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When the USS Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.


Written by Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by Maja Vrvilo

  • JohnnyDelirious@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Which does raise the question of why there was a Gorn aboard the wreck of the Cayuga.

    The Gorn drew up the demarcation line and broadcast it to the Federation, held their fire as promised, and did not consider the arrival of another Gorn ship as a hostile action.

    So the Enterprise sending a shuttle to check the parts of the Cayuga’s wreckage for survivors is something that appears permitted and even expected, so long as it doesn’t cross the line.

    But any such rescue party would then bump into this lone Gorn who was very clearly violating the demarcation line that they themselves proposed.

    Sort of feels like the attack on the colony was unplanned, and that the later Gorn ship was playing damage control while trying to figure out what happened.

    • Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      Sort of feels like the attack on the colony was unplanned, and that the later Gorn ship was playing damage control while trying to figure out what happened.

      That’s consistent with what they theorized regarding the solar flares causing the first ship to attack the colony.

      That’s the best explanation I’ve heard, and I’m going to stick with it until a better one comes along