November 2024, Day 27

[wiseheart]

Counting down to the last three days...

This is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it).
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[wiseheart]

I've run into a serious problem with "Hunter, Prey". Originally, I intended to follow the canon episode, only replacing the totally uninteresting and never-seen-again aliens of the week with Klingons (at least everyone knows Klingons), but then I realized said problem which was caused by the sloppy writing of the original. Our heroes come across a rogue planet - apparently that's a planet that has broken out of its orbit and is now wandering across the universe in its lonesome - that has no sun. And yet they find a world similar to the South American rain forests. With green, tropical foliage. Now I'll have to revamp the entire story to give a halfway acceptable answer for that, because every schoolkid knows that chlorophyll makes the plants green, and how it would photosynthesis be possible without a sun and consequently without light? Now I'm having my Centaurian exobiologist muse about the problem. She hasn't come to any conclusions yet. *g*

Excerpt:

"I wonder when this planet has broken out of orbit," Dr. Yannes commented. "The flora is still fairly normal for a Calls M planet; I can't discover any specific ways the plants might have adapted to the permanent darkness."

[adafrog]

Yes! You go girl with the lack of sun problem. That would drive me nuts.

[wiseheart]

I know, right? The screenwriters always have a serious problem with the "science" part of science-fiction. And with continuity.

[adafrog]

True.

[heleninwales]

A green planet wandering around with no sun to sustain life would definitely destroy my suspension of disbelief. Good luck with coming up with a decent explanation.

[wiseheart]

There are always the Iconians to blame. *g*

[ylla]

How odd. In soft scifi there probably are possible reasons (illusions, godlike beings, it's really some kind of enormous space station, just Really Weird Science where green comes from something else...), but you'd think they'd have picked one.