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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Actually, it's stuff pulled from Spock and Kirk's respective arses. From the flimsiest evidence, Spock draws the conclusion that [QUOTE]"Projecting back on our star charts, we find that it came from outside, from another galaxy."[/QUOTE]Which is profoundly silly, because he can't tell how far back he should backtrack. If you extrapolate the route I took to work this morning back far enough, I came from outside the galaxy, too... Kirk then goes on with [QUOTE]"It's a weapon built primarily as a bluff. It's never meant to be used. So strong, it could destroy both sides in a war. Something like the old H-Bomb was supposed to be. That's what I think this is -- a doomsday machine that somebody used in a war uncounted years ago. They don't exist anymore, but the machine is still destroying." [/QUOTE]We never learn why Kirk would jump to this conclusion. He has no evidence that the weapon would be destructive enough to hurt the alien combatants he postulates. He has no evidence that the intended mission of the device would be over, rather than ongoing according to plan. And he has no evidence that the original builders aren't still receiving daily updates and steepling their tentacles and going "Exxxxellent!". Of course, Kirk's conclusions don't actually hurt anyone. He still has to stop the machine, and he wouldn't do it any other way even if he knew this was the desperate anti-Borg measure of a peaceful race of sapient bunny rabbits. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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