I know this is the pilot, so latitude has to be given. However, we have been exploring all manner of anomalies and solar systems from earth by creating bigger and better telescopes for years. Now, bigger and better telescopes are being launched into space for even more exploration.
Since Delta Vega figures into this episode, let's talk about it for a moment. For this part of the debate, I'm assuming that this planet is light years from anywhere because of the comments made about how desolate it is and the issue of it being inhabited once every 20 years.
I am assuming Starfleet has possession of Delta Vega and its facilities. None of that could have happened without some scientist looking through a telescope years before and finding a solar system with a planet that's composed of the elements that make up lithium. What is odd to me is that some scientist didn't already discover the barrier. In terms of a powerful telescope, it's not all that far away and we puny 21st century humans have discovered anomalies much further than it. Surely in the 23rd century, scientists can probe even further with the technology they have at their disposal.
While it's fun to watch the Enterprise stumble upon planets that have never seen a human, we know from discoveries on earth that that just doesn't happen. It wouldn't happen in Star Trek either. The galaxy is way too huge for that and is continually expanding to permit that many interactions. And for the Enterprise to just accidentally happen to stumble on a perfect solar system with perfectly inhabitable planets is the stuff of fiction.
A telescope (and someone who knows how to use it) would have added some additional dimension to the Enterprise's five year mission. They couldn't just throw some telescope on board with Moe to roll it out whenever they felt like using it, though. But, knowing about the series, if they did carry a telescope, no doubt anyone could be doing just that in season 3, coincidental with the decline of the episodes. I'm actually surprised that these newer reboots haven't come an onboard scope. Or have they?
Since Delta Vega figures into this episode, let's talk about it for a moment. For this part of the debate, I'm assuming that this planet is light years from anywhere because of the comments made about how desolate it is and the issue of it being inhabited once every 20 years.
I am assuming Starfleet has possession of Delta Vega and its facilities. None of that could have happened without some scientist looking through a telescope years before and finding a solar system with a planet that's composed of the elements that make up lithium. What is odd to me is that some scientist didn't already discover the barrier. In terms of a powerful telescope, it's not all that far away and we puny 21st century humans have discovered anomalies much further than it. Surely in the 23rd century, scientists can probe even further with the technology they have at their disposal.
While it's fun to watch the Enterprise stumble upon planets that have never seen a human, we know from discoveries on earth that that just doesn't happen. It wouldn't happen in Star Trek either. The galaxy is way too huge for that and is continually expanding to permit that many interactions. And for the Enterprise to just accidentally happen to stumble on a perfect solar system with perfectly inhabitable planets is the stuff of fiction.
A telescope (and someone who knows how to use it) would have added some additional dimension to the Enterprise's five year mission. They couldn't just throw some telescope on board with Moe to roll it out whenever they felt like using it, though. But, knowing about the series, if they did carry a telescope, no doubt anyone could be doing just that in season 3, coincidental with the decline of the episodes. I'm actually surprised that these newer reboots haven't come an onboard scope. Or have they?
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