quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: There are 7 along each side of the saucer just inboard of the phaser strips (14). Inboard of the sixth one back on each side is another (16). And there are 4 directly behind the bridge (20).
Ack! So that's 20 pods on decks 1-3, with zero for the remaining decks and engineering hull. Hope that baby's got a good shuttle, or else it's "haha! screw you, engineering guys!".
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did WtBB specify that was all the kids? its possible the Aldeans didnt kidnap all the children on the ship (unless the episode specifies that implicitly somewhere).. i remember Picard briefing the parents and there were very few people there...
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I dont think that represented all the Enterprise's children: just the very few that had their kids kidnapped by the (also very few) planet's would-be parents.
So....that planet was in Federation space? It's chock full o' technological secrets for the Fed to ste....er...."trade" for.
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MIght have to break out the DVDs... But for some reason I can't imagine a scene where Dr. Crusher bursts onto the bridge and cries "Jean-Luc! The Aldeans have abducted A FEW of our children!".
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Well, Bev was prone to hamming it up in first season. She says something like "They've (gasp!)taken our children!!!!"
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In addition, there were a few classroom scenes in later seasons, with Alexander and some of the other kids-of-the-week, and in all those, there were close to a dozen or so children, all of the same approximate age group. That suggests there were several dozen kids or more on the ship.
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I dunno - I'd always thought that the classroom we saw was the ONLY one there was. In episodes like "Rascals", all the kids who weren't able-bodied adults were in that one classroom, which again seemed to be about a dozen INCLUDING the munchkinized crew. I still think that there are only a handful of kids on the ship at any one time. Since kids seem to be considered adults by their mid-teens in the TNG era, they wouldn't need a classroom for much more than primary school (through sixth grade or so).
Perhaps we need a second opinion here... Is anyone on the TrekBBS forums? Rick Sternbach would probably have a better answer for us.
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One would expect that a crew in exces of 1000, having families aboard, would have at least half-a-dozen children of ever age group
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: I dunno - I'd always thought that the classroom we saw was the ONLY one there was. In episodes like "Rascals", all the kids who weren't able-bodied adults were in that one classroom,
Graphics in that episode called it "classroom 6" though, or something similar. That implies to me that there are, say, 6 or more classrooms.
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The episode (though I shudder to recall it) The Child shows several small children in elementary school and mentions "a litter of puppies" as though it's not an uncommon occurance. If dogs are breeding freely on board, I imagine the crew is as well.
Also, the first episode with (shudder) Alexander attending class has yet another group of elementary school kids attending class.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: If dogs are breeding freely on board, I imagine the crew is as well.
Right. Now, you realise that there is a LARGE difference in the reasons why humans mate, compared with why dogs mate?
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You havent been to many clubs lately have you?
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Yes, although obviously not the same clubs you go to. Are you saying that all those people are there because they want to reproduce?
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