So how would it work? The Vulcans would not let a bunch of people just beam down from these ships without scanning them first and discovering a bunch of Romulans inside. it would be like using the Trojan horse when they knew full well that the horse was going to be inspected inside and out before i...

Secondly, I don't think the Vulcans were going to just blindly bring these ships in. Probably not. It's a damned good thing that nobody thinks that they had to do so. So how would it work? The Vulcans would not let a bunch of people just beam down from these ships without scanning them first and di...

Not quite. the original trojan horse, was "Get your guys into enemy territory by making them look like something the enemy doesn't need to worry about wants to welcome into it's territory. " Fixed. First of all, what Sonic Glitch said. Secondly, I don't think the Vulcans were going to jus...

But not easily detected as being your troops. The aim is to disguise them as something. You can disguise them as a giant statue of a horse. You can also disguise them as empty space . No, a Trojan horse involves disguising your transport as something harmless. Hiding it completely is called camoufl...

Actually, the idea of a Trojan horse is to move your troops in an easily-detected, obvious manner - just in a conveyance which appears to be something other than a troop conveyance. The Greeks didn't sneak into Troy, the were brought in by the Trojans. But not easily detected as being your troops. ...

If the D'deridex could hold a large number of troops, why would they need to put some troops on the Vulcan ships where they could be more easily detected? Because the Vulcan ships were the Trojan horse that made the entire op possible in the first place. A cloaked vessel would also serve well as a ...

When did I say the warbird can't hold ANY troops? My bad... I made the assumption that when you argued against the idea that the D'Deridex can hold troops, that meant that you thought that the D'Deridex couldn't hold troops. I know, hard to believe how I came to that conclusion. I was arguing again...

OK... even if we assume that the warbird would have been at maximum capacity - see a much prior post for why that may not be the case - then the conclusion would be, "If the warbird was only holding x troops, then her maximum capacity was x troops," definitely NOT "The warbird was on...

I meant that the 747 would have made the flight even if it wasn't packed to capacity. The bosses of the airline can't just order more people to buy tickets. On the other hand, if the romulans want to land as many troops as they can and only have enough volunteers to fill it up half way, they aren't...

But I wasn't using it to refer to operational success. I was using it to refer to whether it was worth the Romulans continuing. How are those things separate? Operational success = success of the operation. The only reason for the Romulans to "poison pill" the transports and cease the mis...

...I want to post my thoughts on this, but I don't have the will. Just a random question and sorry if this was already brought up: Was it ever mentioned that there was only three transports and only one warbird? I mean do the Romulans really need to decloak fifty ships to destroy transports? You're...

You'll forgive me for snipping out the parts where we are in agreement... 5. Geordi states the number of troops on the three Vulcan ships as being over 2000. Assumption: 2000 troops is a large enough percentage to make the difference between success and failure. Indeed. Here's where we get to the sh...

Double post.

I think you're conflating attack with differing viewpoint. Yes, some of us use... "colorful metaphors." Yes, some of us disagree with you on certain points and take advantage of the same opportunity to voice our opinions as you do to voice yours. Rather than unfair, that seems to be the h...

This review led me on a search for the music, and I think this may be my favorite rendition: http://youtu.be/bGXnkFrhpR8 I've never heard a live performance of that before. I know there was an orchestral version on CD (I have the CD) which Jay Chattaway wrote (it's the same arrangement as the one y...