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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 30-6-2017 om 15:40 schreef Ubiquitous:   
   > anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   >> Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   >>> Op 29-6-2017 om 22:01 schreef anim8rfsk:   
   >>>>  Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   >>>>> Op 28-6-2017 om 23:16 schreef anim8rfsk:   
      
      
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How can you not take a biosample from a planet with the transporter?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Why does Picard assign the incompetent doctor to design a computer   
   >>>>>> program to find the missing fragment?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Why does a lifeless planet having once had an ocean mean it once   
   >>>>>> supported life?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How did the Kardashians go to the wrong planet, figure out it was the   
   >>>>>> wrong planet, through some mysterious mechanism figure out what the   
   >>>>>> right planet is, and get there 30 seconds after the Enterprise?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How come the ancient alien is one of Odo's people?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Bad luck?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Okay, the final answer is - there's a bunch of fragments from a bunch of   
   >>>>>> worlds, and it's totally unclear how many, much less who is included and   
   >>>>>> who is not.  But apparently Kardashians, Romulans, and Earthers are   
   >>>>>> related, and presumably all humanoids in 'this part of the galaxy' are,   
   >>>>>> which doesn't explain all the humanoids over there in the Delta   
   quadrant.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> God this is a lousy show.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Extremely bad science. That's not how it works.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The Preservers as an explanation was much cooler for human types across   
   >>>>> the galaxy. Parallel evolution would be slightly more plausible.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yep.  We already had the Preservers and Sargon's people.  And whoever   
   >>>> the Hell built Miri's planet, which looks just like Earth, but is   
   >>>> *older*  There was no reason for this stupid crap episode at all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> One of my reference books (forgot which one, maybe 'Worlds of the   
   >>> Federation'?), speculated that Earth's solar system went through some   
   >>> gigantic cosmic replicator (or something like that), resulting in that   
   >>> Earth duplicate in 'Miri'.   
   >>   
   >> THE SHAT got into it a little bit in his Trek books.  The big problem   
   >> and inescapable conclusion is that given that the Miri world is like 100   
   >> years older than Earth, there's just no way that Earth is the original!   
   >   
   > Say what?   
   > One hundred years is pretty insignificant compared to the age of a planet.   
   >   
      
   Plus, there also could have been a time warp or something.   
      
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