On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:16:51 -0400, George Peatty
<peattyg47-1230@copper.net> wrote:
>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 ..
It would be foolish to waste resources sending an untested weapon.
After all, America nuked itself many times before it nuked Japan.
Yet another grand gesture that makes no sense...that's why Enterprise
sucked so bad until the last year. All shock/no respect for the
subject.
Yeah, makes as much sense as walking into a bank, waving a gun,
shooting a guard, and shouting how this is just a test, you will be
back next week at the same time to REALLY rob the place...you didn't
have to drag your weapon all the way to earth to test it.
It's as silly as Earth sending a giant can of Raid to kill the
insectoids.
What really pisses me off about the whole plot was the whole poke and
giggle nature of it. If you are going to kill a civilization, do it.
I also hate stories where everyone around the hero gets killed but the
hero survives...not because the hero is stronger/better/nicer but
because the story would end if the hero died. What tripe. Like that
popular fiction in Japan where Japan wins World War 2. Childish.
In real life, the enemy would have arrived, with multiple weapons and
the earth would have been destroyed. No God or luck or whatever would
have protected it. The only reason it wasn't was so the series could
go on. That sucks as a plot point. Cop out. Don't present a
scenario and then cop out. Best to go with another story instead.
It's like knowing the star will never get killed or that the season
finale will be a cliffhanger. But then, so much of modern stories
are frustrating and annoying like Battlestar Galactica and Lost. The
producer and audience play S&M.
Kweeg
Kweeg
