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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shakaar: [QB] Lee, though I�m always open to good reading suggestions, I found being told to go away and read something to be rude. I've read the reviews of the books- 200 years to transform a lifeless world into a new Earth is not "science faction". I had a problem with accomplishing it by the 24th century. The reviews state that they engineered plants and micro-organisms that could live on Mars to create "Green Mars" Martian soil lacks all nutrients needed for plant growth, and infact, the soil has oxidizing elements that would act to sterilize any bacteria or plant life that tried to take root. I see only VERY long-term plans to terraform Mars to be viable. I think terraforming planets is still important in the Trek Universe, because often planets that support life tend to have life, and then there are issues of the planet already having a species claim it, or the life on it is still developing and the UFP doesn't want to alter its natural progress. That does bring us to an interesting prime directive question. If a menshara class world is found with hominids, or any other so quasi-developed species, does the Federation set down roots? If the world has a chimpanzee-like species, would they settle, or would they declare it off limits? I wonder what exactly the criteria are to settle a world. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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