When exactly in previous stories would anything remotely like this have come up?
Spoilers The Mandalorian season 2 discussion
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I've never heard of a situation like this until now.
This is the first time I've heard of this excuse used in any franchise (ST or SW).
People late in pregnancy aren't supposed to fly, which I'd assume was the inspiration for this complication. On Doctor Who, Amy Pond was concerned that traveling in the TARDIS while pregnant might cause her baby to be born with a "time-head" or something (which, in fact, did happen). On Star Trek we've heard of aliens and materials that would be hurt or damaged by going through a transporter.
Hyperspace travel exposing people to radiation or some other stress which is normally harmless, but can be dangerous to eggs, fetuses, or, I suppose, the very ill, isn't completely unreasonable.
I've heard about those recommendations, but what's the medical reasoning behind it?
I don't remember that, I thought it was mostly personal phobia's about transporters that gave the individual the right to go via Shuttle Craft over Transporter. Can you remind me about which scenes had that? The only thing I remember was Anti-Matter being non-Transportable, but other than that.
Aren't the ships shielded from radiation?
No, you're missing the point: when have we ever in previous stories seen ANY amphibious species with a jar full of unfertilized spawn needing transport between planets? Not being able to use hyperspace is not a contrived plot device if there's no precedent. They're allowed to make shit like this up.
On the other hand...the only other person we know of that used hyperspace while heavily pregnant died in childbirth after. So there's that.
I always thought they just didn't want to have a birth during a flight..........not an actual medical reason just a logistical reason.
Blood clots. Sitting for a long period of time can cause deep-vein thrombosis, which is exacerbated by pregnancy and the conditions in an airliner's cabin. And, as with everything during pregnancy, anything going wrong has a higher risk of going catastrophically wrong, so risks that are normally acceptable are made inadvisable.
In "The Host," the first Trill we see refused to be beamed, presumably for health reasons.
That doesn't mean they stop all of it, just enough of it. Airline workers and astronauts still get notable cumulative exposure to radiation from spending so much time above the ozone layer.
It's entirely possible that the eggs *could* have been fine, or even quiet probably fine going through a hyperjump...but there would still be a small chance (say one in a thousand) that the dimensional shift could sever a few strands of DNA in the nuclei which is mostly harmless to a large living multicellular organism, but would render the eggs either non-viable for fertilization, or potentially result in catastrophic mutations.
As was stressed, this is the last clutch she's biologically capable of spawning and as such these eggs are the end of her bloodline (not sure if that means the whole species, or just her family/clan.) That one in one thousand chance is not worth taking when the stakes are THAT high and the consequences of failure THAT dire.
As was stressed, this is the last clutch she's biologically capable of spawning and as such these eggs are the end of her bloodline (not sure if that means the whole species, or just her family/clan.) That one in one thousand chance is not worth taking when the stakes are THAT high and the consequences of failure THAT dire.
From Collider-- "Baby Yoda devoured a woman's children and we need to talk about it."
https://collider.com/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-2-baby-yoda-eating-eggs/
https://collider.com/the-mandalorian-season-2-episode-2-baby-yoda-eating-eggs/
But your argument boiled down to "why do you care, it's fake?"
Which is, I'm sorry to say, a dumb argument which suggests we shouldn't bother engaging emotionally with the stories we like at all, since they're not real.
I think that's a terrible argument and I don't think you actually believe it.
Also ate that live ice spider when he saw it.
I wonder if this compulsion to eat live creatures is ever going to be explained. Maybe Yoda's race consumes life in the early years as a way to tune in with the force (a rather creepy trait).
Star Wars has always had a streak of morbid dark comedy running through it. Hell this episode starts with a comedic death via jetpack but nobody raises a fuss due to the schadenfreude.
It may even be that this species is inherently vicious, and Yoda was very much an outlier. Hell, for all we know one of these founded the Sith Order!
As mentioned above, Yoda and little Frogwai's species has clearly carnivorous and even predatory traits. He's acting not differently than one might expect a cat to act if you leave live rodent young where they can get at them.
It may even be that this species is inherently vicious, and Yoda was very much an outlier. Hell, for all we know one of these founded the Sith Order!
The latest episode was easy the weakest in the series so far, outside of the first 5 to 10 minutes with the X-Wing Pilots running into him which was fun, but every show has a few weak episodes. Hopefully next week the shows backtoo being as strong as it usually is
Maybe I'm wrong, but by my read Leia doesn't seem to think that's the case. When she explains why they are going to Crait, she says that "Holdo knew the First Order was tracking our big ship." But they didn't know they were being tracked at all until they came out of lightspeed. So the decision was made to stop before the reason for going to Crait was learned.
The thing is, at that point absolutely no one on either side acts like they're in the Crait system, or any system really. Poe may not have been let in on the plan, but in theory he should have access to the same onboard instrumentation as anyone else on the ship, and he has no idea they're in the vicinity of a planet - or its primary - until Leia points out Crait's huge visible disk right outside the window. The same goes for the FO ( but in their case it's usually chalked up to "they're hilariously incompetent" or "they're sadists" or "all of the above" ).
