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Skriven 2004-11-25 18:33:00 av Kevin Karmann (1:278/230)
Ärende: "The Forge"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu@roava.net>
To: "startrek List Member" <startrek@rime.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: [startrek] "The Forge"
> And of course we now see why Vulcans of this era are not what we'd come to
> expect since TOS.   And, of course we see which faction currently on
Vulcan
> is going to "win out" in the coming conflict.

I still find it kind of hard to swallow that Vulcan society would change so
much in such a short span of time.  Even in "The Forge," for example, it's
implied that most Vulcans can't mind meld.  I could understand how there
might always be some that are disabled that way, but I think we've seen too
many with telepathic ability to just regard it as a gift of a few.

> We've seen "slimy" Vulcans before but Foxworths Administrator comes off
> like a true politician, one who you'd suspect is the sort who serves his
> own best interests first and then Vulcan later...  quick to condemn and
> relentless in his "authority".    I find him distasteful, an interesting
> quality in a Vulcan.

But he's still intriguing, as he doesn't seem as, well, uptight as Stel or
many other Vulcans we've seen over the years.  My best guess would be that
he knows more than what he's saying (at best, his blanket disregard for what
Soval saw in the mind meld shows he's no friend of the ambassador).

> I still expect Koss to either meet with a catastrophic accident or wind up
> in jail somehow or likewise become dispatched.    He's another distasteful
> Vulcan...  insidious and conniving and self-serving.

Ah, but will it be here?  They really haven't milked a lot out of this
marriage thing yet, so I suspect that -- unless we see much more of it over
the next two weeks -- Koss lives out this particular arc.

> Well...   the budget *did* get cut...   I imagine CGI'ing a Vulcan
predator
> might have strained things.

But they did such a good job of Enterprise dog-fighting over New York
City...

> >Of course, as only the first part of a trilogy, this story could take any
> >possible turns.  It certainly seems that Arev has left behind some
> >information -- maybe even his Katra -- in Archer.
>
> I'm almost ready to suspect that he left a good deal more with Archer.

Like, perhaps, Surak's katra?  I initially thought that might be the case,
but then I wasn't so sure.  I even had myself convinced that Arev was the
Vulcan we saw in the beginning in the cave, but you would think that would
have been Syrran, the founder of the movement.  Of course, Arev was very
circumspect about the whole matter of Surak's katra (talking about it as
rumor that one of Syrran's followers found it and is sharing it with the
others).  Certianly, Arev fits the bill as one of those "followers."  And,
even if he isn't, sharing could imply not just telepathically touching the
katra in the container, but passing it from person to person.

> Now, aren't you all glad Braga is doing something else in that other
office
> now?     And aren't you all glad Coto is looking at better writers?

Just imagine what creations he'll come up with now that he's working on
something else, though...

Kevin





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