History Headscratchers / TitanAE

** For all we know, Professor Tucker's project staff who'd worked alongside him on the ''Titan'' all had rings like Cale's as well. Unfortunately, none of them were able to finish the job, whether because they died in the evacuation or wound up marooned or enslaved on some backwater alien colony.

* In the Ice Rings of Tigrin, Korso's crew need to follow Cale in order to find the Titan, as the only way to locate it is to use the map that Professor Tucker gave him. But if the map was that important, why did Korso and Preed simply let him go when he escaped onto New Bangkok? It's not as if the colonists had a dozen working spaceships that he could have used to escape, so why not stick around and hunted him down if he was the key to finding the Titan?

* For what is supposed to be a hardscrabble colony barely surviving in the middle of space nowhere, the people of New Bangkok didn't have any problems with just giving Cale one of their old spaceships just because. Shouldn't there have been ''some'' resistance to this? Wouldn't the colonists want to hang on every piece of tech or material or fuel they have left, to help increase their odds of survival just a little bit more? Sure, it was a broken junkheap and needed a lot of work to get spaceworthy, but it seems like everyone was glad to pitch in on nothing more than Cale's boyish charm. Seriously?

* So the story kicks off because humans invented the Titan Project, and somehow that pissed off the Drej enough that they decided to destroy Earth over it. Okay, fine -- but why didn't they finish the job? After Earth is destroyed, there are still humans scattered throughout the galaxy, whether it's scraping by on the edges of alien societies or huddled in drifter colonies in the middle of nowhere. Why do the Drej ignore them? Heck, why did the Drej eject Akima in a human-friendly space capsule instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting her]]? Conversely, if the Drej were only upset about the Titan Project, why bother to destroy the Earth when they could have used a simpler surgical strike on the Titan itself?

* So the story kicks off because humans invented the Titan Project, and somehow that pissed off the Drej enough that they decided to destroy Earth over it. Okay, fine -- but why didn't they finish the job? After Earth is destroyed, there are still humans scattered throughout the galaxy, whether it's scraping by on the edges of alien societies or huddled in drifter colonies in the middle of nowhere. Why do the Drej ignore them? Conversely, if the Drej were only upset about the Titan Project itself, why bother to destroy the Earth when they could have used a simpler surgical strike on the Titan itself?

* For what is supposed to be a hardscrabble colony barely surviving on the edge of space, the people of New Bangkok didn't have any problems with just giving Cale one of their old spaceships just because. Shouldn't there have been ''some'' resistance to this? Wouldn't the colonists want to hang on every piece of tech or material or fuel they have left, to help increase their odds of survival just a little bit more? Sure, it was a broken junkheap and needed a lot of work to get spaceworthy, but it seems like everyone was glad to pitch in on nothing more than Cale's boyish charm. Seriously?

** Maybe they count themselves as "aliens" in whatever place they're in. Since it's not their homeworld, they're still "alien" to that particular planet, and daying "alien" is easier than having to outright identify their species.

* Cale's dad specifically mentions that "they came without warning and without mercy." Going by that, the humans should have had no idea the Drej were coming with the intent to wipe them out, let alone be ready to be launching evacuation ships. (And I'm just going by what's told to us in the movie in this case) One could say that the Drej have already had hostile encounters with the humans, but that's never clarified. There's no mention of them having destroyed planets before so again, no reason humans would think they were here to destroy Earth. There is mention of them breaching the planetary defense systems, but it looks like it's only the fighters breaching the atmosphere while the mothership stays in high orbit and prepares its death ray. The humans should have been caught completely unawares if the Drej were attacking "without warning." Instead, it looks like they were at least somewhat prepared for this scenario, even if most humans were still probably killed when the Earth blew up.
** Maybe the experimentation leading up to the ''Titan'''s development was dangerous enough, in itself, that Earth's inhabitants had construction evacuation ships just in case the breakthrough had GoneHorriblyWrong. Alternately, it could be that the Drej weren't the ''first'' aliens to threaten Earth, but merely the first to succeed. So, unused escape ships were left over from the previous crisis.

* So Korso plans on delivering the ''Titan'' to the Drej, largely because"The human race is outta gas, it's circling the drain, it's finished!" It's a traitorous, nihilistic view that Cal naturally opposes at that point in the film. Thing is, Cal actually had a similar outlook at the beginning of the movie, which he told Korso about. Had Korso just laid out his true intentions from the start, the more cynical, nihilistic Cal of the first act likely would've been on board with the plan.

** Maybe the experimentation leading up to the ''Titan'''s development was dangerous enough, in itself, that Earth's inhabitants had construction evacuation ships just in case the breakthrough had GoneHorriblyWrong. Alternately, it could be that the Drej weren't the ''first'' aliens to threaten Earth, but merely the first to succeed. So, escape ships were left over from the previous crisis.

** Maybe the experimentation leading up to the ''Titan'''s development was dangerous enough, in itself, that Earth's inhabitants had construction evacuation ships just in case the breakthrough had GoneHorriblyWrong. Alternately, it could be that the Drej weren't the ''first'' aliens to threaten Earth, but merely the first to succeed.

! What the Hell did Korso think he was going to get out of his deal with the Drej Queen?
* Honestly, Captain, what could the Drej possibly offer you that would be worth selling out your entire species to their mortal enemy? If things go pear-shaped (as they indeed did), you've pretty much burned ALL your bridges; no-one in their right mind would want anything to do with you, outside of maybe hunting you down and terminating you with extreme prejudice. And what makes you think the Drej will honor their end of the bargain? They clearly view humans as vermin to be exterminated, and probably you doubly so for being a dirty traitor.

! What The Hell Did Korso Think He Was Going To Get Out Of His Deal With The Drej Queen?

* Honestly, Captain, what could the Drej possibly offer you that would be worth selling out your entire species to their mortal enemy? If things go pear-shaped (as they indeed did), you've pretty much burned ALL your bridges; no-one in their right mind would want anything to do with you, outside of maybe hunting you down and terminating you with extreme prejudice. And what makes you think the Dredge will honor their end of the bargain? They clearly view humans as vermin to be exterminated, and probably you doubly so for being a dirty traitor.

! What The Hell Did Korso Think He Was Going To Get Out Of His Deal With The Dredge Queen?
* Honestly, Captain, what could they possibly offer you that would be worth selling out your entire species to their mortal enemy? If things go pear-shaped, you've pretty much burned ALL your bridges; no-one in their right mind would want anything to do with you, outside of maybe hunting you down and terminating you with extreme prejudice. And what makes you think the Dredge will honor their end of the bargain? They clearly view humans as vermin to be exterminated, and probably you doubly so for being a dirty traitor.