Today "Way to Eden" on H&I.
As always, I wonder about the method of detecting the planet Eden, which apparently can not be detected directly at the distance of the other side of the Neutral Zone. The method of calculating the positions of unseen planets from the gravitational perturbations of known objects has been used to detect three planets in our solar system, Neptune, Pluto, and Vulcan - though it was actually accurate only for Neptune - and has been used to suggest the existence of Planet X.
But that method is used only at interplanetary distances, not interstellar distances which are tens of thousands or millions of times greater even for close star systems. Thus I assume that Federation starships have remotely scanned many star systems on the Romulan side of the Neutral Zone and have detected many large gas giant planets in those systems, but not smaller Earth sized planets. Spock and Chekov must have analyzed records of the orbits of those large gas giant planets in those systems to check for perturbations caused by smaller planets, and found one Earth sized planet in the habitable zone of its star that must be the planet Eden, reported from the time of the Romulan War, I guess.
And yesterday I watched "Requiem for Methuselah" and "1101001" on H&I.
I wonder why Kirk didn't send other landing parties to distant parts of the planet to search for Ryetalyn. He seemed to put all his eggs in one basket/landing party.
I noticed that McCoy checked for Rayna's pulse when she collapsed, and Flint said: "You can't die".
Dying is ceasing to live. Rayna is an android. Rayna didn't live in the sense of having biological functions, therefore she couldn't die in the sense of ceasing to have biological functions.
So maybe this was all part of Flint's plan to stimulate Rayna's emotions. Maybe Flint reactivated Rayna once the others left. I never believed that leaving the complex fields of Earth would cause Flint to age and die. If leaving Earth could do that to immortal Flint with his super healing abilities, it should have also caused millions of ordinary Earth colonists to die on other worlds. So Flint probably faked the tricorder readings.
I wonder if Flint somehow arranged for the outbreak of Rigelian fever on the
Enterprise as part of his plan. And I think that Flint probably gave Kirk a love potion somehow, so that Kirk would stimulate Rayna's emotions. That would make Kirk's behavior a lot more justified.
I wonder if Flint somehow has some sort of access to highly advanced alien technology, perhaps acquired from Kulkulkan, or the Greek Gods, or the Platonians when they were on Earth, to do what he does.
And I always like to try to figure out the layout of the room where Flint entertained Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
If Flint married a hundred times, either he was sterile or he had a bunch of children over the millennia from his various marriages. When one of Flint's wives died of old age, their children, if any, would probably be adults and able to take care of themselves, and Flint might possibly have given them land or money to support them before faking his death and leaving. But a lot of Flint's wives would have died young in medieval or ancient times. And Flint could have taken care of them until they were adults and then move on.
Or maybe Flint was a serial deadbeat dad, abandoning his children whenever his wife died. Or maybe Flint couldn't have children.
In "1101001", when the
Enterprise was at the planet Bynaus, Picard tapped his combadge and called:
PICARD: Starbase 74, this is the Enterprise. Do you read me?
And got in touch with Commander Quinteros and Data at Starbase 74 - which was in a different solar system. How far could the
Enterprise travel in the short time that Picard and Riker were distracted by Minuet, and how far did Starbase 74 have to be from Bynaus to be safe from a supernova in the Bynaus system?
So did Picard's combadge have the power to communicate over interstellar distances, or did the
Enterprise''s subspace radio amplify the combadge's signals to reach Starbase 74?
RIKER: Tell me what this is all about.
MINUET: A star in the Bynar system went supernova and they miscalculated. The electromagnetic pulse from the explosion was going to knock out their main computer.
PICARD: So their only choice was to transfer all the stored information and shut down until after it passed. And then reactivate their system and transfer the information back to this main computer.
RIKER: The Enterprise has the only mobile computer large enough to handle all that information.
PICARD: So what went wrong? Why are they dying?
MINUET: The star went supernova before it was expected, and you were late arriving at Starbase 74.
PICARD: Why didn't they say something? Why didn't they just ask for help?
I have to wonder why there is a planet Bynaus left at all if a star in the Bynar system went nova. Why were the Bynars worried about an electromagnetic pulse knocking out their main computer instead of their planet Bynaus being vaporized by the supernova?
And considering how rare supernovae are, it is surprising that Picard and Ricker didn't guess that it must have something to do with "the supernova predicted to explode soon in the Bynar system".
