Two possible effects

[zvi]

I posted the below to my journal couple of days ago, and then realized the question was appropriate for this comm:

So, that whole thing where conventional Federation warp drives were tearing apart the fabric of space-time, but, it appears, some solution must have been found for the problem, since someone thought it was a idea to build Voyager, with a cruising speed above Warp 9. (The environmental impact of gasoline distortion of the fabric of space-time by conventional warp technologies was a big part of the plot of the finale of TNG.)

Does Spock Prime remember enough of the associated engineering to tell people (a) what the problem is and (b) how to fix it? Is the problem even fixable with 23rd century technology? Does the problem even exist with 23rd century technology? Will Spock Prime give advanced technology to Montgomery Scott again, or will he give Vulcan a technological advance which allows them to turn into a civilization of pirates couriers.

Then today I was reading anne_higgins' No-Win Scenario which is not particularly germane to this comm, but which mentions that the low-level species wide telepathy was putting the Vulcans into a tail-spin, and I wondered if a large number of people from a different telepathic species would be helpful or harmful.

What do y'all think of either or both ponderances?

Comments

[illariy]

Just found this excerpt of Immunity Syndrome on youtube: Spock's reaction to the death of 400 Vulcans and his talk with McCoy

[zvi]

Oooh, thanks. (Although, Spock's assertion of Vulcan superiority on that front seems suspicious to me. Didn't it take the application of Sarekian philosophy to stop with the common killinatin' on Vulcan?) Also, I don't understand how I felt the death of a bunch of Vulcans translates to I know that not even the computer was expecting that.

But, then, you know, 60's tv, I'm not expecting so much. They startled the heck out of me with that sting when Spock felt it.

But, yes, definitely v. intriguing. And thanks for tracking down that clip!

[illariy]

Haha yes, definitely suspicious. There must have been other factors at play because if it brought them such pain to feel another die, they'd never have gone to the verge of extinguishing their own species.

Also, I don't understand how I felt the death of a bunch of Vulcans translates to I know that not even the computer was expecting that.

Well, I suppose you could handwave it as 'the Vulcan science officer had done all sensor sweeps and reading and stuff and even from the sum total of the computer output, it was completely unexpected'.

Or, which I prefer: there's something about a Vulcan's relationship with his computer that Spock hasn't been telling us. :P

The thing about TOS is that it was largely episodic so the whole thing has less cohesion than one might wish but on the other hand, it gives us lots of leeyway in interpretation and hours of fun trying to come up with explanations for some of the sillier things.