Those two lines could be perfect for a snippet of dialogue between Tom Paris and Tuvok - although Tom probably _would_ have known enough about Vulcan history, at a guess...
Yeah, they didn't destroy it. The logical move is to pretend you destroyed it so no one will even think of looking for it, but to actually keep it stored away somewhere in case one day you come across an enemy that only the stone can destroy. (also, this makes for future story options and not even Vulcans can stand against the strength of Narrative.)
Someone asked me once to explain to him vulcans as simple as possible... I knew he was a starwars fan so told him : for the longest time vulcans were like sith always at war with each other to dominate the planet...until a man called surak came and began to teach his people how to control their emotions and embrace logic. So with time and following suraks teachings the vulcans became jedi.
So maybe the military need for resistance discipline to thwart this weapon could have been the beginnings of the Kohlinar then? Wouldn't that be interesting...
This video made me think of an interesting video idea, or even series of videos. Things in Star Trek that were thought to be myth but turned out to be real.
Regardless of Sci Fi etc, Roddenberry was able to personify so many of humanity’s natures into various species. A lesson of imbalances and extremes which humanity has yet to learn from.
oh my goodness it does look like Picard that gave me chills, like the depiction of him in Season 2 of Picard as the destroyer version of him with all the skulls in his collection the BORG butcher as he was known they could have forsaw that and felt that worlds presence and put it upon the Tablet like showing the 3 what ifs all in one place.
I always thought that it should have at least knocked Worf on his back, and then Picard/Riker again tells him to remain calm, at which point it fails to work again.
Yeah, that scene always was kind of a lost opportunity for me: the wave going over Worf like it was nothing - at least a push like a strong gust of wind would have been warranted here: not enough to knock him over, just as if someone had given him a little push...
I implore you to read The Bloodwing Voyages by Diane Duane. My feeling for many years has been that that anthology is wonderful, in part because it puts forth what I consider immensely interesting ideas about T’Khasi, the Sundering, and those we now call the Romulans. Okay, apparently Gene Roddenbery really did not like those novels. But just being Gene Roddenbery does not mean one would always be correct. There are few things I am more passinate about than to reread and think about this anthology, over and over. I identify with the characters and experience strong empathy. In fact, I very much wish that some of those characters were actually my friends.
And the Mercenary ship which the Enterprise captured *did not* have its revolutionary _anti-detection stealth coating_ reverse engineered by Starfleet - even though it wasn't technically cloaking so it wouldn't have been banned by the Treaty of Algernon. It made the ship immune to any long range scan and it could only be detected with visual sensors, and it didn't need to be powered as it was a passive coating, and wasn't nerfed when the ship was at high warp. Imagine the strategic possibilities, even just in patrolling within the Borders. Just keep a transponder on when wanting to be seen. But once again, it would have been very useful during the Dominion War …
*Shows defiant class* *Shows the steam runner class* *shows the sovereign class* “Are these not ment to fight the borg. Wouldn’t stealth tech be usefull against them” *Starts to show every nation that want to eradicate the federation*
So powerful was the Vulcan mental gestalt (for lack of better term) that when Spock was 50,000 years in past and probably 100's of light years away from Vulcan. His fathers people could strip away his life time of dedication to Suraks teachings and return him to a Vulcan savage. It makes me wonder how Surak was able to do it in first place (meaning maybe his mental strength had calming effect on others) and its probably the calming effect of the awakening that allowed Romulans to survive and also show more emotional control after leaving Vulcan.
I've always been fascinated by the concept of the Stone of Gol because it uses your enemies'anger against them; doubtless it was a long range weapon because a Mind Lord would be dangerous enough at close range and one to one. And likely its scope of effectiveness could be affected and enhanced by numbers - we have seen Vulcan telepaths form a gestalt mind to assist a single objective, like when Spock's Katra was refused with his Genesis Effect regenerated body. The Stone of Gol wouldn't be much good against the dispassionate Borg Collective but I'm sure it would be tactically effective against Species 8472, that is if they hadn't already gained experience of such weapons and developed a defence, being a telepathic species of surpassing ability.
It would have won the Dominion War, just give it to a powerful but disciplined Betazoid and obliterate all the Jem'Hadar (and Cardassians) in a Fleet using a small squad of Starfleet ships that are all crewed by Vulcans and 'ethically evolved' Humans ect. Or even just the Defiant under cloak - but better not have Sisko onboard, he would get zapped by it, as would Kira. If Vulcan had been overrun, they would have really regretted destroying the artifact.
I never actually watched the entirety of T.O.S - im assuming the face spock makes at 6:03 is in response to sensing some thought light years away; im assume that he's sensing V'ger or someother enormous entity(?)
Spock was also able to feel the destruction of a vulcan crewed vessel at the hands of the planet killer. I suppose it works similar to how Obi-Wan was able to sense the destruction of Alderaan in Star Wars.
It wasn’t the Planet Killer aka Doomsday Machine but the giant space ameba that killed the ship who’s crewe was made up entirely of Vulcans. The ship was the USS Intrepid (NCC-1631) and the episode was “The Immunity Syndrome".
