Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Gracie Is Pregnant

In Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales -- the best one -- it's suggested that in the Kirk era Starfleet doesn't recognise cetacean intelligence; over the course of the -- best -- film Kirk's crew go on a quest to find whales to solve an extinction-level problem, and along the way discover that they are not simple animals, but sapient beings capable of higher communication.

Given the "new life and new civilisations" thing it's reasonable to assume that the events of the film lead Starfleet and the Federation to formally recognise cetacean intelligence.

In other words, is Star Trek IV the secret origin story of Cetacean Ops?

(Oh, and it's technically 21 years since I started the blog! Crikey! Although the first few posts weren't very meaningful so I'm not sure they count.)
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  1. Jonathan Linneman30/7/24 11:42 pm

    The craziest part is that Starfleet should have been able to observe the success of the groundbreaking dolphin Darwin aboard the seaQuest DSV in...like the 2010s...? So, yeah, definitely behind the curve on that.

    (With more seriousness...I never really thought about that with Star Trek IV, although it's been quite a while since I've seen it. It's a darn good question...how are they not more aware of the depth of cetacean intelligence?)

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