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** Given they couldn't warp out of the Briar Patch anyway they probably just used impulse to get clear of it then either went to the nearest Starbase in impulse range or assuming their wasn't one called a supply ship to give them a new warp core to install.
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** Given how male pattern baldness works Picard's hair follicles would need to be regenerated, then hair would have to start forming, and then finally start growing out enough to be visible. That would take far longer than the period of the film, it would probably be over a month before Picard started having obvious stubble on his head and several months to have a decent head of hair again.
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*** Remember that amazing art Picard was looking at? Anij said it was the work of students. Who would then go on to apprentice for ''thirty or forty years'' before being able to be a full artisan themselves. These are a people more akin to Tolkien's elves in longevity, so being a master weaver probably means something more on Ba'ku than it does here on Earth.
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** Yeah, while the effects of the planet are kind of arbitrary, it doesn't make sense that it would stimulate an unnatural degree of hair growth even if it's possible in principle. It's not Dimoxinil from TheSimpsons.
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** Yeah, while the effects of the planet are kind of arbitrary, it doesn't make sense that it would stimulate an unnatural degree of hair growth even if it's possible in principle. It's not Dimoxinil from TheSimpsons.WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
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** Most likely they do what everone does. Take a map with a top down view if the quadrant and say "we have systems here, here, here and here" and then draw lines between them and claim to own everything within that boundary, and if they're doing that why not curve the lines to cover a fee more systems. Practivally they can only claim what they can hold, but the Fed is massive and can hold a lot of places if needed.
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** Most likely they do what everone does. Take a map with a top down view if of the quadrant and say "we have systems here, here, here and here" and then draw lines between them and claim to own everything within that boundary, and if they're doing that why not curve the have curved rather than straight lines to cover a fee more systems. Practivally Practically, they can only claim what they can hold, but the Fed is massive and can hold a lot of places if needed.
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** Most likely they do what everone does. Take a map with a top down view if the quadrant and say "we have systems here, here, here and here" and then draw lines between them and claim to own everything within that boundary, and if they're doing that why not curve the lines to cover a fee more systems. Practivally they can only claim what they can hold, but the Fed is massive and can hold a lot of places if needed.
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*** Jem'Hadar live for around thirty years at maximum known lifespan, and are "honoured elders" at twenty as per ''[=DS9=]''. A few years is simply the ''average'' lifespan, given that they are cannon fodder for the Dominion.
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** The Ba'ku were well aware that their rebels had left the planet, but they didn't know that said rebels had become the Son'a, nor that they had returned. Even when Data exposed the undercover observation mission, the Ba'ku probably assumed the Son'a were some random alien race, as they were probably unrecognizable as their younger selves, and the Ba'ku lacked the medical technology to do a more thorough examination (and the Son'a never consented to any such procedures). The Ba'ku probably assumed that the rebels they had driven out weren't coming back, or had probably died out by the time of the film in-universe rather than coming back to seek revenge.
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** They do seem to distrust himself initially. Maybe they thought that if they fixed him as soon as possible, they could send him on his way and they wouldn't have to deal with him anyone.
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*** It is strange that they have the means to deliver technobabble like: "There was a phase variance in his positronic matrix which we were unable to repair." They must have some advanced technology at hand to even assess this as being beyond their abilities. Yet this went unobserved by the Federation team?
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** Seems like some posters are going hyper-technical. The man said "Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives." It's a huge jump to read that as "they hate technology" (though Picard himself does pretty much say that). "Our DAILY lives" is a pretty important part of that statement. That doesn't mean they don't use tech as needed, and certainly not that they're deliberately trying to fool anybody. It just means things like "we make our own bread" vs using replicators. As to what is technology, well, they have houses, that's tech. Really, even sticking a seed in the ground is a form of tech.
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** [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]] made the humorous observation that Picard only had to press two buttons to call it up. Have fun trying to figure out why a shuttle pilot would need Creator/GilbertAndSullivan hotkeys on the helm console.
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*** Yup, and Picard did say aloud what he wanted when he asked Worf. It's not that hard to see the shuttle's LCARS-Alexa automatically monitoring what they are saying and he just had to tap a couple buttons to make it so. Likewise, Picard's personal iTunes library could easily follow him everywhere in all sorts of ways that can be done today.
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** It was a quick hectic situation with a few seconds to locate and beam out. Picard had his comm badge that the computer could instantly lock onto. Ru'afo did not.
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** No, they didn't ask. At the beginning of the film the Federation believes the Ba'ku are a pre-warp society, and therefore under the protection of the Prime Directive.
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* Before deciding on forced relocation, did anyone approach the Ba'ku and make an earnest plea for them to leave their planet voluntarily so that billions of lives across the galaxy could be saved? And, if they did, what reason did the Ba'ku (who seem like compassionate chaps) give for refusing?
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* Before deciding on forced relocation, did anyone approach the Ba'ku and make an earnest plea for them to leave their planet voluntarily so that billions of lives across the galaxy could be saved? And, if they did, what reason did the Ba'ku (who seem like compassionate chaps) give for refusing?
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* The Son’a and Ba’ku don’t seem to know they’re the same race. Am I missing something? How could they not know? And would Picard and company believe the Ba’ku? This is a nasty family fight at heart.
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Reverting bowdlerisation.
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* The Son'a exile doesn't make any sense. So the Bak'u children want to industrialize and reclaim their lost technology. Okay. So why didn't they just set up their own colony, ON THE SAME PLANET? Planets are -- how should I put this? -- ''massive''. And the Bak'u number ''six hundred''. Why didn't they just say, "yep, we're exiled now, kthnx bye!" and set up a few hundred kilometers away? More to the point, how did the Bak'u manage to exile them? They refuse to pick up weapons! What are we supposed to think, a) the Son'a went into exile because of strongly-worded letters of disapproval, or b) the perfect SpaceElves armed themselves and threatened to kill their children if they didn't run away and accept a slow death? Picard should've just invoked the Prime Directive (remember, they're the same species, and the Prime Directive prevents him from interfering with internal matters of other races), and then lived it up thanks to the de-aging technology.
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* The Son'a exile doesn't make any sense. So the Bak'u children want to industrialize and reclaim their lost technology. Okay. So why didn't they just set up their own colony, ON THE SAME PLANET? Planets are -- how should I put this? -- ''massive''.''fucking massive''. And the Bak'u number ''six hundred''. Why didn't they just say, "yep, we're exiled now, kthnx bye!" and set up a few hundred kilometers away? More to the point, how the ''fuck'' did the Bak'u manage to exile them? They refuse to pick up weapons! What are we supposed to think, a) the Son'a went into exile because of strongly-worded letters of disapproval, or b) the perfect SpaceElves armed themselves and threatened to kill their children if they didn't run away and accept a slow death? Jesus ''Christ'', the Bak'u are assholes. Picard should've just invoked the Prime Directive (remember, they're the same species, and the Prime Directive prevents him from interfering with internal matters of other races), and then lived it up thanks to the de-aging technology.
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* The Son'a exile doesn't make any sense. So the Bak'u children want to industrialize and reclaim their lost technology. Okay. So why didn't they just set up their own colony, ON THE SAME PLANET? Planets are -- how should I put this? -- ''fucking massive''. And the Bak'u number ''six hundred''. Why didn't they just say, "yep, we're exiled now, kthnx bye!" and set up a few hundred kilometers away? More to the point, how the ''fuck'' did the Bak'u manage to exile them? They refuse to pick up weapons! What are we supposed to think, a) the Son'a went into exile because of strongly-worded letters of disapproval, or b) the perfect SpaceElves armed themselves and threatened to kill their children if they didn't run away and accept a slow death? Jesus ''Christ'', the Bak'u are assholes. Picard should've just invoked the Prime Directive (remember, they're the same species, and the Prime Directive prevents him from interfering with internal matters of other races), and then lived it up thanks to the de-aging technology.
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* The Son'a exile doesn't make any sense. So the Bak'u children want to industrialize and reclaim their lost technology. Okay. So why didn't they just set up their own colony, ON THE SAME PLANET? Planets are -- how should I put this? -- ''fucking massive''.''massive''. And the Bak'u number ''six hundred''. Why didn't they just say, "yep, we're exiled now, kthnx bye!" and set up a few hundred kilometers away? More to the point, how the ''fuck'' did the Bak'u manage to exile them? They refuse to pick up weapons! What are we supposed to think, a) the Son'a went into exile because of strongly-worded letters of disapproval, or b) the perfect SpaceElves armed themselves and threatened to kill their children if they didn't run away and accept a slow death? Jesus ''Christ'', the Bak'u are assholes. Picard should've just invoked the Prime Directive (remember, they're the same species, and the Prime Directive prevents him from interfering with internal matters of other races), and then lived it up thanks to the de-aging technology.
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** Yeah, while the effects of the planet are kind of arbitrary, it doesn't make a sense that it would stimulate an unnatural degree of hair growth even if it's possible in principle.
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*** Simpler explanation: reversing the cause of his baldness wouldn't cause him to immediately have hair. The planet's radiation would repair the underlying issue, but his hair would still have to grow out, and the film takes place over too short a time interval for that to happen.
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*** Simpler explanation: reversing the cause of his baldness wouldn't cause him to immediately have hair. The planet's radiation would repair the underlying issue, but his hair would still have to grow out, and the film takes place over too short a time interval for that to happen.
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Silly name no matter how you spell it.
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