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“It is unclear how plant life could survive on Dakala. One scene, however, shows the surface covered in the dim light of a nearby star, perhaps supplying enough
by baxtr 8y ago
“It is unclear how plant life could survive on Dakala. One scene, however, shows the surface covered in the dim light of a nearby star, perhaps supplying enough energy for some form of photosynthesis. Another theory, from the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 177), is that the plant and animal life was supported by the surface heat from volcanic vents.“
From http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala
- flomo 8y agoFYI, you're just quoting some technobabble. Back in reality there were popular magazines like Discover that would have flashy covers about things like ROUGE PLANETS! Mostly just sensationalism. Some semi-unemployed Hollywood writer would be paging through these while smoking out and get inspiration for a script. That is Star Trek's scientific insight. And I'm a trek fan. OP probably just doesn't know a lot of this stuff was "ripped from the headlines" (of popular science magazines).
- baxtr 8y agoYes, you’re right. I think it’s fun though :-) sci-fi is by its nature just technobabble, see the annoying protomolecule stuff in “The Expanse”
- restalis 8y agoI thought that the volcanic activity is a phenomenon happening only in orbiting planets, due to a number of forces that include star's gravitational one.