Omicron Ceti III Cure-all...

[Farscape One]

It has been some time since I have seen "THIS SIDE OF PARADISE", so I may be off a bit in this analysis.

The Federation basically has a medical cure-all at Omicron Ceti III. Have the spores do their thing, let the inhabitants have the effects for a few hours to be sure it took hold, and sonic them out of the mindless bliss. Boom... you just took care of all that person's illnesses. You even gave them a new appendix, if it was already gone.

The transporter has been shown to also be a fountain of youth (by either making you a child or deaging you from being an old woman or man), though it took extreme circumstances to do either. Here, it's a ready made planet without the need for convoluted spatial anomalies or genetically enhanced immune systens to kickstart the process.

So why don't Federation citizens take advantage of this?

Only thing I can figure is the mission was kept secret and Starfleet put a hazard warning around the planet due to the Berthold Rays. Or am I missing something?


Temba, his arms open.

 

[Oddish]

Planet Baku has the same properties. Even if it's not allowed to boot the Baku, what's to stop more people from just settling down there as well... the Baku are 600 people, and a well managed planet should be able to hold 5 million times that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe they're designated Section 31 rejuvenation sites.

 

[Qonundrum]

The antics in acquiring the wacky Baku planet's effects were proven to be a total waste of time, as Geordi's donning his implants again in "Nemesis". It's bad enough when the movie is loaded with problems, but - to add insult to injury - NEM either pretends the previous movie's largest focal point of ostensible importance didn't happen*, or it merely shows (rather than tells) what was hypothesized briefly in INS that the effects would not be permanent. By Geordi as well, go figure**.


* just like with Data's emotion chip, surely the pinnacle of the TNG films***, of which there's no mention of. Can't blame them, every post-GEN flick makes a completely different case as to its functionality when otherwise not treated as an albatross or dropped anchor...

** on the flip side, deliberately scripted or not, it adds a genuine layer of tragedy for Geordi

*** or maybe not...

 

[Qonundrum]

Also, why wouldn't the Federation look up "Unnatural Selection" and the transporters, or any other TNG episode using those as a health cure (didn't Genesis also use them as a crutch? And the season 6 where Barclay finds microbes while spazzing in the beam?) for various ailments, particularly if it's DNA-related? Couldn't they take the state of the memories, since those can be wiped out with ease, and merge the shiny young firm body with the centuries of thoughts and experiences?

Indeed, Starfleet could tell Doctor Frankenstein "Hold my beer" "hold my beer factory"...

 

[Oddish]

The antics in acquiring the wacky Baku planet's effects were proven to be a total waste of time, as Geordi's donning his implants again in "Nemesis". It's bad enough when the movie is loaded with problems, but - to add insult to injury - NEM either pretends the previous movie's largest focal point of ostensible importance didn't happen*, or it merely shows (rather than tells) what was hypothesized briefly in INS that the effects would not be permanent. By Geordi as well, go figure**.

Another reason why "Insurrection" should have been the last TNG movie.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

The Federation basically has a medical cure-all at Omicron Ceti III. Have the spores do their thing, let the inhabitants have the effects for a few hours to be sure it took hold, and sonic them out of the mindless bliss. Boom... you just took care of all that person's illnesses. You even gave them a new appendix, if it was already gone.

They could have just sent Picard there in the Ol'Academy Days to sort his heart out. Nog's leg as well, plus some 'high' time might help him work through his PTSD. Two birds one stone.

Indeed. Why don't they? Or why doesn't one of the other powers? You'd think the Ferengi would be in there charging for it somehow.