Q; How did the Bringloidi manage to send a distress call when there was, according to the sensors, no such high-tech equipment around?
A; We might assume that it was indeed there, but that the same flares that were upsetting communications also upset the sensors.
Q; If the clones are in the kind of bad shape that Pulaski so inelegantly suggests (she refers to them as being "walking dead" at one point), why try to breed them with the healthy Bringloidi?
A; I suspect that this is on the basis that mixing the two strains will encourage the growth of a hybrid species which will be characterised by a combination of their individual strengths - but hey! What do I know?
Curious, isn't it, that Riker shows such aversion in this episode to being cloned? One Will Riker is unique, he says, but to create others would diminish him in all sorts of ways. You don't hear him complaining too much later on in the series when it is discovered that the transporter has created a duplicate of him. Perhaps this incident gave him pause for thought.
Q; Why isn't the writing on the clone machines in English?
A; My theory is that it's because they were assembled from parts of the machinery that they had with them when they landed there. Not all of it would necessarily have been of Western origin.
The Child Where Silence Has Lease Elementary, My Dear Data The Outrageous Okona
Loud As a Whisper The Schizoid Man Unnatural Selection A Matter of Honour
The Measure of a Man The Dauphin Contagion The Royale Times Squared The
Icarus Factor Pen Pals Q Who Samaritan Snare Up The Long
Ladder Manhunt The Emissary
Peak Performance Shades of Grey