Star Trek: Ceti Alpha V

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    You bet he did. Clone Wars Anakin is hot!
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    That’s cool, but what does that have to do with Kylo Ren?
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    my bad. I don't make it a point to memorize voice actor's names. I assumed we were still talking about Anakin.
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    :wtf:

    We must've watched some very different movies.
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    Movie Anakin is how Hayden Christensen acts. Check out Shattered Glass, where he basically plays Anakin working for The New Republic. :lol:
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    I was going to snark about how this would be X episodes of "sand, sand, and more sand" but if they treated it as Gilligan's Island In Space I would totally be there.
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    The whole "This is Ceti Alpha V!" thing doesn't hold up very well when you think about it too closely.

    We're expected to believe that:

    1) Planets can spontaneously explode.

    2) The Federation wouldn't notice a planet spontaneously exploding. (This one is halfway plausible; TOS was generally pretty vague about where things were, so maybe the Ceti Alpha system is far outside Federation space and they don't have any long-range sensors pointed in its direction.)

    3) The Reliant wouldn't notice that an already-explored system had one planet less than it was supposed to.

    4) The Reliant wouldn't have good enough scans of the system to see that there were four planets with closer orbits than the one they were traveling to instead of five. (If nothing else, the writers should have had Ceti Alpha IV be the one the Reliant thought it was going to and the one that exploded.)
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    The difference being that TWOK is re-watchable, Disco and Picard not so much.
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    A good bit of this was explained more or less in some of the Trek novels.

    Some of the explanation for it is that a miniature black hole caused Ceti Alpha VI to explode, or at least look like it exploded. From Ceti Alpha V it looked like it exploded. And when the black hole hit Ceti Alpha VI, the increase in mass as it the black passed through changed the orbit of Ceti Alpha V. And that when the Reliant approached Ceti Alpha V, they thought it was Ceti Alpha VI because they approached the planet and came to the third planet in (or fourth). The solar system had eight or nine planets, so the third or fourth was thought to be Ceti Alpha VI not V, as they approached from the outermost planet. The outer three or four planets were more or less lined up. And further explained that when the initially was initially mapped the records only showed it to have a star and the number of planets. Kirk also never recorded or logged where he left Khan. The novelization of TWOK also shows Chekov being uneasy and apprehensive about the entire part of the Ceti Alpha system but not really remembering why.

    Some of it is reaching and requires to just be accepted, not perfect but can have some validity.
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