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• Haus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a subset of Chief Petty Officers and CPO adjacent people who are Trekkies, and for whom O'Brien's rate and/or rank is... a fountain of disappointment.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Theres no money or pension involved in starfleet. The post scarcity space communism pretty much lets anyone do whatever they like.

    The rank mainly have to do with authority, and it didn’t seem like the chief really cared about being in charge. He just cared about making things work, and not having to kill people unless they really needed killing.

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    • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was watching Rolling With Difficulty, and they had to pass through a portal that you can only enter if you’re genuinely despondent. So Dani, the ship’s engineer, imagines a world where everything is working and there’s nothing to fix, and she immediately drops through the portal.

      It’s hilarious because they were fighting a villain whose whole ideology is “entropy is inevitable, stop struggling to live”, and he keeps trying to tempt Dani to his side, and he just does not understand her as a person because every time he says “everything is going to rust and fall apart”, she says “great, then I’ll have more stuff to fix”.

      Anyway Rolling With Difficulty is basically a Star Trek D&D campaign. They sail the astral sea between planes, seeking out strange new worlds.

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      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s a pretty rad plot line. I’ll check the series out.

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