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One other thing: while I realize that communciation delays have never ever been anything other than an occasional plot device, I would have liked at least some mention of bandwidth and/or delay problems with the Romulan setup. Though I guess we can infer that they, along with the cryptological difficulties exploited by the Enterprise crew, exist, since the Romulans don't appear to aggressively pursue the technology. (Their warships in the future all have crews. Or do they?)
I don't mind that it wasn't used, since it was one of the more forgettable parts of a largely forgettable film, but could they have used Remans? Their telepathic powers, alas, seem pretty powerful.
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I agree with you, Sol. There should have been a big lag going on with remotely controlling a starship that far away from Romulus. I would have rather like to have seen the control interface, the Aenar, and the Romulan officers on board a cloaked ship (maybe the ones from "Minefield"?) following the WarFlea. After all, we never heard mention of Enterprise tracing the communications frequency, so it's likely the Romulans would have remained undiscovered.
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I was assuming that it would be revealed that the Aenar's telepathic skills would have some bearing on any comms lag. . . The ep didn't make any inroads on that, however, beyond assuming that telepathic people could handle the interface better. They didn't explain in what way, though, or how the set-up actually worked - was it a direct-neural jobby, or merely a fancy VR rig?
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I don't suppose anyone was trying to make parallels between Andoria and its apparent inspiration as a moon of a ringed gas giant, in light of the fun we've been having on Titan recently...
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It's kind of weird that Andoria is a moon, though. Like, I am surprised they were let into the United Federation of Planets, instead of being politely shunted off to, say, the League of Moons, which I imagine as being a bit like the Chicago Cubs or the Ottoman Empire or something. You know, you admire them just for showing up.
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