History Headscratchers / StarControl

* If you speak The Words to either faction of Ur-Quan, they describe themselves as solitary hunters, suggesting they're carnivorous. The Kohr-Ah want to eliminate all non-Ur-Quan sentience in the universe... so what are they planning on eating once they're done?

** Every time we see the Earth, we can always see the continents and surface details pretty clearly. So, there's no reason to believe that the people on the surface can't see the sun and moon. The stars are a lot dimmer, so I can buy that they can't be seen from the surface, but it's also possible to interpret Hayes' words as him missing the "real" stars; i.e. stars undisturbed by the glow of the slave shield. Assuming the stars really aren't visible from the surface, then it's definitely going to be a problem for some species. I'm sure a few of them will actually go extinct without the stars, but most of them will adapt and evolve new ways to navigate. So I would expect some pretty severe environmental shifts in a few places, but overall, life will go on.

** Every time we see the Earth, we can always see the continents and surface details pretty clearly. So, there's no reason to believe that the people on the surface can't see the sun and moon. The stars are a lot dimmer, so I can buy that they can't be seen from the surface, but it's also possible to interpret Hayes' words as him missing the "real" stars; i.e. stars undisturbed by the glow of the slave shield.
Assuming the stars really aren't visible from the surface, then it's definitely going to be a problem for some species. I'm sure a few of them will actually go extinct without the stars, but most of them will adapt and evolve new ways to navigate. So I would expect some pretty severe environmental shifts in a few places, but overall, life will go on.

* This is probably going too far but should not be somewhat bad for life on Earth to put that shield over the planet?. Even if light can go in so plants can perform photosynthesis (you can see the continents from orbit after all) so the Ur-Quan have had that in mind, Hayes' dialogue suggests stars at the very least cannot be seen from Earth's surface and that would have been quite bad for those species that depend on them for orientation as some migratory birds. Same for the Moon, whose cycles are often used to mark reproductive periods.

*** Another possibility as noted above is that there's much more in some of the destroyed landmarks and it's not pretty. Remember that when you have a conservation with the Kohr-Ah about why they enslave other races they explain you they also basically protect them of horrors you cannot imagine (don't remember the exact quote and you must have to encounter them several times). For all we know, some of such horrors could have been in some of the destroyed places as that patch on the southeast Atlantic Ocean floor which sounds like a ShoutOut to the Cthulhu mythos, as that's where Cthulhu dwells).

** Simple, it has variable power output. Doesn't have to fire a full power blast each time.

* How can the lander's ''stun gun'' vaporize big piles of metal on the planet surface? If it has that kind of energy output, seems like it should fry pretty much anything living in one shot.