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WarpGirl wrote:Well we can be.I would have loved to see Phlox actually meet his two youngest sons. We know that they hold on to ancient prejudices, but I really think Phlox and his species should have been more developed in series. I disregard "Dear Doctor" for many many reasons. The main one being scientific inaccuracy. Still I think Plox had the potential to be as good of a Doctor to the show as "Doc" on VOY or Beverly on TNG. Too bad. What would *you* liked to have seen?
WarpGirl wrote:I agree, about everything you've said. But whether you believe in evolution or not; they got it wrong. Evolution isn't supposed to work that way, and if you're going to treat it as "fact" then get it right. I know it's TV but come on. As for Phlox being "immoral" IDK, I agree he's done some stupid things but maybe that's just because he's alien. Doesn't make it right, but I'm against humanizing aliens too much. It defeats the purpose of having aliens. I'll see that whole shebang nest Tuesday. And let you know.
Alelou wrote:Unfortunately, they really muddied it up by killing off the species that clearly looked the fittest by introducing some obscure genetic disease that was afflicting every single one of them, without any resistance of any kind being developed, which is pretty unrealistic. They also threw in the political angle of the lesser species being (awfully conveniently, from a storytelling point of view) oppressed.
And yes, as KTR pointed out, you can't predict how evolution is going to go until it goes; you'd have to have a crystal ball and you'd have to assume that not a single current variable is going to change in the slightest.
Aquarius wrote:That's where I kind of picked up on the neanderthal/homo sapien parallel. The programs I've seen on the subject suggest that for a time both species existed at the same time. The neanderthals should've had the home field advantage by having been here longer and for a long time there were more of them, so we homo sapiens were the underdog, yet somehow we "out-evolved" them and became the dominant species. And yeah, the oppression of the lesser species is definitely a plot device to make us sympathetic toward them, to make the question of helping the more advanced species more controversial.Which is why I think they shouldn't have made it about "evolution" so much as "the natrual development of two societies" and "giving advanced technology to a lesser-developed species." Those are conflicts any Trekkie can relate to, because we all know that the Prime Directive is based on the reasoning that if you give a chimp a gun and the chimp shoots somebody, it's not the chimp's fault, it's yours for being dumb enough to give him the gun. from T'Pol's remarks in earlier episodes, it seems the Vulcans of her time have employed their own Prime Directive for a long time, so it's not that much of a stretch that this episode could've been easily modified into something more relatable yet still carry the essence of what the writers were trying to say.
WarpGirl wrote:I actually agree as well, but I have studied the priciples of Evolution and sometimes the Discovery channel oversimplifies it.
"Dear Doctor" got it wrong, and I just believe if a SCIENCE fiction show is going to present real scientific theories/facts they should get them right. I assume all of these people passed the science courses their schools gave them
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