Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” - eviltoast
Logline

A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.


Written by: Jamie Loftus

Directed by: Megan Lloyd

  • BadExampleMan@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    I think people tend to underestimate what’s required to evacuate a planetary population. That’s billions of people! The 24th century we see might have some massive passenger transport that could hold, say, 10000 passengers. You’d need hundreds of thousands of ships that size to evacuate the whole planet. And the logistics would be a nightmare’s nightmare. A ship that size probably doesn’t make planetfall. How do you get them loaded? Think about how long it takes to get a widebody jet boarded - maybe 500 people at most. What about the quadriplegics? What about the bedridden? What about the pets? Etc. etc. etc.

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        1 year ago

        True. Unfortunately, holding people in the transport buffer is one of those things you have to entirely forget exists if you want to tell certain stories. The transporter in general could trivialise a lot of story beats.