No clue. I’ve just read the articles talking about how crabs have evolved separately I think three times. Nature keeps making crabs. But that is using earth environments. Perhaps very alien environments would have selection bias toward other forms.
Because the whole episode was them hallucinating after being exposed to alien spores. They were cured of being high as a kite not of being hyperevolved salamanders. The sex though was probably real so they understandably never talk about it again.
My pet theory is that going past Warp 10 makes you have powerful, contagious psychic hallucinations, and that the crew of the Voyager actually just found Paris and Janeway rolling around naked in the mud making salamander noises in an inebriated stupor.
I never thought of that, good idea. Obviously they didn’t make it because it would make the show obsolete to have the ability for an information gathering device to be literally everywhere at the same time, allowing real time data collection of everything imaginable.
But the question stands, why wouldn’t starfleet build them after the discovery on voyager? Possibly the most enormous tactical development in the history of the setting, starfleet could literally observe what happens in the romulan government from their headquarters, or monitor the Borg up close without any risk.
We learn from TNG that some parts of the galaxy are being damaged by warp travel and have speed limits to lessen further degredation. A warp 10 probe would likely cause massive damage to these protected zones as well as some damage to normal zones.
They had a salamander-person among the patients who went to "The Farm" in that episode where Tendi made a dog and Boimler got stuck mid-transport, so they haven't forgotten.
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