Overachieve much?

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• DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The best part of the whole thing is that it worked.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen lots of people asking why the Romulans stuck to the treaty after the Federation broke it. But really when you think about the realpolitik/geo galactic politics of it, it was a massive win for the Federation.

    If the Romulans said “Hey this is bullshit! Our treaty is over!” then the Federation would just say “aight lmao, we’ll just use this cloaking tech that’s way better than yours. And it can be trivially retrofitted to existing ships, our whole fleet will have this tech.”

    By flexing that they can make this tech, it made clear to the Romulans that sticking to the treaty was something that was absolutely within their best interest, whereas before they weren’t so sure about. They thought they had a technological upper hand and were being hamstrung by their inability to fully leverage it to crush the Federation.

    Bonus: it showed the Klingons that they too shouldn’t provoke the Federation too much, because they’d also lose what they thought was an advantage they had as well.

    The whole thing was a staggering power-play by the Federation. They fulfilled the Speak softly and carry a big stick mantra perfectly.

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    • DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s such a crazy display on just how advanced the Federation really is that a small group of rogue Star Fleet officers were able to successfully leapfrog the cloaking tech to such a degree. There was another episode where the Romulans tried and failed to create that same technology but I can’t remember if it was before or after Pegasus.

      In DS9, a Vorta makes a comment about Star Fleet engineers being able to turn rocks into replicators and he really wasn’t that far off.

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If that phase cloak thing was attached to photon torpedoes it would make them invincible as well since they could phase back beyond enemy shields. Or inside the enemy ship.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like that whole Tumblr post about humans sticking warp cores together lol

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    • dejected_warp_core@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For the uninitiated: “The United Federation of Hold my Beer.”

      Yes, that explains what Humans bring to the table: sheer, ill-informed, unbridled, un-jaded, undistilled, optimism.

      It also explains why Voyager sports bio-neural components, why 1701-D is comically oversized compared to its crew compliment, why outfitting the entire Federation fleet with recycled Borg tech (Picard) got the green light, and why bridge workstations have a failure mode that kills the operator with heavy-metal concert pyrotechnics the moment it’s shaken too hard. Nobody told them they couldn’t do that, so they did.

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  • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably this

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tal Shiar bout to go do some “business research”

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the brains behind the operation?

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  Of course, Riker had best keep his mouth shut about the whole thing.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like I recognize that guy but I’m not sure who he is… who is he?

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Erik Pressman who captained the USS Pegasus. Real piece of work.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You would have thought that the Federation could have used it during the Dominion War. A cloak so powerful you can’t even be shot at?

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  • rkw_social@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would think the romulans would have some questions.

    Hey Starfleet, you developed that cloak awfully fast even though you weren’t supposed to be researching it until five days ago.

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    • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uhh we’re just better ig

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  • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The alliance with the Romulans during the war was tenuous at best. They never could have swung that. At minimum they would have needed to share the tech.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a really good point, why didn’t they use it?

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    • blegeg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know it wasn’t, but in my head I always figured this was the cloak of the cloaked minefield in front of the wormhole. Then the dominion couldn’t just fire a torpedo and blow up the grid. That made the minefield make more sense to me.

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• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve just finished Voyager and I’m between treks, what series is this meme from so I can binge watch it for the next month

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  • Implement1875@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Next Generation

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    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t remember this one… was it the one where Geordi and Ensign Roe turn invisible?

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