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"We'll just see about that, won't we Mister?"
- James T. Kirk
She joined the United Earth Starfleet, though. If someone wanted to get really pedantic, they could claim there's a possibility she resigned her commission before the transition to the Federation Starfleet.
But yeah, T'Pol, the senior staff of the USS Intrepid, the various admirals we've seen in Disco and SNW, all would have joined Starfleet before Spock.
You know what the funniest part of your little tantrum is? I bet if you checked your language setting, and choose both "English" and "Undefined" you'd find that there's multiple posts per day, and you just haven't seen them because you couldn't figure out how to set up your account.
Anyways, enjoy your time out.
I still want the story of the one mousey, overworked lieutenant junior grade whose job it is to follow-up on all prime directive violations.
Investigator: Alright, Captain, let's begin, shall we? Apparently you and your crew intervened in a labour dispute between two independent worlds, and taught the previously exploited civilization about unions, and now their entire social development has radically shifted. Is there anything in that basic statement you'd like to dispute?
Captain: Uh...when did this happen?
Investigator: Stardate 43012.7.
Captain: That was eight months ago!
Investigator: Correct. I've had an entire backlog to work my way through, and this is the earliest I was able to address your situation.
Captain: Five months ago my entire ship was trapped in a time vortex and we all deaged to adolescence.
Investigator: ...I did think you looked rather young.
Captain: We don't even have any memory of those events, but it does sound pretty dope. Surely you can't hold us responsible for actions we haven't yet committed, and might not actually commit if we were put into similar circumstances again.
Worf gets away with a lot of things that would violate the Prime Directive in regards to the Klingon Government because he has dual citizenship and is a member of Klingon nobility.
Even with Worf being a Klingon, and a recognized member of Klingon society, he still had to resign his commission to leave the Enterprise and go fight for Gowron's forces in the civil war against the Duras' sister's supporters.
Worf: Captain, we must intervene. The Duras family is corrupt and hungry for power with no sense of honour or loyalty. They represent a grave threat to the security of the Federation. Captain, you and I know that they have conspired with Romulans in the past. If they should be victors in this war, they will surely form a new Klingon-Romulan alliance. That would represent a fundamental shift of power in this quadrant. Starfleet must support Gowron. It is in the interests of both the Federation and the Empire. I beg you, support us in our cause.
Picard: Mister Worf, I don't have to lecture you on the principle of non-interference. As Starfleet officers, we have all sworn an oath to uphold that principle whatever our personal feelings. I'm sorry. I must refuse your request.
Picard: Mister Worf. I'm afraid I must recall you to duty. The Enterprise will be leaving this sector immediately.
Worf: Captain, I respectfully request that I be allowed to take an extended leave of absence.
Picard: Mister Worf, your responsibilities as a Starfleet officer are incompatible with remaining on board a Klingon ship during a time of war.
Worf: Captain.
Picard: I order you to return to duty at once.
Worf: Then I resign my commission as a Starfleet officer.
They just conveniently forget that's the case in the final scene of "Redemption II" when Worf asks Picard for permission to return to duty. Guess he never got around to filing the paperwork.
Yeah, that was a good bit. One of my favourite moments of the episode.
Hey there! So it looks to me that your issue here is two fold.
First off, you seem to believe that there's not enough new daily content, and that the lemmy community is somehow "dying" because of that. Obviously activity in a small group of 6.5 k members (when did that happen, I could have sworn we were still at 2k) is going to be somewhat less than the 620k subscribers to the reddit sub. It is simply the nature of any form of social media going back to the BBS groups and chat rooms of the mid-90s that the majority of people are going to lurking as opposed to posting and commenting. That's perfectly fine.
And the second problem is loyalty to a specific social media platform.
So, how do we solve these issues?
For the first, be the change you want to see in the world. If you don't think there's enough interesting discussion happening, feel free to post something that would potentially generate some discussion. Lurking is fine, but if you're going to complain that there aren't enough contributions, than it is on you to contribute.
As for your apparent feelings that everyone should scamper back to reddit for the reason outlined above. And really, the only way to fix that is if you go outside for a walk.
Anyways! Consider this an official mod warning. If you want to post about Star Trek, feel free. If you want to be a weird little troll, no one here is interested.
Pelia was in Vermont, and La’an specifically says they had to bribe a border cop to cross into the States.
If she was in Vancouver, they would have had to have taken a plane each way.
Well, VOY would never be so crass as to explicitly say so, but “Body and Soul” is the episode where the subject of Tuvok’s pon farr comes up.
And on Vulcan they just call it masturbation.
While David Gerrold canonised the “T” as standing for “Tiberius” in “Bem”, we did know that his middle name started with the letter “T” as far back as “Mudd’s Women” IIRC. You undoubtedly already knew this
I actually was not aware of that! Interesting that “Where No Man Has Gone Before” and “Mudd’s Women” had different middle initials for Kirk considering the later was originally conceived as possible second pilot as well. Too bad “The Omega Glory” didn’t also get in on the game.
The first episode of the season had Spock discussing with Doctor M’Benga the fact that embracing his anger to help him fight the Gorn last season in “All Those Who Wander” broke down his mental conditioning. It’s also been shown in three of four recaps at the beginning of episodes this season. I would assume they’re building towards something.
As for Spock “never” having emotions, I’d suggest rewatching some TOS. His wry enjoyment when Uhura teases him with her song in “Charlie X”, his outburst at seeing Kirk alive at the end of “Amok Time”, and just how ridiculously horny he is in “The Cloud Minders” all come to mind, never mind those instances when he’s affected by some outside force suppressing his conditioning.