Have The Klingons Blown Up Praxis?

[Kennah]

Poll question: Have The Klingons Blown Up Praxis?

The nuclear disaster in Japan has caused bits of the movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" to run in my head the past couple of days.

The movie opens with the crew of the USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Sulu, encountering a massive shock wave. They discover the Klingons have blown up their moon, Praxis. The worst effects are massive loss of life, loss of their ozone layer on the Klingon homeworld, and loss of their main energy production facility. The Klingons then sue for peace.

It's obviously not a perfect analogy. We aren't at war with Japan, in fact we are very good friends with Japan, the ozone layer hasn't been wiped out (from this, yet), and this was brought on by a natural disaster.

Is this catastrophe going to bring about a new era of co-operation between at least some nations pursuing more sustainable energy policies in which we better co-exist with one another?

[Drale]

1. You know in Undiscovered country they said Kronos would be uninhabitable

but they still live on Kronos in Next Generation. I could be missing something, but seems like a big plot hole. lol

[onehandle]

3. That's 'New' Kronos.

There are no holes in the Star Trek Continuum.

No holes you can't fill, that is.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. I feel that perhaps the earth is going to make it so we will have a hard enough time

surviving that we won't have time or resources to drop bombs on her.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. It was intended as a metaphor for Chernobyl (which blew up in a Russian satellite, get it?)

The US wasn’t exactly in a shooting with the Soviets at the time, but then the Klingons and the Federation weren’t in an all-out shooting war at the time either…


No, unfortunately, I don’t think this will, “bring about a new era of co-operation between at least some nations pursuing more sustainable energy policies in which we better co-exist with one another?”

[GliderGuider]

5. What this has more potential to be

is a global-scale supply-chain fracture that starts the first major international system failure cascade, the precipitating event of the the post-peak-civilization decline.

We won't know for a while yet, but I'm definitely keeping my ear to the ground.