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Starfleet is a Space Navy (military fleet)

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Did Picard say warp nacelles are not milit...er not coloured with rainbow stripes????

That was a TMP only thing....wwwwwwwooooooorrrrrmmmmmhhhhoooolllleeeeeee eeeeeffffffeeeeeecccccttttttttttt.

Which may also explain the various typing bugs on here.
 
No wonder the Klingons and Feds were at war, the Klingons were looking for real warriors to fight but had to deal with puny explorers instead. Must have really hurt their ego
 
Yeah, especially since there is no need. Starfleet is what it is. You cannot compromise about a fact (even if it's a fact pertaining to a fictional universe).

And therein lies the rub....for if there is no compromise, the ramifications alone mean the only stated fact is that Starfleet is not military....or many of the hero protagonists in Trek suddenly become unreliable narrators at best.
 
No wonder the Klingons and Feds were at war, the Klingons were looking for real warriors to fight but had to deal with puny explorers instead. Must have really hurt their ego

And their ridges. Er. Cranial ones. Explorers kept beating them with Shat Fu and science. But mostly with compassion.
 
And therein lies the rub....for if there is no compromise, the ramifications alone mean the only stated fact is that Starfleet is not military....or many of the hero protagonists in Trek suddenly become unreliable narrators at best.
Well they do say actions speak louder than words...They narrate one thing with mouths and another with their finger on the trigger when war is declared.
 
And therein lies the rub....for if there is no compromise, the ramifications alone mean the only stated fact is that Starfleet is not military....or many of the hero protagonists in Trek suddenly become unreliable narrators at best.
No, the ramification is that what we're shown again, and again, and again, is what's valid. And that is that Starfleet very much functions as a military, ergo it's a military. If that makes Picard an unreliable narrator in that sense, then so be it.
 
When a Starfleet vessel gets the hell outta Dodge when the Romulans, Klingon, Dominion pizza or whoever starts calling I'll accept their 'dont shoot us, we're just explorers' mantra
 
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