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Nerroth
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In that case, find a member species/subject race/faction that has an immunity...
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the SFB scenario "Quarantine" (which sounds a lot like this one, except it's a Klingon penal ship instead of Kzintis) the Klingons can't do hit-and-run raids for the very reason they might get infected. That's just the thing: Nobody's sure what the plague is, so no telling who might be able to get it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There would still be certain species, like Hydrans (who have to wear sealed suits on oxy-nitrogen worlds or die anyway) and Tholians (who are a silicon-based life form, and also have to wear sealed suits or die) who could be in a somewhat different situation.


Ditto for certain non-Alpha factions, like the silicoid Trobrin - or, indeed, for the likes of Drex or Andromedan robot boarding parties.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you not read or see Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain?

Perhaps it's an organism that has evolved the ability to eat/burrow/dig/slash/burn/transport through an enviro-suit?
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scoutdad wrote:
Did you not read or see Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain?

Perhaps it's an organism that has evolved the ability to eat/burrow/dig/slash/burn/transport through an enviro-suit?


The Andromeda Strain is one of my all-time favorite books! When I was a teenager, I checked that book out of the library about a dozen times and read it, then on a school field trip to Miss. State, bought a paperback copy in the bookstore there.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I loved the 1970's movie. Scared the bejusus out of me.

The recent TV-miniseries was so bad I quit watching after 15 minutes.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

djdood wrote:
I loved the 1970's movie. Scared the bejusus out of me.


That is a good movie; directed by Robert Wise, who went on to do ST:TMP.

djdood wrote:
The recent TV-miniseries was so bad I quit watching after 15 minutes.


Didn't see it, but from what I'd read, they'd changed it up so much I didn't think it'd be very good.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup. I think it is easily one of Robert Wise's best. Very taught and surprisingly fast-paced, considering the times.
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