Would you rather be on the Ceti Alpha 5 or 6 planet and why ?

[BDuncan]

Would you (seriously or humorously) rather be on
Ceti Alpha 5 (where Khan was exiled by Kirk), or Ceti Alpha 6 and please say why, in terms of any witty things you'd do and/or get up to.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Where's the "neither planet" option?

 

[RoJoHen]

Ceti Alpha VI...exploded. Why would I want to be on it?

 

[The Trekster]

Are you posting this for some homework assignment or something?

 

[T'Girl]

One train train leaves New York City, traveling east at seventy miles per hour.

A second train leaves Boston, traveling west at sixty-five miles per hour.

They're both on the same track and when they collide all aboard both trains will be killed.

Question, which train would you rather be on?

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[DonIago]

I think this is akin to asking whether you prefer a quick and unexpected death or a slow and lingering one you can see coming months in advance.

As I'm well aware that I don't have superior DNA, I'll vote for Ceti Alpha 6. Especially after reading "To Reign in Hell".

Between that book and Destiny the authors have really put some Trek characters though pretty horrifying circumstances.

 

[The Wormhole]

Do we know if Ceti Alpha VI could even support life?

 

[sbk1234]

Rule of thumb: I try not to be on planets that explode.

 

[T'Girl]

Chekov: " ... the antimatter charges are in place, in one years time Ceti Alpha Six will explode."

 

[Anji]

If I remember my TWOK correctly, Ceti Alpha Five was a nice enough planet to sustain life otherwise Kirk would not have deposted the refugees there.

It was only after Ceti Alpha Six exploded that as Khan put it, it was "lain waste."

 

[DonIago]

Hm. A whopping six months in a rather rough paradise followed by interminable years on a dustball.

Yep, I'll take the exploding planet.

 

[BDuncan]

Good replies. I'm well aware of the conundrum-ish nature of the question, which is why I thought it'd be fun to ask.

 

[KL700]

Good topic.

 

[MikeS]

If there was a nuclear war I'd run into the blast rather than live through the ensueing horror. Likewise I choose Ceti Alpha VI.

This isn't because I'm a shithouse who won't fight to survive. I just know my limits and to give up when things are futile.

 

[DonIago]

^Seems reasonable enough to me. At least one of Khan's people (besides himself) went a little loopy during their exile, and presumably they have stronger minds as well as bodies. If their first acts upon achieving freedom hadn't been mired in violence I might have felt sorry for them. At minimum, if they could have been taken alive, I'd hope the Federation might have shown them a hint of leniency (a -hint-) for all the crap they'd gone through.