And Deforest Kelly on occasion out acted both of them. To think that the lead always is or has to be the best actor of the cast is ridiculous. It's hardly always the case.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x02 - "Far From Home"
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@Agony_Boothb has got a point. This has nothing to do with "Far From Home". You're arguing in the wind, seeing who'll answer. It's not the first time you've done this in the thread. It's a pattern.
If you want to respond to specific posters who brought up that tangent (and no one did here, beyond talking about acting in TOS), then have it. Otherwise, people are going to wonder "Who are you talking to? And what and why are you getting so worked up?" It's confusing and looks like it came from out of nowhere.
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Yup. He's been watching some DS9. Dukat in "Sacrifice of Angels" to be exact. The last episode where he's sane. So a deep-cut dig he was trying to work in there that he hoped no one would notice, so it would slip under the radar.
Replaying the scenes in my mind and marveling how Alexander Courage's TOS music cues would fit in absolutely. You know the ones I mean. Georgiou's fighting. The floating rocks. Saru's affirmation of Starfleet ideals. Tractoring from the ice. It's all there. Wonderful!
We're Starfleet, we don't ride.
Get Stuart Baird to direct an episode. It'll have an ATV.
My guess would be that the Federation was somehow responsible for the burn. The specifics might have been covered up largely, but it was enough to shatter the Federation and damaged their PR image!
I don't even think that's necessary, though we definitely can't rule it out.
Any time a major political/military power's capability is called in to question, it faces challenges. After the burn, the Federation was unable to even explain it, let alone promise people it wouldn't happen again. They had no solutions, no answers. They looked weak.
Weakness of such institutions leads to all kinds of people standing up and screaming about about those institutions have been holding them back all along, and if we just got rid of them we'd all be better off. Maybe they didn't want to remain tethered to a bureaucracy that had demonstrably failed them. Buttressed by a belief that going it their own way, servants to no collective or cooperative, would benefit them in spite of the ample evidence that cooperation is the better choice, they chose to walk away. Maybe they'd been looking for any excuse to destroy it all along, and The Burn was just a convenient excuse.
Look at the world around you, right now, today. You'll see plenty of people eager to run away from cooperation, to isolate, to barricade, to withdraw. They look inwards, rather than out. They all have their own reasons and rhetoric, but it all more or less stems from the same instinct, I think. When things go bad, people look to those like them for safety, security and reassurance. It's easy to accept all kinds of people when things are going well, but as soon as things take a down turn, people turn on anybody who doesn't meet some definition of "us" vs "them". People look inwards, rather than out.
When The Burn happened, the various parties and groups who made up the Federation did what everyone does. They turned inwards. Maybe they just didn't see The Federation as "us", but rather a whole lot of "them" holding "us" back. Sad, but not at all surprising.
Given how lawless the 32nd century seems to be, if the v’draysh are the neo fascist reincarnation of the federation, it would likely be very insecure, under threat of invasion or destruction at any time, and quite possibly resource starved. It’s no surprise they are at war with many, they want the resources.
or a shuttle...I mean, for once we would have all agreed it was the right time to use a discovery shuttle!
(Which, by the way, has its own communications systems...)
Indeed, and given we know that the theme for this season is "restoring hope" it would tonally be very off if an "evil" federation remnant played a major role in the season.
The Federation just needs to be made great again.
More like Zareh wants to "Keep the Federation Great."
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