Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:39:29 -0600
From: Terrafamilia <terrafamilia@irtc.net>
> I thought that this was a good in depth character
> portrayal of T'Pol. We're finally beginning to see
> pieces of what makes her Vulcan psyche "tic".
> Marriage can be a scary thing know matter how much
> one wants to or does not want to go through with it.
> For T'Pol and the Vulcan culture, marriages have
> been a bit interesting to say the least. For being a
> logical race, they do still have an archaic method
> of arranging marriages.
Perhaps they don't think of it as illogical at all. Arranged marriages
are still practiced these days in some cultures and many of the young
people you go through them are pleased with the result. It depends on
how good the parents are in selecting partners for their children.
After all, marriage is too important a thing to be left up to two people
who happen to be in LUV. *That* would be quite illogical. Arranging
marriages years in advance is where the problems lie.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:53:20 -0600
From: rem642b@Yahoo.Com
I was very displeased with the lack of realism in this episode.
These people were pretending to be walking on the surface of
a comet about 500 miles in diameter, less than one tenth the
diameter of the Earth, right? I estimate gravity would be
about 1/50 of Earth normal on the surface, so if they drop
something, or trip and fall, it should take about a minute
for them to build up speed to fall just a few feet. If they
lift up their feet, they would hover for about a minute
before finally bumping their butts gently on the surface. If
they try to take even a very light step, they would float
upward quite a ways before landing again. Yet the episode
showed them walking in 100% of Earth normal gravity, falling
just as fast as on Earth, totally absurd!!
There should be no significant atmosphere, just a hard
vacuum by Earth standards. Debris and vapor from an
explosion should simply move away without any impediment,
certainly no billowing clouds. Yet billowing clouds were
shown, totally absurd!
It takes energy from the nearby star quite a while to heat
the surface then for that heat build-up to penetrate down
deeper. Most of what happens to ice or snow on a comet's
surface is simply sublimation of whatever gets immediately
heated and there's no leftover heat to penetrate down at
all, yet the episode showed the lower material to weaken
almost immediately from sunlight exposure at the surface,
causing surface layers to collapse and fall, totally absurd!
If a comet has been around the star already, all the surface
frozen-water has been sublimated, leaving mostly dark
(coal-black) carbon compounds covering the surface. The
people in their suits working on the surface, and their
equipment with them, should be the only non-black visible on
a dark background, yet the episode showed the surface
composed of rather clean white ice, totally absurd.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:53:51 -0600
From: Mitsy6666 <mitsy6666@my-deja.com>>
> >It was funny watching
> > Trip explain how the toilets work. So where's the
> > school kid question about where the restrooms are??
> >I wonder how Trip got those school kid drawings?
> > Some special sub-space radio transmitter?
I figured they were sent via an interstellar fax -- in color. A few
years ago, space artist Robert McCall mentioned satellite faxes as
being possible soon. Maybe it's even being done by now.
The question about toilets made me wonder how sewage on earth will be
treated in Enterprise's time frame. Will it still be dumped into
oceans and rivers? Will compost toilets be the thing? Or will there be
Ecotopian septic tanks?