plothole? (spoilers)


Ok so my memories of this show are a bit hazy but here is the thing: One of the crew gets sick and nothing can be done about it because he can't take strong meds as they would spoil the recycled drinking water. Now the first question is: Why not simply discard his urine? They must have a little more drinking water then they essentially need. Well maybe they don't... so the second question becomes: Why did they even bring medicine they are not able to use?

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Pearson increased his dosage of whatever anti-rads meds they had. (Remember, Zoey refused to take hers before landing on Io.) But, "a good dose of chemo would have helped, but I couldn't risk getting that into the water supply." That seemed speculative on his part. I doubt they had access to chemo... he was only explaining that "even if I could do it, it would hurt everyone else..."
This Moc was truly fantastic. I watch it weekly!

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This Moc was truly fantastic. I watch it weekly!

As do I, especially now that Defying Gravity has begun airing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defying_Gravity_(TV_series)
http://www.hulu.com/defying-gravity

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"Defying Gravity" or "Defying Logic?" What a stupid way to explain gravity. I'm no scientist, but can there be "artificial" gravity?

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Yes, there can. Thats why they used the spinning crew capsules. In space you achieve artificial gravity by rotation.

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But still: Shouldn't they have easily been capable of dissolving the water in the urine into hydrogen and oxygen, then combine them back into pure H2O with no trace of the med's? Even if not 100% effective - that should've saved a lot of the water (an seems to me the most hygienic way of recycling, anyway).

Obviously the screenplay needed a reason why Pearson wouldn't survive - as to add a seminal slice of human drama. And this also underlined the fragile "eco-system" on board Pegasus.

Yet I think it'd been more believable if the med'S simply had not worked.

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Seems like he should have been able to take chemo.

They know that radiation poisoning is a real possibility in space, why would they not have had facilities for such a case in a long term flight that included passing the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn?

It isn't a plot hole, its just plot decision to up the drama quotient and force tears from our eyes - which it did for me - even though in real life that kind of trip would have a contingency for chemo for a long term space flight outside the protective range of our earth's magnetic field.


The great thing about sci-fi is that somewhere , a mission planner medic saw this special and is writing down - must have CHEMO plan for manned mission to mars and will be justifying it's cost to the ESA or NASA.

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