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WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

Ok, so the wife and I watched Start Trek again for about the fourth time since we bought the Blu-ray.

At the end, Spock Prime tells Spock that he has found a planet for which the remaining people of Vulcan can colonize. Being a troublemaker, I thought, aloud, about how the Vulcan people could rapidly bring their numbers up so that the Vulcan way of life can be quickly replenished. Polygamy.

And while Spock can now afford to be in two places at one time, he (Spock, not Spock Prime) will not get to partake in the daily ritual of forced sex. The odd man out isn't the no-sex Spock, but rather Spock Prime spreading his Vulcan seeds of wisdom Thumbs Up

amongst the Vulcan women.

But in the original time line it is a notion that extremely few Vulcans bread outside their own species. And with few native examples for which to begin the sexy task at hand, do they dilute their species by bringing in non-Vulcan genes, or do they clone and bread therein?

Either way you look at it it is bound to be a case that the best policy is to take samples from Romulus, as their next best kinship, and try to tame the savage Romulan beast from within.

All I can say is I ain't about to get into marriage consoling on New Vulcan. Then again, maybe they'll test-tube their future population.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject:

Have you been drinking?

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

BTW, this scene in which has brought a dynamic change in how time-travel is handled and thought to be understood--even in the world of fiction--brings with it a new condition. Since in the old time line one could time travel with caution, then it should be noted that with Spock Prime's knowledge he could setup a time traveling vacation, of sorts, whereby he goes back in time and terminates Nero, save Romulus, and restores the original time line.

But if he is time traveling then why not just go back and make bigger changes? He already knows making changes to past time lines do not alter anything. Hmm.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

dturco · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:33 am Post subject:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

That is not what I grew up being told.

dturco · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:50 pm Post subject:

So It's the first time the couldn't / didn't repair the time line back to what was. I see that issue too, but this isn't the first time that the time line hasn't been fully restored in the sci-fi world.

There are no Fish in Jack O'neill's pond in almost all of the episodes of Star Gate except for one of the time travel ones. In one show after time traveling tapes are discovered, O'neill does have Fish in his pond, to which he quips, close enough.

Just one small example, there are plenty of others.

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

vulcans are from Utah?

dturco · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject:

Huh? Uhh No. But Kirk is from Iowa.

[Never mind I just got the mormon joke.]