Dana Shilling wrote:
But I'll never know why it wasn't set up explicitly as a top-secret, elite post with a colony of super-loyalists? Sooner or later, SOMETHING was bound to go wrong or at least need routine maintenance after the lifespans of the Star One denizens.
All right, how's this? Maybe the Star One computer was set up to monitor the technicians and call somebody (somebody with ultra-high security clearance, of course) when enough of them had keeled over? That somebody could then arrange for replacements, and there could be another round of mindwipings as to the coordinates. A chink in the absolute security they were trying to set up, certainly, but one the Federation wouldn't expect to be necessary for many years, given careful medical screening of the technicians. It *would* explain why the Andromedans felt it necessary to duplicate the technicians, assuming they were aware of this fact: they'd have to fool the computer. It could also provide an additional confirmation to Servalan: Avon shot an Andromedan some time before Jenna sent the distress call, which might have registered as the death of a technician. Servalan *might* then just have received a distress signal from Star One and *knew* something was up, which is why she responded as quickly as she did, without questioning what Blake was up to.
I'm not sure I quite buy that myself, but it seems at least vaguely plausible, I think...