Dusk wrote:That was the same philosophy behind having the armed security guards conducting blood tests on Earth streets. And the citizens were uncomfortable with it.
Um, there's a rather large difference there.
People like displays of strength by whoever's protecting them because they want to know that said protector actualy has the ability to protect them.
People don't like being interfered with or having their privacy invaded, as with your blood test examples.
Blackstar wrote:Or that I meant a massive burst like an explosion, with the Scimitar being in the eye of the storm so to speak and being immune to harm...from it's own weapon at least.
You will now prove that that's possible.
or they were just emiters
They were explicitly described as
targetting wings. If they were emmiters, they would have been called emiters, not targetting devices.
No, I said Shinzon had his own prototypes, knew that the smaller weapon would be more predicatable then the larger versions. He would need prototypes so that he has some clue what he's building into the Scimitar. Afterall they didn't just shove nuclear reactors into Navy vessels, they had prototype reactors to figure out the pros and cons, and how to use it properly. Otherwise we'd have had a lot more sailors who suffered from radiation poisining. And I'm saying that's related to the civilian casualties but not directly.
And how does this back up your claims that Shinzon's attack on the Senate would have been totaly predictable for his Romulan allies?
Well, I think you suggested using the Scimitar's weapon rather then the sneak-the-bomb-in trick we saw in the movie.
Read my posts again. I never suggested anything that stupid.
What I meant was setting the device
outside the Senate, and just pointing it at the area where the Senate members would be. All risk is virtualy eliminated with such a tactic, and colateral damage would only be along the lines of one or two people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Well, this is a different species and culture where that might not be as true, but I see your point.
Prove that the Romulan mindset with regards to such things is massively different.
Well if the US government was taken over by a dictatator with an ego the size of Texes and a score to settle then, probably yes.
No, that would mean the president is ok with genocide. That does
not mean that his VP, the Senate, the military, the Courts, and all the other groups that make up and support the government would be fine with genocide.
Kuvagh wrote:I hate to point this out but Humanity has gone along with quite a few Genocides, including the US and I'm not talking about ancient History. Even when we know what is happening we still do too little to stop it, Somalia, a few troops were killed in a botched attack, we ran. Rwanda, 11 soldiers died because of UN rules which were forced onto them by the US and French Government which allowed them to be killed, we ran. The ongoing problems in Darfur...
I know that, but that's not really what I meant. People are just fine to let millions of others die as long as it's not them dying, it's not them killing them directly, and it doesn't inconvinience them. The US, for example, may be fine with letting the stuff in Rwanda go on, but wouldn't you agree it would be a bit different if the President ordered Rwanda turned into a radioactive wasteland?
