Operation Annihilate

[Trekfan12]

How does the bright sunlight get into a person's body to kill the organisms inside the body?

Perhaps the same way that Vitamin D works better in the body when you're exposed to sunlight

 

[UnknownSample]

So, I guess it's X-rays or gamma rays, or maybe a high-frequency UV. This makes Bones look really stupid. If that first guy who crashed into the sun was cured by the solar radiation, it would have to be radiation that penetrates the ship and human tissue. Clearly, the blinding white light was not needed from the very first.

Well, it's the usual problems with some sci-fi, It's more fi than sci, and a lack of deep thinking by the writers.

There's very little that's completely opaque, even to visible light, if it's bright enough.

 

[Steven P Bastien]

Point taken. I think that is true enough for human tissue. Although a metal hull is very effective at blocking visible light. But there could have been a window.

 

[Timo]

...And that's my point - there probably would be a window for visible light, but certainly not for anything else.

What liberated the sap in the teaser must have been something that is not fatal to humans, even at relatively high intensity, exactly because it was something his spacecraft let in. Turns out it was something in the UV band, but clearly not for the ionizing properties of that radiation (because that's lethal to the host first and foremost) - but, rather, for some less direct quality of that light.

Timo Saloniemi