Talk:Starship Mine (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Terrorists 3 Die Hard 4 Tone 5 Hutchinson's fate 6 Removed notes

I've just watched the episode again and right after the teaser, when the reception begins there can be heard some background chatter while Data is wandering around. I think I heard someone talking about a food called sth. like "Riskian Cheese Paste". Could maybe someone else watch the episode and confirm this (or say, what he hears out of it), so we can create an article about it? Kennelly 13:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• • I checked the episode and it seems that the Arkarian waiter is asking Geordi La Forge and Deanna Troi if they want some "Riskian Cheese pastry". Geordi doesn't want any (in many of the different language dubbings of the episode on my DVD, he says that he's full), but Deanna wants some more. Anyway, you really should create that article! --Jörg 15:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Article created. Kennelly 14:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

So why does Hutchinson die and Geordi doesn't? Both are shot. -- unsigned

he goes into a coma -- wasn't that enough? he was in better shape than "hutch" -- Captain M.K.B. 16:31, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

My theory is, the guy who shot Hutch was so annoyed at Hutch (for the endless chat earlier), he shot him extra hard or something? - T'Sura, May 5th, 2008

[edit] Terrorists

In the first paragraph of the article and in the "Background Information" section the thieves on the ship are called terrorists, which they are not. From the what the leader, Kiros, says they are purely in it for the profit. So they may sell to terrorists, but they are just thieves. I think that it should be changed, but I leave that to others with more knowledge on TNG and memory-alpha rules.

[edit] Die Hard

So, in the Background Information, someone added that the plot is "quite similar" to Die Hard... Granted that both involves groups of thieves trying to steal something, but other than that, is there really a resemblance worth noting? -umrguy42 00:59, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

That point was removed from the article. But, see "Tone" just below this; the description there fits this episode and Die Hard to a "T". - Adambomb1701 15:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tone

The brief opening description, containing "Picard plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with terrorists" is not only extremely clichéd, but quite inappropriate for an encyclopedic work. – 65.23.90.6 18:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

It is what he did. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 19:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

But they was merchants! Ant6n 07:57, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

No they weren't. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 14:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

They weren't terrorists either, they were stealing the trilithium to sell to terrorists. Terrorists don't usually kill eachother, just other people. Wheatleya 15:29, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hutchinson's fate

In the background information: "Commander Hutchinson was hit by a phaser like La Forge, but we never saw what happened to him." I also wondered about this the first time I saw the episode, but after recently watching it, one scene provides a visual answer. In the Arkaria Base scene after Hutchinson and La Forge get shot, as the camera pans upwards, at the bottom of the screen, you can see the outline of a body covered with a blue fabric. This is evidently Hutchinson, and therefore proof he died. Marky1981 02:21, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I must have missed that. Since I wrote this background information I will delete it. :-) --Captain Wiesel 09:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah it is easy to miss - I did the first time I saw it, so the next time I was looking for clues! Marky1981 13:24, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, in my opinion the current solution is very good. --Captain Wiesel 15:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed notes

I removed the following notes as not relevant to this episode. They're more relevant to the Tim Russ (where the info is already) and Marie Marshall pages:

• He also guest stars in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as T'Kar and the mirror Tuvok. He also plays a bridge officer on the Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations.
• Marie Marshall, who plays terrorist-leader Kelsey, is known to fans of Babylon 5 for playing Garibaldi's love interest, Elizabeth "Dodger" Durman in the episodes GROPOS and Day of the Dead. This is further accentuated by Patricia Tallman, who played regular cast-member, Lyta Alexander. Also B5 premiered one month before this episode, although Marshall's character on B5 wouldn't be featured for a few seasons, Lyta Alexander was featured in the B5 pilot/movie The Gathering. For further info, see GROPOS on Wikipedia, or the Babylon Project.

– Cleanse 05:53, September 17, 2009 (UTC)