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echo: startrek
to: EUGENE TANG
from: MICHAEL MAREK
date: 1997-06-23 07:14:00
subject: Scorpion

 >> CK> In Time's
 >> CK> Arrow it was explained why they aliens were killing humans, I could
 >> CK> plainly see that they were using the humans for a food source.
 >>
 >> Obviously humans were a source of food.  Why did they have to go into a
 >> parallel dimension in order to feed?  Seems very impractical to me.  As
 >> I said, Star Trek is at its best when we come to really understand the
 >> "bad guys."  Often they don't turn out to be so bad.
 ET> Well it wasn't exactly a parallel dimension (depends on how you see it)
Out of phase on the temporal axis?  Something like that?
 ET> Maybe they think humans are tasty?
 ET> You've seen how people go out of their way for good food haven't you?
Again, my point is that Star Trek works best when they allow us to
understand the "bad guys" as opposed to having to guess, or just having
bad guys who are bad for the same of being bad (i.e. because the plot
needs a villan.)
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