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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x05 - "Empathalogical Fallacies"
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The handling of Ro's earring was pretty clunky. Riker states that she has to follow uniform code, so it's not just him being an asshole. You have to wonder what the code is, with other people clearly wearing items relating to their culture. (Such as Klingon and Native American.) And then VOY reinforces it in Learning Curve. The interpretation that it's all allowed but permission needs to be granted on a case-by-case basis does seem to work best.
That seems like a rather broad statement considering how much trouble Sikhs had to go through to keep their beards and turbans in the US Military.
Besides, I call it "asking permission", but if the first Starfleet officer from Pajamaan 4 doesn't have a meeting with someone about the issue at some point, how does Starfleet find out her fuzzy pink slippers are a religious requirement in the first place?
It reminds me of Troi's uniform. Of course, it was the right thing to put Troi in the standard uniform, in order to emphasize her professionalism. However, it came in the context of Jellico being a dick.
Exactly. Ro arrived under a cloud, so Riker wasn't inclined to cut her any slack, due to her reputation and record. A Bajoran with a distinguished service record probably wouldn't have gotten any flack over her earring.
Well, as demonstrated frequently Starfleet's diplomatic information is often very poor dispersing information, i.e. "Insurrection."
Ro wasn't the first or only Bajoran in Starfleet. Nor was the Enterprise her first assignment.
The earring scene goes like this
As pointed out it seems out of place given the latitude other characters have with their uniforms. Comes across as Riker asserting his authority over a known "troublemaker" and using "The Starfleet Uniform Code" to do so. With a different Bajoran officer he probably wouldn't have cared.
The simple answer is that earrings are not sashes.
Anything that involves piercing or clipping a thing onto a part of the body is going to have a lot more regulations surrounding it then something that's just loosely wrapped around it. If only for safety reasons. And Bajoran earrings in particular are, well, horribly dangerous to be wearing around anything likely to snag them due to the loose hanging chain.
By the 24th century the uniform code had been amended to exclude jewelry.Uhura say "hi"
So not sure what your point here is.
Though I will also note, those are both a lot less likely to snag on something then the loose chain of a bajoran earring.
Nor baldrics.
My point (which should be obvious) is that Starfeet officers have worn dangly earrings. And Ro gets to wear her earring at the end of the episode and continues to throughout the show. The code involving earrings seems "flexible".
I always thought that the only reason Ro's earring was in question was because she was being insubordinate and rude (and also responsible for eight deaths), and Riker felt the need to take her down a peg.
With any other Bajoran crewmember, it wouldn't have been a problem, but Ro needed a bit of extra discipline, and the earring was an excuse.
With any other Bajoran crewmember, it wouldn't have been a problem, but Ro needed a bit of extra discipline, and the earring was an excuse.
It's worth noting that Sito Jaxa does not wear a Bajoran earring.
As so often happens, that's not proof of anything...just worth noting.
"Problem officer" Gerron in VOY doesn't get to wear his. But neither does Celes, who is a fine officer.
Matt Mura on Picard does wear one. And so does Sing. And Shaxs.
As so often happens, that's not proof of anything...just worth noting.
"Problem officer" Gerron in VOY doesn't get to wear his. But neither does Celes, who is a fine officer.
Matt Mura on Picard does wear one. And so does Sing. And Shaxs.
We have seen that T'Lynn transferred to the Cerritos despite not going to SF academy. That would seem to imply that any species local defense training (at least those already part of UFP) is transferrable to SF service (and vice verse).
This also alleviates the in-universe problem of SF Academy only being on Earth (which quite frankly doesn't make any sense)... there should be SF Academy on every member planet with multiple campuses (or SF starbases that are built after the plane joined which would have loads of training facilities and SF staff for local defense, humanitarian missions, science, first contact/dipliomacy, etc).
But, if for example a Vulcan, Andorian or a Betazoid (or humans living on those planets) already have trained at those planets local academies for their own planetary defense force, then its more likely if they develop an interest in joining SF, they just directly transfer.
However, earlier Trek implied that this wasn't 'universal'. If you wanted to serve in SF, you had to go through SF Academy (and SF was deemed to be the main/only starship service for a UFP member planet post joining). The first case I can recall was of Major Kira being given a SF commission in S7 of DS9... and even then I guess we can ascertain that this was kind of an exception rather than the rule (but I suppose it set a precedent).
So, In the case of Bajor, once its met UFP's guidelines for joining (unless the conditions in S5 just prior to the start of the Dominion War would still apply for Bajor joining), it would likely retain its militia, but SF would probably take over in terms of defense since Bajor wasn't too big on building combat capable vessels (although its possible that Bajor would want to create its own local fleet anyway).
First appearance of Sisko since DS9?
He's name-checked in a season two episode of Picard. But yeah, visually.
Watership Down is a hill in England, one of the Hampshire Downs. The book takes place there. A down is a chalkland hill common to the south of England and derives from the old English word dun, meaning "hill".
Yeah, that's definitely more what it's referencing. It's also a very literal description of part of the episode's plot where it essentially turns into Das Boot with the Defiant trying its hand at submarine-style warfare.
The novel Watership Down was turned into an animated film in 1978 with a theme song by Art Garfunkel. Perhaps surprisingly given that it's a story about the society, language, and mythology of rabbits, this turned out to be weapons-grade nightmare fuel, and as a result those of us who stumbled across it on a rainy afternoon during school holidays tend to feel uneasy about it to this day. The Star Trek equivalent would presumably be a movie about tribbles told from a Klingon perspective. "Wov min, meQ rur chenmoH..."
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Good spot.First appearance of Sisko since DS9?
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