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Founder
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 Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:07 am S31 plot to destroy the Founders: Is it plausible? |
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Deep Space Nine went at length to tell us about how the Founders (or someone in the Dominion) were masters of genetics. Not only could they manipulate gene pools with ease, but they could also inflict terrible harm by giving others terminal diseases. While there is a sense of poetic justice there by giving them a terminal disease, how plausible was it that they couldn't cure it? The Dominion has supposedly existed for over a millenia and they couldn't find a way to cure the mutagenic virus?
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| Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:40 am |
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Most likely,S31 did something to the virus, either causing it to mutate, or somehow elude any member of the Dominion should they try to 'study' it. I'm sure they tried, it's just one of those things where efforts where not mentioned on screen, to add a dramatic flair to it. Perhaps, the line of them being masters was also properganda, and that it wasn't true and when this happpened...
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| Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:47 pm |
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| Lord Borg wrote: | | Most likely,S31 did something to the virus, either causing it to mutate, or somehow elude any member of the Dominion should they try to 'study' it. I'm sure they tried, it's just one of those things where efforts where not mentioned on screen, to add a dramatic flair to it. Perhaps, the line of them being masters was also properganda, and that it wasn't true and when this happpened... |
Good suggestion about it being propaganda, but don't the Vorta and Jem'Hadar prove they're good with genetics or did you mean how good they are with it? Like they're good, but not as amazing as the Vorta claim the Founders are? I never thought of it as that, but I wouldn't put it past the Dominion to spread propaganda.
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Lord Borg
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| Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:50 pm |
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Right, they are good, but not as good as they are made out to be, hence the properganda. If you spread the message that someones better then you before you even make the attempt, chances are, you wont make the attempt.
I think that several forms of Properganda were most likely used, to 'rally' the troops so to speak.
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| Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:59 pm |
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That is a good question, Founder, and, the propoganda thing is a good explanation, but, still...
The Dominion is more technologically and medically/genetically (as seen by the Vorta/Jem'Hadar), so, they should have been able to find the cure to a disease created by a less advanced people. I mean, S31 had a cure to the disease, so, humans must have figured out a cure for their own disease. It doesn't make sense that the Dominion couldn't find a cure to it.
Though, despite that, I like the propoganda explanation.
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| Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:03 pm |
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It also is going to depend on where the Cure came from, and what it was based on. It's entirely possible that a small group knew of the cure, and how it was made. Perhaps, the Dominion was not able to get a good 'sample' of the virus to study? Maybe the only pluasible way they could have studied it, they felt would have 'defiled' their 'gods'?
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It's certainly possible, Chris. Although, I feel that it is possible it might be a plot hole. I don't know...
I read somewhere that originally the mutagenic virus was meant to be created by the Vorta. Now that would have been really interesting.
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