Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Feb 20, 2009 8:53:43 GMT -6
The Enterprise finds the wreckage of the cargo vessel Odin, lost seven years ago, and traces the escape pods to the planet "Angel One", which is dominated by women (it had been last contacted by the Federation some 60 years ago, and at that time had mid-20th century technology). The four surviving men from the Odin are considered "dangerous revolutionaries", and apparently all the resources of the government have failed to locate them. Meanwhile, on board the Enterprise, a virus contracted during a holodeck "field trip" is spreading like wildfire, incapacitating pretty much the entire crew. There is also mention of trouble around the Romulan Neutral Zone, so that both of these problems must be resolved quickly.
The first thing that bothers me about this episode is when Data explains that, since the crew of the Odin are not Starfleet members, they don't have to obey the Prime Directive! They are perfectly free to disrupt Angel One's culture if they like, and there is nothing the Enterprise can do to stop them. They can't even remove them from the planet if they don't want to go! This makes NO sense to me at all. How can the Prime Directive be so important that violating it brings the harshest penalties Starfleet has, and yet be completely unenforceable with respect to Federation civilians?
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Post by andrewlee on Feb 20, 2009 16:47:47 GMT -6
Atoz. This also bothered me about the Odin's crew not being bound by the prime directive!!! It doesn't make sense to me!! I would think that all Federation citizens would be required by law to abide by the prime directive!!!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Feb 23, 2009 8:50:25 GMT -6
If an unscrupulous individual like Harry Mudd were to set himself up as dictator on some primitive planet (like Gamma Trianguli VI, now that Vaal is deactivated), can we believe for one second that Starfleet would just let him? No way! Even in the Angel One situation, surely there are immigration laws, aren't there? Surely the government of a planet has some say in who is allowed to live there and who isn't? I don't know what Data and Yar were thinking, but they both must have been having an off day.
And on the "B story", about the virus that swept the ship -- how can you pick up a virus on a holodeck program? That had me scratching my head all through this episode!
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Post by Luke on Mar 4, 2009 11:47:05 GMT -6
I agree it doesnt make sense the Prime Directive not applying to nonStarfleet people. But the holodeck thing, maybe for realism, the holodeck included some real plant life from that planet, which accidentally had the virus in it?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 6, 2009 8:52:09 GMT -6
That's a good suggestion. Wesley said their ski instructor "arranged" the field trip. Maybe he had a plant from that planet, which somehow passed the biofilters of the transporter.
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Post by Luke on Mar 11, 2009 10:45:36 GMT -6
Or it could be they actually went to the planet in a shuttelcraft.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 13, 2009 7:46:21 GMT -6
Well, the scene shows them going into and coming out of a holodeck, but I suppose that's a possibility.
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