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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 900580" data-attributes="member: 5">OK.  Now that I've played my usual part of rebuffing the detractors... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ...time to throw a few bones to the critics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You address three of the four problems I did have with the show.  I am on board with the "why didn't water flow into the swath?" complaint.  It looks more devastated to have a gaping stretch but I see no way they could have avoided the water flowing in to fill the gap.I'm not sure how the Klingons managed to scan that Enterprise was leaving dock, been close enough to do so, and not been detected by another Starfleet vessel or satelite in our solar system.  I'll have to look for an explanation during the rerun.I'm also curious why they didn't give us at least a taste of the "General and the Marines" but I understand the potential problem with casting not having been done yet.  Still, they could have made mention of them or new quarters being added, or something.The third problem I have is with "Quantum Dating" and I have no idea why someone else hasn't jumped all over this yet.  If something exists, no matter in what timeline, it must have been around for a period of time and I would think that it's elements would show to have been converted/transformed/mutated/refined or whatever "a certain amount of time ago" no matter at what point they would have been scanned.  To whit, if a device is manufactured 432 years before, but is brought forth in time 400 years, would it not scan as being manufactured 32 years before?  If something is manufactured 432 in the future, sits on a shelf for thirty-two days, is brought back in time 432 years, and sits in a hanger for two months wouldn't it scan as being manufactured three months ago?</blockquote>

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