұрын

    🖖

  • @SlashDotDash121
    @SlashDotDash121Ай бұрын

    What game were you playing?

  • @johnsimonson1207

    @johnsimonson1207

    Ай бұрын

    He was showing clips from Star Trek Online, an MMO that he also did a full series on.

  • @SkrapMetal84
    @SkrapMetal84Ай бұрын

    i hope STO does more with them they have kinda vanished.

  • @dmkatelyn
    @dmkatelynАй бұрын

    What game?

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853Ай бұрын

    Very glowie humanoids

  • @drunkrdm
    @drunkrdmАй бұрын

    fun video, but the flashing from the textures glitching a distracting.

  • @tommytwotacos8106
    @tommytwotacos8106Ай бұрын

    "They have five fingers and six toes" So, Mandy Patinkin is going to hunt them down for murdering his father?

  • @WraithCustomsFirearms
    @WraithCustomsFirearmsАй бұрын

    Hey buddy, love your vids, but your last few vids, including this one, are hard to listen to especially with earbuds. Not sure if your filter broke or missing but your speech, specifically on words with an S in them, peak very sharp and REALLY loud. It's very unpleasant, more so with any volume. Keep up the great vids, but please fix the spikes.

  • @ThisIsMeAndNotYou
    @ThisIsMeAndNotYouАй бұрын

    310

  • @fenian1
    @fenian1Ай бұрын

    Similar to the Branch Davidians ? LOL

  • @MeNoOther
    @MeNoOtherАй бұрын

    Sounds similar to the weeping angels

  • @crookeymonster
    @crookeymonsterАй бұрын

    ahh the coda books, awful awful ending to the treklit universe

  • @Corbomite_Meatballs

    @Corbomite_Meatballs

    Ай бұрын

    Absolutely agree with you...I feel like I wasted all that time and money supporting the post-show verse only to have it all trashed.

  • @crippletime
    @crippletimeАй бұрын

    Algorithm comment

  • @vexile1239

    @vexile1239

    Ай бұрын

    Three more words needed, I heard that the algorithm ignores less then five words

  • @metal87power
    @metal87powerАй бұрын

    they are demons

  • @confuseatronica
    @confuseatronicaАй бұрын

    Brench Devidians? Didn't they all get bernt by the FBE?

  • @warwolf88
    @warwolf88Ай бұрын

    they destroyed the star trek universe

  • @DeaconBlu
    @DeaconBluАй бұрын

    Really? 0.0004 seconds….? It’s getting a bit silly…is it not? 🤨

  • @thetruth45678

    @thetruth45678

    Ай бұрын

    It's... it's sci-fi. Silly techno-babel is parr for the course. Besides, phase-shifting is a well worn trope, and is routinely shown to be achievable with very minute variances. It's how The Flash is able to become effectively intangible by vibrating slightly out of phase with matter in order to pass through solid walls. It's the same concept with a slightly different effect. It's also a major plot point, because the variance required such precision that only Data could accompmish the task. Have you seen the TNG episode?

  • @keithtorgersen9664

    @keithtorgersen9664

    Ай бұрын

    Consider also that this was back in 1992. The ".0004 seconds" was part of the season 5 TNG episode "Time's Arrow".

  • @senatuspopulusqueromanus2082
    @senatuspopulusqueromanus2082Ай бұрын

    Very bullshit, very don't like.

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