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Spheres, alien influence, and what have you
By MikeNinNH

One thought on Hoshi's apparent psychic powers: is it possible, however unlikely, that maybe she's not pure human? Granted, you'd think they'd have spotted that by now during physicals and what have you, but maybe it's possible. Could it also be a leftover influence from her being mutated a few weeks ago (which could suggest that the other mutated crew members could also have latent residual side effects from the experience)?

Finally, on the spheres: if anything, they most resemble the First Federation's giant tugboat spheres, in that there's a lot of mass and mechanicals but no life on board. Maybe those big FF spheres moved by using gravitational "warping" too for all we know - they sure as heck were big enough. They could also be related to the Dyson Sphere from TNG for all we know. The problem here is that you figure a race would probably build a large object based on a geometric design of some sort, and there are only so many to go around. They couldn't use cubes, since the Borg have used them already (okay, they used the sphere too, but not that big); if they used pyramids, as alluded to elsewhere, they'd be accused of ripping of Stargate SG1. Geometrically, a sphere is a good shape for a big object, for physics/engineering reasons. So why not? As long as the things don't go flying around shooting at things, they're still avoiding direct comparison with the Borg and/or SW.

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