Why Was Equinox So Bad?

[Sandoval]

Given today's petrol prices, anyone here who says that they wouldn't kill near-sentient lifeforms and liquefy them in order to fuel their car is a liar.

 

[Itachi]

Given today's petrol prices, anyone here who says that they wouldn't kill near-sentient lifeforms and liquefy them in order to fuel their car is a liar.

HA! a person with the same last name and has a quote that i would say myself... yup i like you

 

[Guy Gardener]

It was also eerily similar to BSG and Battlestar Pegasus (oddly, a RDM series), except of course for the fact that the Pegasus had an Admiral. The crew of Pegasus also took many moral liberties to survive. I wonder if Moore took cues from this Equinox when writing BSG.

The whole Pegasus dealy was a rehash from the original series in the 70s.

Back then Admiral Kane was played by Llyod bridges in a dinky little lando cape.

Voyager ripped off BSG first.

 

[zar]

Related: Nothing Human. Everyone spends an entire episode being uncomfortable about using medical knowledge that was gained through Cardassian torture. Then suddenly, Borg nanoprobes everywhere.

 

[Anwar]

Probably because in a series like Trek, where there is tons of medical tech that was the result of some kind of evil, they just didn't feel like rehashing it dozens of times and just wanted to get on with it.

 

[tighr]

The whole Pegasus dealy was a rehash from the original series in the 70s.

Yes, but the plotline of the Pegasus being morally corrupt was mostly a facet from the re-imagined series.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You've seen it right?

TOS Kane taking psychotic risks to win a war against the cylons the Colonies have already lost?


I suppose the NUBSG having their Kane practically sacrificing a civilian fleet for their engine parts and supplies was a little more Ransom than Kane, but the TOS Kane description above sounds a hell of a lot like Janeway Ahabbing Ransom.

 

[tighr]

You've seen it right?

I suppose the NUBSG having their Kane practically sacrificing a civilian fleet for their engine parts and supplies was a little more Ransom than Kane, but the TOS Kane description above sounds a hell of a lot like Janeway Ahabbing Ransom.

I was mostly referring to NuBSG's Kane shooting her XO in the head, the Pegasus "information officer" raping a cylon, Murdering the civilian fleets in cold blood and stealing their engineers/jump drives then abandoning them to the Cylons, and planning a sneak attack on the Galactica all because she was a bitch.

A little more graphic than the original BSG.

 

[Sandoval]

Should've gone the whole way and made Random an admiral with a more powerful ship than Voyager.

 

[Gary7]

Some people debate, others instigate.

 

[RandyS]

Ok, so the crew of the Equinox were killing 100s of creatures in order to shorten their journey home...

Now unless I am mistaken, they did not know that the creatures were sentient, they thought they were just like wolves, who attacked in response to the Equinox crew killing them...

Don't get me wrong I'm not condoning what they did, but Voyager attacked a Borg Sphere without provocation just a few episodes previous, in order to harvest a component to help them get home...in the process hundreds of Borg Drones died, but a Borg Drone is someone who has been enslaved to the will of the collective and who could be saved or else would not have died but for Voyager attacking them...

Why is one right but the other wrong?

Because life isn't black and white.

Because shit happens.

Because the writers made uyp stuff as they went along.

You name it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Life isn't Black and White?

Tell that to Loki of Cheron.

 

[Sandoval]

Life isn't Black and White?

Tell that to Loki of Cheron.

It don't matter if you're black or white.

That ironic song by the formally black Michael Jackson.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Artist Known as Breathing.

 

[Sandoval]

The Artist Known as Breathing.

Formally known as Breathing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Foiled by a misplaced punchline once again.

 

[Mayack419]

Equinox was awesome.

 

[Sandoval]

Equinox was awesome.

Nice thorough analysis there.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I suspect that if the Equinox crew really looked upon the aliens as nonsentient, then they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to hide their new propulsion and would have dangled it before the crew to get them to push Janeway to add it to her engine room.

 

[Guy Gardener]

But what if they weren't sentient? Or what if you didn't have to kill them to create fuel, say some waste product of natural emenation?

Mass Murder = Bad.

Slavery = Bad.

Animal control/herding = iffy.

Vermin control = Good.