Huh? Either you live in Canada or you don't. I have no idea what you mean by "the European equivalent thereto".
All I need is a country that's somewhat subtropical and somewhat stretched north-south to have the four distinct seasons. I have that. (Basically, what I have is Ontario, with a smidgen of Winnipeg depending on the year.)
Try telling an unspayed cat to ignore her natural rhythms. You have three choices, if you want to keep the cat: Extreme levels of tolerance for days of screaming and howling, a very good set of earplugs, or just get the cat spayed.
It's fortunate that there's no feline annual natural rhythm to worry about, then.
Is there a domestic animal that would suffer from the elimination of the 365 day year? We've done such perverse things with, say, cows that I'd rather think the sky is no limit there.
[quiote]Don't presume to tell me that I can just ignore the natural rhythms of the seasons I grew up with.[/quote]
Why not? There are people who think they can't live without going to opera every Saturday. But that's not a biological imperative, and neither is your seasonal snobbery.
Starfleet would stamp hard on snobbery anyway. But if a colonist wanted to settle on Planet Y that had a year 222 days long, I'm sure he, too, would sneer at his former neighbors on Planet X for thinking they cannot survive if the year has fewer than 444 days.
I've honestly found it mind-croggling to see people on the forum post that they've never seen leaves change in the fall, or that they've never experienced snow.
The latter is a very real threat anywhere south of Svalbard soon enough... I'll grieve when (not if) that happens in Europe, but at least I can take a jet holiday farther north and thus help make sure the snow eventually disappears from there, too.
Not sure what it has to do with moving to California.
Well, that's rather relevant to everything in Star Trek. Or used to be, before replaced by "moving to Vancouver". Did we ever see seasons outside Earth?
- The fall on Caldos in "Sub Rosa" probably counts - trees can't be like that permanently. Unless specifically engineered to, I guess. (Perhaps some colonies arrange for eternal afternoons, too?)
- Snow in general has been for "ice planets", which is sort of the opposite of seasons.
- Bajor could be supposed to have seasons, but despite our seven-year residence we never see this. If the surroundings look different, we're simply at a different spot on the planet.
- Vulcan looks different every time we visit. They probably pity us humans for having such indistinct seasons.
Beyond that, it's just verbal mentions of monsoon seasons or whatnot. Alas. But perhaps the new shooting locations will finally change that?
Timo Saloniemi
