I wish they sent Picard or Sisko back to Ardana

[Timo]

It shouldn't be difficult for the Ardanans to rally a few other UFP members to their cause, though, by pointing out that interference in the Stratosian/Troglyte affair would be direct precedent for stopping gay marriage on Luna or banning free elections on Arcturus.

The Feds would then be the ones arguing that they're giving Ardana "special treatment" because of the specific issue at hand rather than because the established procedure calls for it. Which ought to worry quite a few people into making damn sure that the procedure watertightly protects their own worlds, thus helping protect Ardana as well.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[T'Girl]

Spend a couple of second think about this, what exactly did Ardana's local government do wrong, that the Federation would step in and change things?

Mistreatment of a prisoner who was committing acts that would result in the destruction of a nearby planet's eco-system?
Having a upper management class, a lower working class and perhaps a middle class too?
Not building large enough "floating" city to accommodate the entire population?

Stratos, the floating city, reminds me somewhat of the city of Boston's Beacon Hill, that where the wealthy have their homes and the location of the Massachusetts government. I don't believe large numbers of miners have ever lived there.

Is the Federation going to somehow force the Ardana government to have a single economic and social class, how would that work? Is the Federation going to rotate the entire Ardana population through the mines? Despite Droxine's personal whim of going to work in the mines (she likely wouldn't last long), if the planet's government tried to force the citizens into the mines, the government would fall.

Is Ardana the only world in the 23rd century Federation to possess a working class?

 

[Robert DeSoto]

Spend a couple of second think about this, what exactly did Ardana's local government do wrong, that the Federation would step in and change things?

Mistreatment of a prisoner who was committing acts that would result in the destruction of a nearby planet's eco-system?
Having a upper management class, a lower working class and perhaps a middle class too?
Not building large enough "floating" city to accommodate the entire population?

Stratos, the floating city, reminds me somewhat of the city of Boston's Beacon Hill, that where the wealthy have their homes and the location of the Massachusetts government. I don't believe large numbers of miners have ever lived there.

Is the Federation going to somehow force the Ardana government to have a single economic and social class, how would that work? Is the Federation going to rotate the entire Ardana population through the mines? Despite Droxine's personal whim of going to work in the mines (she likely wouldn't last long), if the planet's government tried to force the citizens into the mines, the government would fall.

Is Ardana the only world in the 23rd century Federation to possess a working class?

This is not a working class like you have in the US. In theory, anyone in the working class can start their own business, or invent something and become a millionaire. (In reality, its not very likely, but it happens to a few lucky ones). On Ardana, the Troglytes aren't even allowed to step foot in the sky city.

 

[T'Girl]

It's like a Beverly Hills mansion, I might mow the grass or wash the laundry, but I'm unlikely to live there.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Come and listen to a story 'bout a Trog named Jed
Poor miner man barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was shooting for some food,
And up through the ground come a bubbling crude
(Zenite that is, grey gold, Ardana tea)

Well the first thing you know old Jed's a millionaire
Kin folk said Jed move away from there
Said up in the Sky is the place you oughta be
So they loaded up the tranport and they moved to Cloud City
(Stratos that is, intellect...snobbery)

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Oh yeah, the city in the clouds.

MUST. RESIST. STAR WARS. JOKE!!!!!