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[edit] PNA

This article could use more fleshing out overall. -- Renegade54 20:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Telepathy-blocking drug?

Does anyone remember the name of the drug Diana used in this episode? Something to block her telepathic capabilities. --89.1.98.179 22:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Crusher doesn't say; she offers something to help her relax, and then later suggests blocking her telepathic capabilities by inducing coma.
--85.210.151.61 15:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genocide in the Federation

What exactly does Picard mean when he tells the Dowd Kevin that they have no law to fit his crime? Is it because they are another species, unknown to and outside the Federation and perhaps the prime directive might apply in some way? Someone once used this to "demonstrate" that it isn't illegal to commit genocide by federation law. Well, of course it is! If a renegade Vulcan ship had destroyed the planet and Kevin obliterated all Vulcans, certainly they would bring charges against him.

On a side note, he didn't have to destroy the Husnock, or even that one ship, couldn't he have created a shield around the planet, thrown it a million light years away, or made it's weapons disappear?

I hope if there is another series they explore exactly what this means to the galaxy (if the Husnock are from it.)Killing the entire race would leave buildings and perhaps hundreds or thousands or star systems behind, where are they? Wonder if they'll ever find a vast deserted empire somewhere. 68.189.242.109 21:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I suspect Picard meant that they didn't have any means to judge a being of such immense power that it could destroy an entire civilisation in a crime of passion.
The power of Kevin raises many further questions: why couldn't he simply recreate the whole civilisation; why couldn't he have changed them to be less hostile; why couldn't he have provided an illusion that the planet didn't even exist...
I hate to say it, but this episode seems to be one of the least coherent.
--85.210.151.61 15:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Correct species name is Douwd.
--85.210.151.61 16:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
The exact quote was "all Husnock, everywhere". We can't be sure if Picard had even heard of the species before, which would be very surprising, unless they came from a very long way away. Starfleet captains would be briefed in on a hostile species with massive warships in the local area. It almost sounds as if Uxbridge created a temporal incursion, like Annorax did in Year of Hell (VOY). That can't be the case, because that would have brought the planet back to normal as well. Still, whatever he did, Picard could not prove that he had done anything. Other than his confession, there was no evidence. Still, it all looks like an incoherent mess anyway.--Indefatigable 23:23, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Douwd = Q?

Are the Douwd mentioned in any other episode? They seem essentially the same as Q.

--85.210.151.61 15:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] odd section

Picard theorizes that Troi's music stems from the desirability of Rishon and Kevin's unwillingness to leave.

eh? desirability. I don't understand this statement. --87.114.0.39 00:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Edited to make more sense, but I'm still not sure what the original author was getting at -- Wheatleya 15:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Length of Life

From the background info:

This second italicized sentence seems speculative, though I don't disagree with it. I'd like to remove it unless it's felt that it is necessary. -- DhaliaUnsung 22:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Knock yourself out. :) It's a personal observation and not necessary...especially since Uxbridge wasn't even human — Morder 22:21, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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