No, we were talking about conflicting EU representations of BDZ operations.
Which is odd, because all the representations have been consistent so far. You're just picking examples that describe the act under different stages. In the case of
Darksaber, it starts at the beginning of a BDZ... so of COURSE its account is going to differ from what is described when a BDZ is
finished.
It would take a helluva lot more than an hour if all she's doing with all turbolasers at maximum strength is starting forest fires.
Please present evidence that that was
all that the turbolasers were doing. She noted that she could see the forest fires. That does NOT automatically exclude her being able to see anything else. Perhaps she just took special notice of the fires because she's a pyromaniac at heart.
What, that you're ignoring prior canon representations of BDZs, and not recognizing the fact that forest fires do not equal slagging?
No, Chucklehead, I'm just pointing out the obvious fact that forest fires at the beginning of a BDZ do not exclude the possibility of slagging by the end.
No, molten rock is not as viscous as water... but melting an entire planetary surface is not going to lead to rapid cooling, and you would certainly have nothing for TIE fighters to mop up.
Really? What about, say, deep planet shelters, and/or heavily shielded surface installations? What about low-orbit spacecraft or stations that, for one reason or another, were spared the BDZ? It's called "being thorough". The Imperials don't know whether or not there might be anything left to check out, but on the off chance that there is, it'd be nice to be prepared for it.
You're looking at this thing from such a limited viewpoint... the viewpoint of someone trying desperately to disprove it. In your desperation, you're making very glaring errors.
I'm neither dishonest nor inaccurate... you should try to meet such standards in the future.
You are being dishonest, indeed. You're claiming that the descriptions of the BDZ's are in odds with each other, when the fact remains that they're not. You're claiming that the presence of forest fires excludes the possibility of slagging, when in actuality it doesn't. You're pointing at little quirks in the written material, looking at things with your own contrary opinion, and refusing to acknowledge any other interpretation.
I'll tell you why your interpretation should be disregarded... it requires the exclusion of evidence, evidence that does not need to be excluded with the proper mode of analyzing. Obviously, the best analysis is that which allows the largest volume of information to be kept.
Ah, yes, the simplicity of a dictionary. Like I said ... a common error. These should get you started on the right track:
Those cites deal with the social implications of gender. In
Q Who?, Q was obviously talking about the purely physical aspects of gender (we can rule out him discussing the social aspects as he hadn't told them anything significant about Borg society at that point).
To be as specific as possible, Q's exact quote is thus: "Interesting isn't it? Not a he -- not a she." (Quoted right from Wong's TNG database, actually).
Again, this is in direct contradiction to
Scorpion and
First Contact, in which it is indisputedly shown that the Borg do, indeed, have gender. Granted, their social structure was made out to be very similar to ants, in which there are a tiny number of females and a huge number of sterile males.
But you're right... "Q was just wrong" is a poor rationalization (and a hasty one, although I defend myself in such that it was just a quick example). The better rationalization was that Q meant "for all intents and purposes, this particular drone is genderless", and didn't bother giving the Enterprise the details.
What, do you think that the turbolasers also aimed at Alderaan to help the process out?
