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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [qb]>I'm guessing it was just the inner door. If they >blew out both doors, it would have caused a hull >breach when their ship pulled away. True, and as they leave the ship, they do in fact close the intact outer door. But then if they could get through the outer door so easily, why not do the same with the inner? Did they want to surprise/attack/disable some of the defenders that way? OTOH, they obviously didn't need it on the way out, and they didn't have a problem with leaving the ship intact overall.[/qb][/QUOTE]It's possible that the outer door has no locking mechanism? It occurs to me that in most circumstances, use of an airlock is cooperative. Also, perhaps whoever designed the airlocks was actually *thinking* (as opposed to Archer, who usually doesn't), and considered the possibility of hostile boarding through the airlocks. It would be better to let attackers in through the first door, thus negating the need to blow up said first door. That way, there wouldn't be that [i]gaping hole in the hull[/i] after the attackers broke the atmosphere seal when their ship left. [QUOTE][qb]Now, obviously the aquatics CAN travel through space, as they had to get off their homeworld somehow. But as to their usefulness in space, I highly doubt they'd be regular crew on any Xindi ships.[/qb][/QUOTE]Any aquatic being would be nearly useless in their native environment aboard a starship. Not only would their environment have to be completely waterproofed -- including any buttons or other equipment that would be adapted to their use inside the tanks -- but they would also be completely unable to effect any mechanical repairs, because there's no way for them to get access! Therefore, they'd have to be nothing more than specialized passengers, or else scientists (at the most) relying on normal humanoids for the heavy lifting. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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