Taylor also revealed that the whales' release was set for noon the next day, forcing Kirk to push up his mission's timetable and hurry the preparations. In a later dinner conversation with Taylor, she confirms to Kirk that Gracie is indeed pregnant but also that the whales would be subject to hunting after their release and that a captive humpback's life expectancy in the wild is typically very low. During his melding with George, Spock discovers that Gracie is pregnant. Kirk and Spock were then told to leave the institution. Later, in an embarrassing moment during the tour, Spock, having entered the whales' tank, mind-melded with George and communicated the intentions of the Bounty's crew. During the tour, she informs the group that the whales are to be released into the Pacific Ocean the Institute simply cannot afford to care for and feed them any longer. Taylor had developed an affectionate bond with the whales, taking a strong interest in their comfort and safety. The two whales were a mated couple, named George and Gracie, after the famous comedy acting duo George and Gracie Burns. Gillian Taylor, a whale expert specializing in the species and whom led a tour including Kirk and Spock. Their care and study were overseen by Dr. The whales were captive, kept in a large tank at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California. Kirk traveled back in time to San Francisco in 1986 and retrieved two humpback whales to answer the alien probe which now threatened Earth. The probe arrived in 2286 and, finding no sign of the humpbacks, began to ionize Earth's oceans with a very powerful communication signal. Some time after that point, an alien probe was sent to Earth to determine why contact had been lost with the humpback whale. The race maintained some level of contact until the 21st century when the humpbacks became extinct. This species became extinct during the 21st century due to overhunting.Īt some point in the past, humpback whales were contacted by an advanced alien race.
This species was well known for its complex song, which was proven in 2286 to be a full-fledged language. Adults usually ranged between forty-five to fifty feet in length, and weighed about forty tons.
The humpback whales evolved approximately ten million years before modern humans. The humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae) was a sentient aquatic cetaceous mammal species indigenous to Earth. George and Gracie, a male and female humpback whale
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