I was watching the "Undiscovered Country" and something confused me. One of the admirals in the initial meeting (toward the beginning of the movie) mentioned something about the Klingon Empire had 50 years left because their homeworld's ozone layer was depleting. TNG, to my knowledge, did not mention anything about that. More than one occasions they showed Quo'nos (sp) as a healthy planet. So, what happened? Did they find a way to regenerate the ozone layer or what?
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Posted by KXZ (Member # 119) on :
I have always also wondered that. I just assumed that they invented new technologies to fix the problem.
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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Best guess is that the Federation had some sort of Technology that could clean this mess. The Klingons divert almost all of their resources into their war machine, and they could care less for the Scientists. Perhaps the Khitomer accords had a stipulation that said that the Federation could help clean out the mess on Q'ono'S.
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Posted by Lt. Tom on :
That's what I've always figured.
"The Klingons wish to negotiate a cease-fire. It may have something to do with the fact that they have fifty years of air left."
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
If that is true, you'd think they would be forever grateful and have a debt towards the federation. That would be the honorable thing, wouldn't it?
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I guess their forgetting of that debt in the future, should it be true, has something to do with the loss of ethics and honor and lust for power that Martok talks about, describing the present empire in that episode where Gowron wants him dead all the time. Yes, that was the dollar-sign.
I really liked that overview picture in ST-VI, showing Camp Khitomer, with the Starfleet guy and the klingon, talking next to a wall. It looked so nice. Oh, here I go again. *sob* Oooh, why can't we all be friends?
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I figured the problem lay in the fact that the Klingons diverted all their resources to their miltary. After ST6, they stopped doing that, and they fixed the problem themselves.
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Posted by jh on :
Could someone zap Nimrod with the non-wuss gun?
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