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Nerroth Fleet Captain
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Wolverin61 Commander
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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. _________________ "His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."
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Nerroth Fleet Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:38 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ FC Omega Discussion (v3)
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:14 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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Wolverin61 Commander
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:30 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."
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djdood Commodore
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: |
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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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Wolverin61 Commander
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."
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djdood Commodore
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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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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