Whatever. Gloranthan Scorpionfolk do lay eggs.
--Peter Metcalfe
And hand grenades.
In fact, the Tribble Tribe of Lower Farnwollop have live young but they are
very furry and rather cute, if in a monstrous way. Only batbroo have a cuter
way of saying meep than do they. They only sting (or rape and pillage) if
they don't get stroked often enough. They reproduce asexually and rapidly.
They get stuck in the Transporter. They can clog up the warp Drive something
terrible too. Kirk...carries one...in
his....trousers..........to...impresss....the ladies. You might have noticed
he gets distracted on occasion.
The Bovva Beasts go on seventeen year migrations, bivouacking every night in a tent made of their own bodies. They lay their eggs in the soft sands wherever they go and these spend seventeen years underground until they all emerge together and make a fearsome din.
BTW, if scorpion men are unintelligent, there's no requirement for the queen to have any intelligence. Social insect queens seem to get by.
Sam.
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