JamesSmith
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What if Qo'noS blows up instead of Praxis in Star Trek VI?
What if Qo'noS blows up instead of Praxis in Star Trek VI?
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Then Qo'noS would have blown up instead of Praxis in Star Trek VI.
Seriously, I don't see how this impacts things, especially since Praxis's explosion was theoretically going to render Qo'noS uninhabitable anyway. Since you haven't asked any more specific questions, I'm not sure what you're looking for.
Seriously, I don't see how this impacts things, especially since Praxis's explosion was theoretically going to render Qo'noS uninhabitable anyway. Since you haven't asked any more specific questions, I'm not sure what you're looking for.
So if Klingons only had roughly 50 years to live after Praxis blew up, why are they ok in TNG timeframe?
Worf: "We do not speak of it!"
If that happened, it would sure make the parts of "Sins of the Father" and "Redemption" where Qo'nos is seen to be perfectly intact in the 24th Century a bit...confusing, wouldn't it?
And those are only the 24th century episodes set on Qo'nos that were produced before STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY came out.
And those are only the 24th century episodes set on Qo'nos that were produced before STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY came out.
Because the Federation helped them recover. That was kinda the point for the Klingons.
Yeah, that was pretty much the point of the whole movie.
What he^ said.
...right. I'm all for fan explanations and all that, but why create the problem in the first place?
The "Fifty years of life left" line is likely a probably outcome should the Federation decide not to help. I would guess that humanitarian missions, relief efforts, and environmental specialists were sent in after the treaty to help stabilize Qo'noS.
As for the OPs question, other then the mentioned episodes that were filmed prior to TUC, I'm not sure it would change much. They would have likely just moved the high council to another world.
In all honesty, I'm not even sure exactly why Praxis was a big issue. "Key energy production" aside, I don't understand how one single moon could make that big of an impact. Surely the Empire has other moons in their space? It's like saying there's excess could cover over a solar power plant, and the US is going to die off as a result.
As for the OPs question, other then the mentioned episodes that were filmed prior to TUC, I'm not sure it would change much. They would have likely just moved the high council to another world.
In all honesty, I'm not even sure exactly why Praxis was a big issue. "Key energy production" aside, I don't understand how one single moon could make that big of an impact. Surely the Empire has other moons in their space? It's like saying there's excess could cover over a solar power plant, and the US is going to die off as a result.
I have a feeling if our moon exploded people would be pretty upset about it, and we don't even rely on it for energy production. 
Actually, that happens in the remake of "The Time Machine" and as far as humans are concerned Earth doesn't recover anytime soon. That kind of science isn't particularly my strong suit, so I can't speak to the realism of it, but the point is that it seems a moon exploding under the best of circumstances is a catastrophic event.
Actually, that happens in the remake of "The Time Machine" and as far as humans are concerned Earth doesn't recover anytime soon. That kind of science isn't particularly my strong suit, so I can't speak to the realism of it, but the point is that it seems a moon exploding under the best of circumstances is a catastrophic event.
If Qo'noS had blown up, I think a civil war would have started between various factions seeking to take control of the empire since the military/political leadership would be dead.
I have a feeling if our moon exploded people would be pretty upset about it, and we don't even rely on it for energy production.
Yeah, but we aren't an interstellar empire.
Even in the 23rd century, you'd expect the Klingons to have at least a couple of dozen advanced colony worlds, various subjugated species, etc. - they'd need this sort of scale to keep up with a Federation of dozens of members (in that era) plus hundreds of colonies, surely.
Given how war-minded the Klingons are, surely they would spread their population and industry around their Empire as much as possible, expecting that planets and solar systems might be temporarily lost in the course of war? It's not like there's a shortage of M class worlds in the Star Trek universe - there seem to be plenty uninhabited and just sitting around the galaxy.
It seems crazy that the loss of the homeworld would cause total collapse. Serious problems, sure, and massive economic and political turmoil (Quo'nos being the seat of government, where most of the major houses live, etc.), but if it's capable of destroying an entire interstellar empire, someone has been doing some poor strategic planning...
If we assume that Federation-Klingon relations prior to the Praxis incident were going reasonably well (there didn't seem to be an imminent threat of war), then even if the Praxis explosion was a relatively minor setback to the Empire as a whole it could be considered a crisis if it threatened to put a radical branch of the Klingon government, one likely to destabilize relations with the Federation, in power.
On a global scale, the 9/11 attacks were a relatively minor incident...it's what it symbolized and what resulted from it that made it what it's become.
NOTE - I'm not trying to downplay 9/11. As someone with friends and relatives who live and work in NYC, I would never do that.
On a global scale, the 9/11 attacks were a relatively minor incident...it's what it symbolized and what resulted from it that made it what it's become.
NOTE - I'm not trying to downplay 9/11. As someone with friends and relatives who live and work in NYC, I would never do that.
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