Dana Shilling wrote:
Even though he's more of a Dr. Who fan, my boyfriend has seen B7, and made what I thought was a good point. If the Federation had only one limiter, or only a few, why not implant it in Blake, whose violent impulses were likely to cause a lot more damage than Gan's?
Wild speculation alert. Limiters *didn't* seem to be commonly used, else I imagine we would have seen more of them on other criminal types. Gan always struck me as an odd candidate, being the most placid temperament in Blake's crew, *one* whole murder to his name and that, arguably, justified. It seemed a tiny bit of an over-reaction to pop a limiter on him. But that's me.
Maybe limiters are expensive. Feds didn't seem to have a whole lot to do with technology of reduced size.
I assume something of Gan made him suitable for an implant.
Gan's implant isn't situated near the amygdala, the site of the brain actually associated with violent impulses and emotional reactions, that is, in the vicinity of the frontal lobes. What's it doing on his crown?
As to containing Blake's violent impulses, I think his impulses would be more of a cerebral nature, thus would reduce a limiter's effectiveness on him. And the crime he was convicted of was not one of a violent nature.
Why does Gan get a limiter for killing a security guard, while Blake, who *nearly* kills someone of arguably more importance - Travis - doesn't?
Jackie