The "Cry Baby"

POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Sunday, January 11, 2004 19:26
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SHINY

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:45 PM

Great catch, Blinker! cool...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

CAPTAINCDC

Friday, January 9, 2004 8:49 PM

I agree. I think the moon/asteroid was just put there to have some sort of backdrop. I think the crybaby was put together with spare parts and is disposable. They would not have had time to go back and get it, because the alliance cruiser would have gotten there first and probably destroyed it when they found it and realized they had been tricked. I hesitate to mention this because I figure there are a lot of you that do not like star trek, but they used a similar plot device in the first or second season of star trek: enterprise. Archer was kidnapped by a bounty hunter who meant to turn him in to the klingons. The bounty hunter momentarily disabled enterprise long enough for him to get away. When enterprise was back up and running they started searching for the bounty hunter ship's signature on long range sensors. They found it and pursued. When they got there they found a device similar to the crybaby that the bounty hunter had launched that simulated the ship's signature. It was a wild goose chase. They destroyed the device and had to start their search all over again. I think this is the same thing that mal and crew did. They programmed the crybaby so that when triggered it would simulate the signature of a personnel carrier in distress. The alliance cruiser would have to go after it in hopes of saving many civilian lives. It would only have to fool them long enough so that serenity could take off in the opposite direction. And as far as clicks, in our time it means kilometers, but 500 years in the future and in space it would have to mean a greater distance than 13 kilometers. In space travel that is nothing. Maybe one click is equivalent to one light year. I don't know.

TUNNEL

Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:20 AM

Looks like its a coffee can. So I'd think it would be disposable.

In the commentary Joss says its a coffee can and that the CG guys wanted to put a bunch of background stuff in the frame but he said no because it was only there to get across one peice of information.

I really don't think the planetoid had anything to do with the mechanics of the can or whatnot.

CALHOUN

Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:15 PM

Bah!, Oh well, even if it wasnt by design I still think the Cry Baby's proximity to the plantoid would have the added (albiet inadvertant it seems) advantage of a mass reading to anyone scanning the Cry Baby signals' point of origin.

SOUTHERNSLAYER

Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:26 PM

Jeez Blue Sun make coffee too. who knew.

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