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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [qb] Again with the star going nove. It didn't! The next planet out went blooey (although I know of no astronomical reason why this would happen), and that altered Ceti Alpha V's orbit and fucked over the global climate. --Jonah [/qb][/QUOTE]Maybe it was hit by a "Michael Bay" class global killer asteroid? ;) [QUOTE]Possible, yes. But it was no secret to Kirk or Spock that Earthlings would be flying around their star system in cryogenics-equipped ships in the early 1990s; and it in no way surprised McGivers that she found solid footing after beaming over to the Botany Bay. [/QUOTE]That could be explained by saying that by the 23rd century, they're aware that there was quite a bit of technology that was being kept out of the public domain, or it was so expensive that only the black ops budgets could afford it (hence the low budget look of the Ares IV). [QUOTE] I rather wonder if Khan's ship was even theoretically capable of founding an offworld colony. It might rather be that Khan simply did the best he could to get away from Earth for a while, but lacked the resources to mount a complete colonization mission. Heck, he probably planned on spending 50 years in cold sleep and then returning to Earth to start over - but the steering system jammed... [/QUOTE]I kind of like the idea that they had no idea where they were going and were just in a blind dash, though I kind of like the idea that they might have been on a course that would bring them back in a few hundred years, say get to alpha centauri, see if there's anywhere worth settling, if not then head back and hope mankind had bombed each other into the stone age so they could re-build it in their image. There's an alternate universe story in there somewhere, perhaps the true origins of the Mirror Universe is that Khan actually made it back after WWIII? I'm reminded that a few years back I collaborated with fellow flareite Kenny (Axeman), we tried to put together a mini-movie of Khan's escape. The concept was that the launch was from some secret complex in south-east asia (propper Bond villan stuff) and all the footage would have been from "real" cameras that would have been there (this is before BSG stole our idea ;) ). We had a whole story rouged out as to how it was a rushed launch with 3 DY-100's taking off in rapid sucession. The third one clearing the tower just as the base was hit by a tactical nuke, knocking it out of the sky. The blast wave & EMP just caught the second DY, causing it to have to limp in low orbit to try for a slingshot out of orbit, where it was to be taken out by a defence satellite (yes, like the Gary Seven one.) Leaving the Botany Bay as the lead ship to make it out of orbit by the skin of it's teeth; having escaped a missile by dumping some of their cargo pods in it's path. Needless to say it was all a little too ambitious and we didn't get very far, though I might still have a test screen shot of the launch somewhere. Seeing this enhanced footage made me wish we'd managed it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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