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When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.


Written by Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Maja Vrvilo

  • @Zoboomafoo
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    1 year ago

    Agreed, the entire saucer section was on the Federation side of the line of demarcation, they could have openly had rescue teams checking for survivors

    • @JohnnyDelirious@startrek.website
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      21 year ago

      Which does raise the question of why there was a Gorn aboard the wreck of the Cayuga.

      The Gorn drew up the demarcation line and broadcast it to the Federation, held their fire as promised, and did not consider the arrival of another Gorn ship as a hostile action.

      So the Enterprise sending a shuttle to check the parts of the Cayuga’s wreckage for survivors is something that appears permitted and even expected, so long as it doesn’t cross the line.

      But any such rescue party would then bump into this lone Gorn who was very clearly violating the demarcation line that they themselves proposed.

      Sort of feels like the attack on the colony was unplanned, and that the later Gorn ship was playing damage control while trying to figure out what happened.

      • @Zoboomafoo
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        31 year ago

        Sort of feels like the attack on the colony was unplanned, and that the later Gorn ship was playing damage control while trying to figure out what happened.

        That’s consistent with what they theorized regarding the solar flares causing the first ship to attack the colony.

        That’s the best explanation I’ve heard, and I’m going to stick with it until a better one comes along

        • Tom Riley
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          21 year ago

          @JohnnyDelirious @Zoboomafoo One moment Spok is frantically trying to find Chapel on the Kayuga, but then doesn’t even mention survivors when they plan to crash it. It’s too much of a stretch. There must be some key plot here they deliberately didn’t show us. We don’t see the initial attack on the Kayuga at all. Why was the lone Gorn (stuck?) on that side of the line trying to access command codes on a destroyed ship? I think we’ll get a revealing flashback in S03E01.

          • @Zoboomafoo
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            21 year ago

            Agreed about the survivors part, it seems like a major oversight that I hope they can explain in a satisfying way.

            As for the Gorn on the ship, I presumed it was just a crewman trying to gather intelligence on the Federation by picking through the remains of the saucer section

            • Tom Riley
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              11 year ago

              @Zoboomafoo I watched again. Maybe it does show reasonable transition between “looking for survivors with little hope” & “crashing the wreck gives good chance of saving others now”. They also assume Chapel was in (destroyed) sick bay, but she’d only just beamed back, so probably wasn’t. Lots to speculate about with the lone Gorn though. From what we know about younglings, it seems the adult would‘ve detected Chapel, and be capable of killing both instantly, so maybe didn’t intend to?