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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Those tanks coulud easily be for aquatic Federation crewmembers- a couple of years back, I was reading an intresting article on the possibility of sentient lifeforms originating in a deep-sea environment. They might communicate via chromataform color changes on their bodies (like some squids use during mating), so never even consider audio communication signals. No more than we search the night's sky for projected infra-red signals or something else so...[i]alien[/i] our senses. That whole "we did a planetary survey in a few days" bit from TNG was soooo much bullshit- each class M world would need decades to make even a half-assed survey (and [i]that's[/i] with useing TNG level technology!). So the tanks on a GCS might house anything from hundreds of colonial-inteligence inscets that need special stmosphere to something that would be instantly killed in one "G" of pressure It's concievable that starfleet operates entire starships that have no humanoid crewmembers (or that the humanoids live in enclosed habitats while the majority have free-reign of the ship with it's hazardous pressure/atmosphere/radiation/tempature. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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