Non-priority dangling plot points from episodes

[Captain Rob]

The Blink of an Eye aliens should have gone through millions of years by now. Did they destroy themselves, or did they become a technological supertopia?

Assuming they live at a rate 1000 times faster than us and lived for another 100 years of their time. They all died off about a month after Enterprise left. Dela said that the men were all sterile.
If Kirk was merciful he would have beamed down a box full of antidote before leaving.

 

[Timo]

That's "Wink", not "Blink". And indeed Kirk was not wasting a drop of mercy on the Scalosians.

Although the ending is ambiguous in other ways. What's with that "I accidentally put the tape in"/"That's no error" business?

What I took out of Kirk's "Goodbye, Deela" is that Kirk thinks the Scalosians are all dead already, and only the image lingers. So, no opening for showing mercy - this came and went while the heroes were still sorting out the damage.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Assuming they live at a rate 1000 times faster than us and lived for another 100 years of their time. They all died off about a month after Enterprise left. Dela said that the men were all sterile.
If Kirk was merciful he would have beamed down a box full of antidote before leaving.

Actually, BLINK of an eye was a Voyager episode. You’re thinking about WINK of an eye, from TOS.

 

[LJS1138]

Who sent the whale probes? I mean, those were totally unstoppable unless you put whales on your planet.

 

[Mister Spock]

Given they were never mentioned before or after, I wouldn't have minded seeing more of Marta Batanides and Cortan Zweller.

A quick Google shows they turn up in a few novels, but I found it more powerful in the recent Jean-Luc Picard autobiography which had them both killed at Wolf 359.

 

[Sgt_G]

Who sent the whale probes?

The same race that put whales on Earth in the first place.

 

[FormerLurker]

If Kirk was merciful he would have beamed down a box full of antidote before leaving.

I've been cogitating on this for a couple of days. I have to say, it would only be a mercy if a version of the antidote were dumped into the ecosystem to flush out the "speed-up" elements in the water on the entire planet, or one drink and they would all be back where they started. And then a full report to Starfleet Command to let them know what the warning buoy is for. After that, at some point down the road, an envoy could go there and begin negotiations with whoever is left to repopulate the planet, and possibly salvage the culture. But no matter what happens, the original Scalosian populace is done. They're effectively extinct.

 

[MAGolding]

The same race that put whales on Earth in the first place.

Everybody knows that whales evolved on Earth over millions of years. They weren't put there by aliens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans

Charles Darwin speculated that aquatic bears might have been the ancestors of whales, but the modern cetacean lineage is different.

 

[Sophie74656]

What happened to all the tribbles on the promenade?

 

[flandry84]

What of John Doe?
His race the Zalkonians seemed to be a pretty dangerous opponent.

 

[at Quark's]

What happened to all the tribbles on the promenade?

Perhaps they made a lovely stew? (But then, what did they do with all the hair?)

Why did Alice (psycho shuttle from Voyager) want to go to that particle fountain? (Declaring it 'home' doesn't say much, after all).

 

[tomalak301]

Did Kes ever make it home and what happened when she got there. It's from one of my least favorite episodes in Star Trek, but Voyager started with the Ocampa and I wonder if they do survive for a long time to be self sustaining.

 

[Sgt_G]

Everybody knows that whales evolved on Earth over millions of years. They weren't put there by aliens.

{sigh}

Everyone knows there aren't space probes looking for whales, either. Nor are there green-blooded hyper-logical humanoids with pointy ears or blue-skinned people with antenna growing out of their head.

It's call SCIENCE FICTION. Deal with it. Imagine for a moment, "What if? What if whales were put here by aliens from the far side of the Milky Way galaxy?"

{sigh}

 

[Nyotarules]

was recently reminded that we never got to find out whether Alicia Travers's life got better after Archer's Enterprise restored the history of 20th century Earth in "Storm Front". To my knowledge, not even any tie-in (non-canon) novels have addressed this point.

Alicia was living in an era where the US armed forces were fighting for freedom with racially segregated personnel. I think she swapped space bad guys for American ones. Good thing she was not living in the Jim Crow South.

 

[tomalak301]

{sigh}

Everyone knows there aren't space probes looking for whales, either. Nor are there green-blooded hyper-logical humanoids with pointy ears or blue-skinned people with antenna growing out of their head.

It's call SCIENCE FICTION. Deal with it. Imagine for a moment, "What if? What if whales were put here by aliens from the far side of the Milky Way galaxy?"

{sigh}

Speaking of that, what happened to George and Gracie. Gracie was pregnant so did that birth go well. Are there many humpback whales now, and did they even evolve into other kinds of whales? As Jeff Goldbloom said in Jurassic Park, life does find a way.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Not from an episode, but TUC. Why was the Romulan ambassador allowed to remain in the room during the discussion about a possible rescue of Kirk and McCoy? Were the Romulans on friendlier terms with the Federation at that point in time?

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[tomalak301]

Not from an episode, but TUC. Why was the Romulan ambassador allowed to remain in the room during the discussion about a possible rescue of Kirk and McCoy? Were the Romulans on friendlier terms with the Federation at that point in time?

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That scene is one of the big reasons I want a series set after that movie. I've always wondered what the romulan was even doing at that hearing. Was that the only time we saw a romulan ambassador on Earth soil in trek before the Defiant?

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

That scene is one of the big reasons I want a series set after that movie. I've always wondered what the romulan was even doing at that hearing. Was that the only time we saw a romulan ambassador on Earth soil in trek before the Defiant?

It was. In point of fact, it was one of a total of three instances (Saavik and the Romulans who died during “Homefront”) in which a Romulan was actually seen on Earth. It’s certainly understandable why the Romulans would want the Federation and the Klingons to remain at odds, but it’s hard to justify Ambassador Nanclus being part of a top-secret military discussion.

Sarek was also in the room, but he was a Federation citizen and a senior member of the UFP Diplomatic Corps. Nanclus was neither.

 

[tomalak301]

Saavik was a romulan? Is that in the books?

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Saavik was a romulan? Is that in the books?

Half-Romulan. A line about her heritage was shot but ultimately removed from the film.

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