Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies”
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies”
Logline
A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.
Written by: Jamie Loftus
Directed by: Megan Lloyd
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Betazed intelligence? That makes sense. There has surely been a thread or two asking why that wasn't a thing.
Laughed out loud at the disappointed Romulans. It was cheap, but I still adored it.
At some point, I'd like to see a gag about how the Romulans seem to hang out in the Neutral Zone all the time.
They don't hang out. They lurk.
They better enjoy it while they can, their planet's gonna be destroyed in just 6 years.
I think there is a fan theory that Romulan space is pretty small (relatively speaking), which is how they're able to defend it well with a small number of ships. Which also explains why they're not able to have enough ships to evacuate Romulus.
I think people tend to underestimate what's required to evacuate a planetary population. That's billions of people! The 24th century we see might have some massive passenger transport that could hold, say, 10000 passengers. You'd need hundreds of thousands of ships that size to evacuate the whole planet. And the logistics would be a nightmare's nightmare. A ship that size probably doesn't make planetfall. How do you get them loaded? Think about how long it takes to get a widebody jet boarded - maybe 500 people at most. What about the quadriplegics? What about the bedridden? What about the pets? Etc. etc. etc.
You could hold a lot of people in buffer.
True. Unfortunately, holding people in the transport buffer is one of those things you have to entirely forget exists if you want to tell certain stories. The transporter in general could trivialise a lot of story beats.
wouldn't the Romulans entering the neutral zone also be an act of war, though? that's kinda the point of a neutral zone -- neither side can enter.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it...