Prove you're not an android
Submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
7of9@startrek.website 6 months ago
Call me Tasha 'cause I’m posting this reply on Android!
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Made my day, thank you. I’d like to share the pic with my Trekkie friends if that’s grand with you. :)
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 6 months ago
I can’t claim this one - I just found it elsewhere. But even if it was one of my edits, you’re more than welcome to share anything I post!
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Thank you. I’ll kindly remember that when your next amazing OC meme drops. :)
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Putting deep field images in this sub is just cruelty. We’ll be long dead before we depart this planet, much less head for other galaxies.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 6 months ago
An android could beat this one better than a person
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Resistance is futile.
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…… I’ll be back.
brymc81@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Obviously the horizontal middle three, with wing tip guns protruding into the bottom left and right
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Obviously the two squares top right.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What’s with Klingons using cloaking technology?
Isn’t that a pretty dishonorable way to fight? How do they square that circle?
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Klingons are traditionally a standin in Star Trek for the Red Scare (60s era caricature of communism). What you have to understand is that the cold war of the era was simultaneously a display of might, but also fraught with spycraft. The Klingons had to represent both of these fears. You couldn’t see what was happening on the other side of the iron curtain (cloaked).
Practically, they later created the technobabble rule that you had to drop your cloak to fire. That somewhat squares the circle regarding honourable combat, while still allowing Klingons to scheme.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Really cool analysis, thank you.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People who discuss the contradictory and hypocritical nature of Klingon honor are without honor.
teft@startrek.website 6 months ago
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JTheDoc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They must be dishonored in the most honourable way.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Pretty good discussion in my old post here: lemmy.ca/post/5380703
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I really appreciate the in-universe analysis presented here. Thanks.
mkwt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think that “Balance of Terror” was the very first episode of Star Trek to feature ship to ship combat with a near peer adversary. The Romulans in that episode got cloaking technology because the screenplay was ripped straight from a WWII submarine movie.
I guess after that point the “submarine” tropes got established, because that style of combat was basically doctrine up until Star Trek (2009).
shutz@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
While the simple explanation that Klingons can get honor to mean whatever they want (see Worf’s “discommendation” arc on TNG, for instance) holds some weight in explaining this, I like to think of Klingons as hunters, as much as warriors. When you hunt, you don’t announce your presence to your prey. You hide until the moment when you pounce and attack. The cloak fits if you look at it this way, at least.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I actually really like this thought. That never occurred to me before.
Shawdow194@kbin.social 6 months ago
To be fair I bet it was developed to directly compete against cloaked Romulan craft
JWBananas@startrek.website 6 months ago
Nothing is more honorable than victory