Thank you. I thought I was losing what's left of my mind.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I recently read thru the letters my father wrote home from his pilot training and combat time in WWII. All thru training in the states, he told his Mom that while he did want to do his part in the fighting, he really didn't care if they sent him to a combat post overseas, or he just became a flight instructor stateside. He just really loved flying and as long as he got to that, he was happy. Once he got into combat in the Pacific (in the last month of the war), he enjoyed buzzing around the islands in a P-47 on uneventful combat air patrols much more than the long-range attack missions up to Japan and back. He kept wondering why the Japanese didn't just quit, they sure weren't winning.
Sometimes combat decisions are driven by the top, despite you (agree / disagree)-ing with the situation.
On a slightly off tangent, did your father write in cursive or print?
Many modern youths are lacking the education to read/write in cursive.
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KIRA: This war's over. You lost.
FEMALE CHANGELING: Have I? I think you'll find that neither the Jem'Hadar or the Breen will agree with that assessment. They will fight to the last man.
KIRA: And what will that accomplish?
FEMALE CHANGELING: Isn't it obvious? You may win this war, Commander, but I promise you, when it is over you will have lost so many ships – so many lives – that your victory will taste as bitter as defeat.
This misses my point but you did write it super well.
I've had the skills to write in cursive since I was in elementary school and unless I've needed to use it for an art or writing project in school or for an adult creative endeavor I haven't had to care about it.
I know it. I can do it. My cursive script is pretty clean and good if I do say so myself. I'm not shabby at all. But it's just a "who cares right now" situation.
I know it. I can do it. My cursive script is pretty clean and good if I do say so myself. I'm not shabby at all. But it's just a "who cares right now" situation.
I can do both. Shame a lot of other people can't but, hey, that's for someone else to solve if they actually think cursive is important enough for the early 21st century American classroom.
I think if the child has an interest then teach them.
Some people's handwriting is so bad (like my dad) that it's like trying to break Enigma!
I am a bit disappointed that my handwriting isn't as nice as it used to be.
Starfleet don't just defend itself. Starfleet defends Earth, the Federation, under certain situations the Federations allies, and others.
Why would a instrument of science have the capacity to destroy half a continent? It's right in front of you, Starfleet is the Federations war fighters, the defenders of the Federations borders.
It was Paris that said that Voyager's design was optimized for combat. Picard said in TNG's first season that Starfleet possessed "pure science ships," the implication is that the Enterprise D isn't such.
Probably because it has no relevance in modern times.
I prefer to think of Starships as instruments of exploration. While exploring, one must occasionally defend oneself.
Using them as warships during times of war is simply a necessary evil, a last resort. War for Starfleet is always a last resort.
You don't value cursive?
I think cursive is valuable, but that's me.
You do realize that 1x Standard Photon Torpedo, if detonated in Atmosphere, is easily capable of Nuclear Bomb level blasts, right?
That's the Bog Standard Photon Torpedo, this isn't counting any of the numerous more advanced torpedoes that everybody uses or the beam weaponry that everybody uses.
Each Basic Vanilla Photon Torpedo is capable of that level of damage in Atmosphere.
There's a reason why you don't want StarShips bombarding planets with Photon Torpedos, at maximum regular yield, you can easily nuke ANY planet with a basic level StarShip.
That's all w/o using any complicated Nuclear Bomb device that we currently use.
And regular civilians can easily manufacture and own Photon Torpedoes, they're NOTHING in the grand scheme of the Universe, ordinary civilians own StarShips, a Photon Torpedo is NOTHING, and regular folks can easily purchase them for their private StarShips.
It's just bog standard Matter / Anti-Matter that we use for our M/A-M reactors put in a special casing and fired at the opponent.
There will be plenty of people who will sell you the Torpedo Casing & Guidance system specifications, much less home brew it.
There will be ZERO ways of regulating the control of such weapons in open space.
So your average civilian StarShip owner will need to be able to defend against such threats and fight against it with equal power just to survive out in the wilds of space.
There's ALOT of need for Orbital Shields / Turrets / Protection for any colony out there, it'll be too easy to get wiped out by anybody with a grudge & bad intentions.
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Indeed. They are an armed service, and act as such. They don't glorify war but don't shy away from their duty.
Especially in the great ever expanding frontier that is "Space, the Final Frontier".
Never heard of it.
So nobody signs their name when making credit card purchases anymore? Or when signing a lease for renting an apartment? Or signing any legal document?
Sure, no relevance in modern times at all. None whatsoever...
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