On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:40:05 GMT, Blakes7@tic.toc wrote:
>It was an incredibly stupid plot point to travel all the way to Earth and
>just burn some graffiti on the surface to get them stirred up. It would
>have been tested somewhere else. And since in the Trek world, we know what
>a few ounces of anti-matter will do to a planet, a better plan would have
>been to send an unmanned probe with a litre of anti-matter, enter the
>atmosphere, and turn off the containment field. Poof...goodbye Earth.
I disagree. It made perfect sense, once we got to know the Xindi mindset.
The insectoids and reptilians were vehemently anti-humanoid; it made perfect
sense they would want the test directed at earth. The stupid part was being
so smugly arrogant to not care whether humanity had the capacity to
retaliate. As for the anti-matter bomb, it could simply be the Xindi
weren't aware of the military uses of anti-matter, or were aware, and
decided it was too risky. A containment breach enroute and thousands of xin
hours and who knows how much in resources are lost ..
Kweeg
Kweeg
