The Crystalline Entity

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-03-01 07:16pm

RedImperator wrote:If I recall that episode correctly, Picard excused the entity's actions by comparing it to an orca attacking a school of fish and eating thousands (I don't remember the type of fish). The episode was written so that the old lady scientist enraged by Picard comparing the death of her son and thousands of others to the death of some fish came off as the unreasonable one. Typical hippie shit.

Yes, let's not destroy an organism that could gobble up other federation citizens! Typical Picard brain fart.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2003-03-01 07:35pm

We all know what would have happened had the entity not been destroyed, they would have told the creature killing was wrong, the creature "well shucks, I never realised", Data would have then said "Captain we can provide the entity with his energy requirements for the year with a single pulse from the main deflector", Picard responds "make it so", technobabble works and the two part ways with promises to say in touch.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-01 08:01pm

TheDarkling wrote:We all know what would have happened had the entity not been destroyed, they would have told the creature killing was wrong, the creature "well shucks, I never realised", Data would have then said "Captain we can provide the entity with his energy requirements for the year with a single pulse from the main deflector", Picard responds "make it so", technobabble works and the two part ways with promises to say in touch.

Are you sure you've never written for Star Trek? You've just described every post-TOS encounter with a dangerous space monster.

Kirk, of course, would have shot and killed the fucking thing in the first five minutes of the episode, then slipped the high hard one to Yeoman Rand for the remaining forty..

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2003-03-01 08:17pm

Are you sure you've never written for Star Trek? You've just described every post-TOS encounter with a dangerous space monster.

No I have just watched enough to know what the outcome would be.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-03-01 11:56pm

Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Shinova wrote:I wonder if Picard had spoken to it, it may have gone away or something.
It may have, but it still needs to feed. It will just go kill someones elses people....

Either that, or after enduring ten minutes of one of Picard's moral sermons, the CE would have flown itself into the nearest sun.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-03-02 01:55am

RedImperator wrote:
TheDarkling wrote:We all know what would have happened had the entity not been destroyed, they would have told the creature killing was wrong, the creature "well shucks, I never realised", Data would have then said "Captain we can provide the entity with his energy requirements for the year with a single pulse from the main deflector", Picard responds "make it so", technobabble works and the two part ways with promises to say in touch.
Are you sure you've never written for Star Trek? You've just described every post-TOS encounter with a dangerous space monster.

Kirk, of course, would have shot and killed the fucking thing in the first five minutes of the episode, then slipped the high hard one to Yeoman Rand for the remaining forty..

1) Yeah, because god forbid it *might* be intelligent enough to work out a more reasonable deal (i.e., we give you energy, you don't go attacking colonies) that kept it alive for potential study.

2) Kirk did not get laid that often in TOS, despite popular belief to the contrary.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-03-02 02:16am

Uraniun235 wrote:
RedImperator wrote:
TheDarkling wrote:We all know what would have happened had the entity not been destroyed, they would have told the creature killing was wrong, the creature "well shucks, I never realised", Data would have then said "Captain we can provide the entity with his energy requirements for the year with a single pulse from the main deflector", Picard responds "make it so", technobabble works and the two part ways with promises to say in touch.
Are you sure you've never written for Star Trek? You've just described every post-TOS encounter with a dangerous space monster.

Kirk, of course, would have shot and killed the fucking thing in the first five minutes of the episode, then slipped the high hard one to Yeoman Rand for the remaining forty..
1) Yeah, because god forbid it *might* be intelligent enough to work out a more reasonable deal (i.e., we give you energy, you don't go attacking colonies) that kept it alive for potential study.

2) Kirk did not get laid that often in TOS, despite popular belief to the contrary.

That would be a huge bargin.......and when millions or billions of lives are at stake, I don't know if you could risk such a thing.

Most predators don't just kill for food, they kill for the thrill of the hunt. Example being a cat, you keep a cat well fed it will kill more animals....it won't eat them but it will kill them.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-02 08:23pm

Uraniun235 wrote:... god forbid it *might* be intelligent enough to work out a more reasonable deal (i.e., we give you energy, you don't go attacking colonies) that kept it alive for potential study.

The type of energy it prefers is living beings. It is a predator on a gigantic scale, and its appetites are vast. If pure energy would suffice, it could simply park next to a star and gorge itself, but it does not. Instead, it searches for organic life; this is a fairly specific dietary requirement.

Picard made the point that a whale is not evil for consuming planckton. Well, the writers missed the obvious rebuttal that the planckton would not be evil for trying to kill the whale if they could.