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• brezelradar@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  boils down to

  Stargate 3 panels: 1. Thor (Asgard): We are no longer capable of such thinking, 2. Daniel Jackson: Wait a minute. You’re actually saying that you need someone dumber than you are?, 3. O’Neil: You may have come to the right place.

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  • hstde@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This was a very character building episode, but I still think it was a mistake to send Carter. There’s got to be someone dumber than Carter but with her level of stress resilience.

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• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the real reason Star Fleet is mostly human. Only very exceptional members of other species can stand working with humans. They even talk about this in Enterprise. Before T’Pol, the longest a Vulcan had managed to serve aboard a Star Fleet ship was two weeks. In Lower Decks, Captain Vendome built a crew of entirely Bolians. It’s now my headcanon that this is because they just wanted a break from those damn humans. I believe there’s also an all Vulcan ship in DS9, which was absolutely because they couldn’t stand those humans.

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  • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Judging by its captain, DS9’s all Vulcan ship was probably crewed that way out of sheer racism.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Survival Bias

  What all those comments and discussions gloss over is that the majority of all Star Trek adventures are probably only survivor stories.

  No one would ever talk about the starship that went into Klingon territory to attempt some weird science experiment, tried to eject a warp core as a last Hail Mary save but instead met with three Klingon war ships and got blasted into oblivion never to be heard from again.

  For every one amazing adventurous Star Trek story, there are probably 20 of star ship captains, entire ships or whole crews just either vapourized, blasted, frozen in space, exploded, imploded, teleported, phased, recombined, trapped in an alternate universe or just plain disappeared without explanation.

  Alien species are probably in awe of us not because of how lucky we are but rather how persistent we are in the face of how unlucky we are. They would probably see us as gluttons for punishment.

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They absolutely talk about the ships that just got totally owned by whatever science mystery they were working on. Like 30% of the Next Generation is: The crew of the Enterprise stumbles across an empty Star ship, or an abandoned outpost, and have to figure out what happened (and stop it from happening to them!)

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  • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We also gotta remember, Star Trek is almost always focuses on the big ships. Enterprise, Voyager, Cerritos, they are all important, but I highly doubt the federation needs to deal with a major galactic event every other Tuesday. I doubt the USS Luna had as much adventure as the TItan. Most are standard surveying ships, like a Steamrunner with a crew of 24.

    If they did, the Federation does a shockingly good job.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YOLO

  Federation

  of

  Planets

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminded me of a scene from Talledega Nights.

  Lucius Washington : You’re not gonna live forever. Ricky Bobby : No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it’s not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means? Lucius Washington : No, I don’t know what that means. I guess longer life. Ricky Bobby : No, he didn’t live. It’s just exciting that we’re trying things like that.

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• TheMongoose@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “So we were being chased by bad guys through a really explosive gas cloud nebula thing. Weapons were on the fritz and we couldn’t use shields because if the aforementioned nebula. So I ejected the warp core and blew it up, detonating the nebula and the bad guys while we just scraped out in the nick of time”

  My god man, that’s actually impressive. How were you planning on getting back to literally anywhere else without a warp core?

  “Ah well, I was only the acting captain at the time, so I figured that would be Picard’s problem when he got back…”

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• Big_Boss_77@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I've never seen an episode of any star trek... is this really what it's like? Sounds like it may need to watch it if that's the case.

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  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and no. In a grand scale, yes, humans are seemingly at the center of some of the wildest ass decisions wherein alien species remark how weird humans do things. On a smaller episode scale, not as much but sometimes yeah, the plots are varied and it’s often an exploration of a concept or a specific existing idea with a twist. If you’ve watched Doctor Who, it’s that kind of “flavor of the week” for some portions or even series’, for others it can lean more towards a drama/comedy for a bit and then the run into something like a God or the tackle the problem with male father/son intimacy. It’s a fucking trip.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not played up for laughs like it is here. That said, I first read this year’s ago, and the more I thought about it, the more it fit.

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• negativenull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This needs to be turned into a podcast!!

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