Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

[MarkB]

Do agree that Pelia living in Canada would have been a better and easier choice.

I think it'd have been a little too convenient.

 

[Rabulias]

This episode adds a possible new wrinkle to La'an serving on the Farragut (captained by Kirk) in the alternate future we saw in S1E10.

 

[Rabulias]

And I guess we can blame Canada for Khan and the Eugenics Wars?

 

[Arilyn]

And I guess we can blame Canada for Khan and the Eugenics Wars?

We are quietly dangerous up here..

 

[Vael]

Marvel comics was right, Department H is a menace

 

[Umbran]

And I guess we can blame Canada for Khan and the Eugenics Wars?

So, by extension, Starfleet is Canada's fault, too...

 

[Arilyn]

So, by extension, Starfleet is Canada's fault, too...

Shatner and Doohan... Canadian!

 

[Ryujin]

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think it'd have been a little too convenient.

It's already far too convenient, only 400 miles away. She could have been considerably further away and still been in Canada.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If that "cold fusion" plant was slamming enough beta particles into the atmosphere that it would cause that, well, it seems like that would be a major radiation leak (true radiation experts please correct me if wrong). But it's fine really, because it was at least science-like and they didn't try to make a moral point with it or anything.

Well, I have a Physics degree, but I'm not a true "radiation expert".

1) Cold fusion does not exist. But an experimental hot fusion reactor in Toronto is perfectly plausible.

2) Beta particles have a range of about 90 cm in air. So to detect it that way you would either need to be already looking at it, or there would have to be a deadly radiation leak.

3) It's my understanding that it is gamma radiation that triggers phosphorescence. Again, you would only expect this to be detectable if their was a deadly radiation leak, and one would expect emergency services to carry equipment capable of detecting it (in case of a "dirty bomb"). Along with any school or university science lab. I assume Toronto has those?

4) A fusion reactor would emit neutrinos. And I would expect any Starfleet Academy graduate to know this. These are basically harmless but difficult to detect. They would not trigger phosphorescence, but I would expect a Starfleet Academy graduate to be able to build a detector (probably van-sized) given time and 21st century materials. If they can't I'm flunking them on engineering.

5) Looking for "Noonien-Singh" in the phone book would have been considerably easier and faster. Kirk had already mentioned he had never heard the name, so that pointed directly to the change.