How hard can it possibly be?

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In their defense, they had no idea that one guy had a mindworm queen inside him.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I really want to see the follow up to that thread. They sent a signal and then… nada.

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    Also just love this roundhouse kick.

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ahem, that's a crescent kick.

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    • ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Word on the street was that it was supposed to be a setup for the Borg

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He was a commander, not an admiral.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And then Riker blew up his head.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dunno.

  How do we select politicians? Maybe they do something similar?

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  • ipacialsection@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect a lot of “evil admirals” were promoted by votes from, or just to appease, reactionary political movements.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah kinda. In politics there’s going to be scenarios someone has to choose between doing the right thing or doing what’s best for their career. And yeah, militaries have politics at the top, just not the left-right politics that’s common in a democracy. These political scenarios filter out the “do the right thing” people and prevent them from advancing to the top. Not all of the time, but often enough that there’s a higher percentage of shitty people in leadership positions then you’ll find in the general population.

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No one that would do that job well wants the role.

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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exhibit A: Admiral Kirk. Spent most of his admiralty getting back into the center chair lol

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    • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And after that, most of the “good” admirals we meet are commanding their own ships still.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very good point…

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe the way they deal with bad captains is to “kick them upstairs” to admiral

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or all the competent officers refuse to take desk jobs when they can fly around space enjoying all the green women (and men) they can find.

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• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stupid question: What admirals are we talking about here?

  Here are the admirals I remember from 90s trek

  • Janeway, who got the job because she was hyper competent at killing Borg.
  • Picard, who we can assume is generally good at his job
  • That dude who was a dick to Riker, who ended up being really good at his job
  • Ross, who was generally good at his job, even if Section 31 kinda did whatever they wanted
  • That admiral who showed up and told Picard he was an idiot for not using Hugh to kill the Borg
  • Those admirals that were all secretly alien worms or something
  • Tom Paris’s dad, who was just kinda there
  • The lady running the inquisition, who clearly got the role in no small part due to her father
  • That other admiral who ended the inquisition trials after he saw what I shitshow the entire thing was.

  In general they seemed pretty good at their job.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Point 3: Admiral Edward Jellico. You come to our house, you get my admiral’s name right!

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  • LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Admiral Patrick was also brilliant

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  • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Janeway, who got the job because she was hyper competent at killing commited genocide against the Borg.

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    • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like you lose your right to complain about being victims of genocide after the second or third alien race you yourself genocide, especially when your entire race is essentially a bunch of enslaved thralls who almost always bounce the second they get free will back.

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    • Damage@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s like saying that eradicating a virus is genocide

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also note that there are no non-human badmirals.

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  Closest might be General Oh from PIC.

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  • Magiccupcake@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Admiral Pasalk may not have been evil, but he was a jerk.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Spies don’t count lol

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  • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are hardly any non-human admirals at all though, so it’s not a significant statistic.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All the more reason to point out the continued xenophobia still present within the Federation hierarchy… but also to make a light-hearted reference to Arrested Development.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The good ones commit crimes to get themselves busted back down to captain.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very good point there

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• Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dont see the issue

  -Planetary Union

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the Planetary Union is much better at that kinda stuff

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• GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Power corrupts.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We'll have to ask admiral Patrick if he thinks the cream rises to the top.

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