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Due to Q being Q ...
Oct. 18th, 2016 04:00 pmDue to Q being Q (I get the feeling he shows up if you say his name three times, like Bloody Mary. Or two times, if you're Picard), the Enterprise gets dumped into Earth's orbit either a day before or a day after Zod shows up. Which timing, in your opinion, would be worse?
SO FIRST THINGS FIRST I'm so sorry for the wait, anon—I would love to have a good excuse for you (I broke my arm! I broke BOTH my arms! THE CAT ATE MY TUMBLR) but the truth is I was trying to finish my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
dceu_exchange fic so hard that I forgot Tumblr existed.
ANYWAY. A) You are not wrong (especially about individualized rules for Picard ;D), and B) OH MAN, WHAT A QUESTION.
It's really, really hard to gauge the relative levels of Kryptonian and Federation technology—like, if tractor beams work on Kryptonian ships, or Federation shields can handle Kryptonian weaponry, my answer's totally different than if they don't/can't. Except whether tractor beams work on things or how the shields hold up depends onhow much more of the episode there is to go, let's face it the ~material, right, and/or type of firepower, etc. But assuming I could be sure the Enterprise wouldn't immediately be destroyed by Zod in some kind of grandiose demonstration of power? I don't know, I'm going to say after would be worse. I mean, they could still help repair Metropolis afterward, potentially (as steathily as possible, of course, we don't want the Department of Temporal Investigations having anything to complain about), and that kind of thing.
But if they could help prevent that stuff at all—they would WANT to. I know the Planet staffpeople were fine, but a whole lot of other people must have died in Metropolis, you know? If that could be changed with a little space battle, and/or Zod could be convinced to let the Enterprise go find an M-class planet that's NOT already populated + help get or copy the Codex out of Clark ... I mean, I'm all for it. And I think Picard and Clark would be, too. NOBODY HAD TO DIE, ZOD. *shakes fist* NOT EVEN YOU.
(... And I'm just realizing I wrote all this as though you definitely meant Zod showing up for MoS—if you meant Doomsday/BvS Zod, let me know, though my answer's probably the same!)
SO FIRST THINGS FIRST I'm so sorry for the wait, anon—I would love to have a good excuse for you (I broke my arm! I broke BOTH my arms! THE CAT ATE MY TUMBLR) but the truth is I was trying to finish my
dceu_exchange fic so hard that I forgot Tumblr existed.ANYWAY. A) You are not wrong (especially about individualized rules for Picard ;D), and B) OH MAN, WHAT A QUESTION.
It's really, really hard to gauge the relative levels of Kryptonian and Federation technology—like, if tractor beams work on Kryptonian ships, or Federation shields can handle Kryptonian weaponry, my answer's totally different than if they don't/can't. Except whether tractor beams work on things or how the shields hold up depends on
But if they could help prevent that stuff at all—they would WANT to. I know the Planet staffpeople were fine, but a whole lot of other people must have died in Metropolis, you know? If that could be changed with a little space battle, and/or Zod could be convinced to let the Enterprise go find an M-class planet that's NOT already populated + help get or copy the Codex out of Clark ... I mean, I'm all for it. And I think Picard and Clark would be, too. NOBODY HAD TO DIE, ZOD. *shakes fist* NOT EVEN YOU.
(... And I'm just realizing I wrote all this as though you definitely meant Zod showing up for MoS—if you meant Doomsday/BvS Zod, let me know, though my answer's probably the same!)
