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Thanks Harry! Caps are a bit small, but very nice. Are all tech things there? The asteroid is cold station 12? The denobulan medical shuttle and klingon BoP are there, was there anything shown in the BoP:s shuttlebay? Like a small vessel? Any schematics seen?
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quote:Originally posted by Harry: - 1800+ embryos. Yikes! This must be a top-top-secret facility. Because Kirk & co. were convinced that the ~80 supermen on the Botany Bay were all there ever were.
No, Khan's 80 were the only ones unaccounted for at the end of the wars. The ones from C-12 were certainly fairly well accounted for, plus they hadn't even been "born" yet.
quote:- The diseases listed on the inventory where: - Xenopolycythemia (TOS: "For the World is...") - Synthococcus novae type A (TOS: "The Way to Eden") - Rigelian fever (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah") - Tellurian plague (TNG: "A Matter of Time") - Anchilles fever (TNG: "Code of Honor") - Andronesian encephalitis (TNG: "The Dauphin")
That's very, very cool. About as cool as when they used the anatomical illustrations of all those TOS creatures from the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual in the schoolroom on DS9.
quote:Originally posted by Starship Freak: Thanks Harry! Caps are a bit small, but very nice. Are all tech things there? The asteroid is cold station 12? The denobulan medical shuttle and klingon BoP are there, was there anything shown in the BoP:s shuttlebay? Like a small vessel? Any schematics seen?
Well surely someone here on the board can make their own batch of HDTV-quality caps custom-tailored to our own specific needs. (More ship shots and views of the arm patches, etc.) Any takers? Lee?
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"So apparently the Augments weren't engineered by direct DNA recombination or other entirely-artificial means like that. (Actually, this is in line with Spock's 'selective breeding' line, though I'm not sure this actually qualifies as 'genetic engineering.') They have mothers and fathers. Smike's were a geophysicist named Miklos Karlovassi and and an Olympic silver medalist named Irina."
Well, the genetic material had to come from somewhere. Presumably, it was better to use actual donated ova and sperm, rather than, say, cloning (which, as we know from TNG, could have the problem of replicative fading). They probably tried to pick smart/athletic donors so that they wouldn't have to do as much tinkering. But there's no way they got those results through purely passive eugenics.
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quote:Originally posted by Kazeite: I just wonder how five Augments and one Soong have managed to move 1800 embryos to the shuttle in two and a half minutes...
Presumably the Klingons and the Denobulans have transporters. But if so, why didn't they just beam the embryos out of hte ault in the first place? It must be shielded.
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No, they don't have shields, remember? Besides, Archer and company beamed in with no problem. Matching the frequency of the stasis fields was only to allow them to remain undetected.
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Well, not SHIELD shields, but maybe an interference field or SOMETHING to make transport of at least living tissue a bother. The beaming tech of this era can be destabilized by giving the platform a nasty look, after all.
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I saw the last twenty minutes and it was the first time I'd seen the show this season, and all I wanted to do was make sarcastic comments about the convenient human-sized death tubes, but now that's been taken away from me.
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The Klingon disruptor is the same as the one seen in "Broken Bow," and yes, it looks like a powerdrill. If it's built around a specific model, I've yet to see anyone identify it.
Also - and this is the first time - we get to see that the light attachments on MACO rifles actually work.
Klingon beds have sheets?! Who does the laundry?
Is it too much to hope for that for once we see someone get the death they deserve? Like Malik or whatever his name is, dying in slow agony? No, what'll happen is he'll probably get shot or stabbed by Persis when he does one thing too outrageous even for her, like decide to kill Soong. He'll then just keel over with a pouty hurt look on his face, I can see it now. . . Far more interesting would be to have all the Augments wiped out by Archer while Soong watches unable to prevent it. I want Airlock Archer back, not cuddly Beanbag Archer (as my wife calls him).
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Hey, wasn't Dr. Lucas stationed on Denobula in the letters he sent to Phlox? Because it seems from this episode that Soong, Phlox and Lucas all know eachother from working at C-12...
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Yes, he was - but Phlox says in the ep that his last letter from Lucas said he had a new posting coming up but didn't say where. Phlox had never been to C-12, and didn't know Soong either. I also got the impression that Soong didn't know Lucas.
quote:Originally posted by Lee: I want Airlock Archer back, not cuddly Beanbag Archer (as my wife calls him).
BUT, does Airlock Archer still... fit?? I mean as a character - a person would he still have the same mentality - at the time he was in the Expanse with no answer and trying to save Earth from an unknown species building a weapon... somewhere. He needed answers or LOTS of people were going to die very, very soon.
I think a Captain still needs to be level headed and diplomatic at the best of times, that said - yes at the correct times, 'Airlock Archer' would be nice to see again.
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