WYLB Questions

[Therin of Andor]

I read somewhere that it was that they refused to pay Farrel for her scenes used in the montage and, for that, she denied them the rights to her likeness.

Not quite.

Her agent had not been informed that her contribution was being used in a previous Season Seven episode (was it voice only, or image as well? in an Ezri/Worf episode) and they'd had to proceed to arbitration to get that matter of royalties owed resolved. Because of the pending judgment, the producers were unable to even ask about using more footage in the final episode. However, Terry Farrell was invited to the wrap party and did attend. She didn't deny them the use of the footage, but they forgot to ask first for the previous blunder.

This story comes via Richard Arnold, so some will choose not to believe his interpretation of events.

 

[DevilEyes]

theoretically, you could even kill just one person and still be guilty of genocide, if you did it out of the intent of wiping out the entire group of people.

Well, if Chingachgook is waging war on me, I still think it's okay to off him.

Sure, if you're doing it in self-defense, and not because you think the Mohicans should be wiped out. Just like with attempted murder, it's the intent that matters, not just the consequence.

 

[Myasishchev]

I have a WYLB question, that just occurred to me (I already know my answer but wonder what other people think):

Without the surrender of the Dominion (for whatever reason, love, genocide, boredom, whatever) at Cardassia Prime, would or could the Dominion and Breen continued the fight effectively from Breen Confederacy territory? I also wonder if non-canon stuff mentions any fighting on a "Breen Front" that seems like a reasonable extrapolation from the state of war, but doesn't get mentioned on the screen.

 

[Timo]

The Breen were mentioned as having preyed on UFP assets in "Hero Worship", and were one of the usual suspects in ST:GEN, so one would assume they had some corner of space where they could be in conflict with the Feds. The Star Charts reflect this idea, even though the exact placement of Breen space is conjecture that cannot be satisfactorily derived from the onscreen maps.

Since the Breen only took part in two known fights, the raid on Earth and the Chin'toka ambush, I doubt there was time for a "Breen front" to develop. If the Breen could be ignored in the earlier Cardassian-Klingon war, they would probably have been sitting somewhere behind the lines - so they could have been a good place for the Dominion to retreat, in theory. But a retreating Dominion would have been in too weak a position to afford the loyalty of the Breen...

Since we don't know what lies beyond Breen territory, we could equally well argue that it would have been a perfect base for relaunching an offensive, or a desperate last refuge where Dominion's back would have been against some infernal wall such as another malevolent empire.

Timo Saloniemi