sonak wrote:
Robert Maxwell wrote:
sonak wrote:
OK, I guess you're right on that, I didn't remember that particular line. Still, doubling the life-span of your soldiers and adding to the pool of those who can serve by curing genetic problems and therefore greatly increasing the number of those available to serve in combat is still a huge advantage. Just because the war ended up being a short one doesn't mean it was inevitably going to be so.
You REALLY don't think a resource like this would be useful in a war lasting many years?
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For not appreciating accusations of neoconservatism, I find it interesting that you see the benefits of the particles mainly in terms of how they improve military capacity.  I'm sure a peaceful organization like the Federation is desperate to have soldiers with longer lifespans so they can, presumably, wage longer wars. |
I'm bringing this up because the events of the movie take place during a war, so of course the military application of it is relevant. |
And it is, as
Hartzilla2007 so astutely pointed out, an utterly worthless "advantage" given whom they were fighting.