Could Neelix' colony join the federation?
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Who says living on "actual planets" is safe? Have you seen the news from Japan lately? You can build a pretty good civilization in an asteroid belt.
Was Neelix "officially" granted Federation Ambassadorial status by the President or was it just a de facto thing by Captain Janeway? If he was, then technically that asteroid colony is a Federation Embassy and as such is fully under the protection of the Federation and Starfleet.
You're not going to feel secure until we've gotten off this rock, are you?
Betelgeusians, Rianconi, Vostigye...I've noticed there's a strong anti-planetary stance in many of your characters...
^Also the Voth, who canonically live in city-ships.
I'm just a big fan of Gerard K. O'Neill's book The High Frontier, and I realize that ST tends to overlook the great potential of inhabiting and mining asteroids or building artificial habitats. A civilization in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter could potentially build enough habitats to hold as many people as a hundred Earths. And recent estimates suggest that the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit are at least as numerous as the Belt asteroids, and that the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune is far more abundantly populated than both of those combined. So ST has far too much of a planetary bias to be realistic for spacegoing civilizations, and I've just tried to balance that out.
Although this actually goes back to my first published story, "Aggravated Vehicular Genocide", featuring a spacefaring civilization that did indeed have "a strong anti-planetary stance" extending to prejudice against planet-dwellers. Although that was before I read The High Frontier. My intention there was just to deal with the Fermi Paradox, the question of why, if these advanced aliens had been around in our neck of the galactic woods for over ten millennia, they'd never visited or settled Earth. A bias against planetary habitation gave me an answer, as well as a complication for the story.
I'm just a big fan of Gerard K. O'Neill's book The High Frontier, and I realize that ST tends to overlook the great potential of inhabiting and mining asteroids or building artificial habitats. A civilization in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter could potentially build enough habitats to hold as many people as a hundred Earths. And recent estimates suggest that the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit are at least as numerous as the Belt asteroids, and that the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune is far more abundantly populated than both of those combined. So ST has far too much of a planetary bias to be realistic for spacegoing civilizations, and I've just tried to balance that out.
Although this actually goes back to my first published story, "Aggravated Vehicular Genocide", featuring a spacefaring civilization that did indeed have "a strong anti-planetary stance" extending to prejudice against planet-dwellers. Although that was before I read The High Frontier. My intention there was just to deal with the Fermi Paradox, the question of why, if these advanced aliens had been around in our neck of the galactic woods for over ten millennia, they'd never visited or settled Earth. A bias against planetary habitation gave me an answer, as well as a complication for the story.
Calm down mate, it's called humor, no need to get agressive, I was asking a theoretical and then cracked an obvious joke later in the thread.
I have the utmost respect for the writers who come on this board, and would never intentionally insult them.
Congrats, you are my first telling off in 3 years on this site, If David Mack or someone said the same thing I would be pretty upset right now, but coming from you I think I can handle it.
"Re-take Talax"?
Wasn't the planet pretty much rendered uninhabitable by the Metreon Cascade?
Wasn't the planet pretty much rendered uninhabitable by the Metreon Cascade?
^ No, just one of its moons. Rinax.
FWIW, I'd think the Talaxians would be shoe-ins, just based on what we know of them. They're just Good People. Kinda like Bolians.
God knows I'm not. Getting the hell away from here is what drew me to SF to begin with.You're not going to feel secure until we've gotten off this rock, are you?
Neelix
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Barrier
Please spell check, please.
The galactic barrier is questionable.
I do what I can!
http://www.star-trek-voyager.net/stsc/voyager_route2377.htm
This shows the approximate location!
http://www.star-trek-voyager.net/stsc/voyager_route2377.htm
This shows the approximate location!
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