Prove you're not an android

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• Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s with Klingons using cloaking technology?

  Isn’t that a pretty dishonorable way to fight? How do they square that circle?

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really cool analysis, thank you.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People who discuss the contradictory and hypocritical nature of Klingon honor are without honor.

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    • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • JTheDoc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They must be dishonored in the most honourable way.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty good discussion in my old post here: lemmy.ca/post/5380703

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    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really appreciate the in-universe analysis presented here. Thanks.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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).

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  • shutz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I actually really like this thought. That never occurred to me before.

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  • Shawdow194@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair I bet it was developed to directly compete against cloaked Romulan craft

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  • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing is more honorable than victory

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • 7of9@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Call me Tasha 'cause I’m posting this reply on Android!

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• TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Made my day, thank you. I’d like to share the pic with my Trekkie friends if that’s grand with you. :)

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨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!

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    • TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you. I’ll kindly remember that when your next amazing OC meme drops. :)

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• PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An android could beat this one better than a person

  youtu.be/IIFjFF_BzY8?si=4zgwwA3PDBghS-pB

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Resistance is futile.

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  … I’ll be back.

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• brymc81@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obviously the horizontal middle three, with wing tip guns protruding into the bottom left and right

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obviously the two squares top right.

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