Exactly: the inexperienced people screw up and/or gets manipulated, either way it doesn’t end well.
Agreed, that was very bad and totally uncalled for. And speaking of promising characters that has been missing for a while: apart from the occasional minor scene Adira hasn’t been up to much since the Trill episode...a pity, I like her a lot.
and in 100 years nobody attempted it for some reason, even if a couple of dudes on their own managed in a single year to do most of the work.
Unless Vance knows much more than us, which could very well be.