Just noticed something I never heard before

POSTED BY: dbell46
UPDATED: Saturday, July 3, 2004 07:13
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DBELL46

Thursday, July 1, 2004 2:47 AM

I was watching Bushwacked for the umpteenth time today, and when the alliance soldier tells the
captain the reaver has escaped he says "get a guard on the nursery". I'm embarrassed that I've never
noticed that before after all the times I've seen this ep.

He wasn't talking about plants. Did alliance ships routinely have children on them ala ST:NG, or
was there some special reason they were carrying them that time?

Just wanted to hear what people might think about this.

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RAWDEAL

Thursday, July 1, 2004 3:53 AM

It is a possibibility that the huge cruiser carries the families of the crew with them.
Anything is possible with alliance

THUNDAR

Thursday, July 1, 2004 5:53 AM

The way the ship is designed, it does look somewhat like a floating city.

What I don't get is how one strange looking guy can go from the med facilities all the way back to the dock area and not get stopped.

ECGORDON

Thursday, July 1, 2004 11:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Thundar:
The way the ship is designed, it does look somewhat like a floating city.

What I don't get is how one strange looking guy can go from the med facilities all the way back to the dock area and not get stopped.

The medical facilities are probably quite close to the docking area, as in the emergency rooms in our hospitals.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

EVILTOBZ

Thursday, July 1, 2004 11:46 AM

not to mention the bit where he was killing the people he came across, such as the guard in the docking area when they go to the ship looking for him. security wouldn't be particularly tight, as they wouldn't be expecting anyone to attack them.

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LJOSALF

Thursday, July 1, 2004 11:20 PM

Ahhh! But is the nursery for human children or something more precious, say one of only a few broad spectrum bio-diversity archives available to the border planets? Something along the lines of a creche that can produce plants and animals from Earth That Was to kickstart a terraforming effort or correct an ecological tailspin....

Ljosalf

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GUNRUNNER

Friday, July 2, 2004 12:37 AM

I think nursery is just another word for "Sick Bay" or "Infirmary" or "Med Deck" or "Medical" ETC.

The word just got expanded in meaning over the next 600 years.

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JK

Friday, July 2, 2004 2:18 PM

I hadn't noticed such a line either, but I like the idea that the Alliance cruisers are full of the crewmen's families. It'd lend a wonderful shade of grey to the Alliance, they have families, they're not just evil men in grey uniforms and hats that want to tread all over us brown-coated little people.

JK

DAWNSISTER

Friday, July 2, 2004 4:22 PM

I've never heard that before either! I will be checking that out. Bushwacked is in my top 3 too.

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LJOSALF

Saturday, July 3, 2004 2:20 AM

The use of the word nursery in Bushwhacked was certainly deliberate and while it may have been placed with the intention of suggesting that there are tender young humans travelling about aboard the Alliance cruisers, I still think that it is worth bearing in mind the current alternate definitions of the word and how they might be the point of origin for drift in meaning. Of particular interest to me are entries 3 and 4 below.

From the online version of the American Heritage Dictionary: Nursery:
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. nurs·er·ies
1. A room or area in a household set apart for the use of children.
2a. A place for the temporary care of children in the absence of their parents. b. A nursery school.
3. A place where plants are grown for sale, transplanting, or experimentation.
4. A place in which something is produced, fostered, or developed.

Ljosalf

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