Remember Risk Averse Picard was a Junior Lieutenant for forty years.
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09 - "Fissure Quest"
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Remember Risk Averse Picard was a Junior Lieutenant for forty years.
One of the worst mistakes TNG ever made. There is risk adverse and then there is stupidity. Not wanting to be stabbed in the heart shouldn't punish you with mediocrity for the rest of your life.
Some thoughts:
1. Lily Sloane's beliefs that they shouldn't explore their own reality but just the multiverse is actually something I find very disappointing as it is a pretty isolationist view of the galaxy.
2. Garak becoming a doctor is fine to me because it's an alternative to being a tailor. Bashir being a hologram makes perfect sense because he was almost the basis for the EMD 2.0.
3. Curzon Dax gets portrayed here as a very Klingon-esque warrior and I feel that's an appropriate because too many episodes lean on the fact that he was a womanizer when he was someone that could impress the Klingons with his battle prowess as well as had been involved in the diplomacy for multiple wars.
4. T'Pol marrying Trip is alternate universe but we could still assume that she's from something similar to the prime universe.
5. I was surprised Lt. Kim wasn't mirror Harry Kim and wish they'd had Captain Kim show up in the Prime Universe but there's always the next book.
6. Ensign Mariner being risk adverse and a talented Engineer is weird that she hasn't been promoted.
1. Lily Sloane's beliefs that they shouldn't explore their own reality but just the multiverse is actually something I find very disappointing as it is a pretty isolationist view of the galaxy.
2. Garak becoming a doctor is fine to me because it's an alternative to being a tailor. Bashir being a hologram makes perfect sense because he was almost the basis for the EMD 2.0.
3. Curzon Dax gets portrayed here as a very Klingon-esque warrior and I feel that's an appropriate because too many episodes lean on the fact that he was a womanizer when he was someone that could impress the Klingons with his battle prowess as well as had been involved in the diplomacy for multiple wars.
4. T'Pol marrying Trip is alternate universe but we could still assume that she's from something similar to the prime universe.
5. I was surprised Lt. Kim wasn't mirror Harry Kim and wish they'd had Captain Kim show up in the Prime Universe but there's always the next book.
6. Ensign Mariner being risk adverse and a talented Engineer is weird that she hasn't been promoted.
But if that one incident that avoids being stabbed in the heart shapes your world view and you keep repeating similar decisions through out your life & career.
Then you might end up where that JLP ends up, not willing to take calculated risks.
Upper Management might see you a certain way and that limits your growth potential in your StarFleet career.
StarFleet is all about "Calculated Risk Taking" to some degree with some amount of Gamblers Luck.
I always had an idea they could have done a two parter where Picard realizes being risk adverse allowed him to start a family and he'd have to choose between his career and children.
I'm just glad poor Harry finally got a promotion. Not that the jokes will stop, but still.
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StarFleet is a very wide & diverse organization.
One person can't do everything @ every single time.
Everybody can be a specialist in some way.
This version of Lily Sloan chose Multiverse Exploration.
Some chooses Time Exploration
Other chooses Space Exploration.
While others chooses in-depth social Exploration of a Species.
It's about what area of Exploration you want to do.
Some are in Scientific Knowledge, others are in Mathematics, some is in Engineering, others are in Weapons.
Exploration isn't limited to just one aspect of life, and most people can only focus on certain things at a portion of their life.
That's why StarFleet is a GIANT Team of Explorers all working together to Explore different things & to share the knowledge.
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Live thoughts as I watch:
Boimler's beard is complete!
WILLIAM BOIMLER IS BACK! Yessssssssss.
Wait, this is the comic book series Sons of Star Trek! Except that was Q I think.
Bashir and Garak are MARRIED
William Boimler is all the fans who hate multiverse stories
It's the Harry Kim's!!
"I'm Harry fucking Kim!"
"He'll know what to do."
"We're all gonna fucking die!"
Very, very fun episode.
Boimler's beard is complete!
WILLIAM BOIMLER IS BACK! Yessssssssss.
Wait, this is the comic book series Sons of Star Trek! Except that was Q I think.
Bashir and Garak are MARRIED
William Boimler is all the fans who hate multiverse stories
It's the Harry Kim's!!
"I'm Harry fucking Kim!"
"He'll know what to do."
"We're all gonna fucking die!"
Very, very fun episode.
Just watch this ep.
My gods the madlads did it.
My gods the madlads did it.
What a WONDERFUL episode, a love letter to Star Trek, and some of our favorite characters.
This episode deserves a 10 fold 10, because on top of all that is was a fresh and totally Star Treky take on the multiverse.
This episode deserves a 10 fold 10, because on top of all that is was a fresh and totally Star Treky take on the multiverse.
It's similar to what Q advised Picard was the true meaning of exploration in AGT; "Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence."
But Tapestry implied that because Picard avoided getting stabbed, he would go on to be mediocre, almost like the reason why he was captain in the first place was because of him being stabbed. I get the point of it being a point in time reveals a tapestry unfurled, but I wish the episode had included that point and they really didn't. It basically said that that moment was so important in Picard's life that he was always going to be that way and there was no room for change.
Q's point, I believe, was that Picard being the kind of guy who stood up to bullies and helped his friends is why he made a magnificent captain and it was better to live a short glorious life than a long mediocre one.
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Gonna admit that was far better than I thought and i had high expectations.
I love having Harry as the padding out of a ship's crew. I mean if you're going to pick up variants may as well grab Harry while you're there. Fine they're mostly ensigns (which i find hilarious is what drove Two Pip Kim mad) but given how ridiculously well rounded Harry is alongside the natural variances between universes? You've got a solid staff on your hands that can fluidly adapt to the needs of the situation.
I personally think they didn't all mob Two Pip because they were hoping for a peaceful solution. Pretty sure each of them went a bit... batty for a bit on the realization by and large they don't make it past ensign. Then they settle. Almost has that feel of 'OK he'll calm down when he realizes the stakes. We can hash this out and Boimler will let us handle things, like the last five times.'
I love having Harry as the padding out of a ship's crew. I mean if you're going to pick up variants may as well grab Harry while you're there. Fine they're mostly ensigns (which i find hilarious is what drove Two Pip Kim mad) but given how ridiculously well rounded Harry is alongside the natural variances between universes? You've got a solid staff on your hands that can fluidly adapt to the needs of the situation.
I personally think they didn't all mob Two Pip because they were hoping for a peaceful solution. Pretty sure each of them went a bit... batty for a bit on the realization by and large they don't make it past ensign. Then they settle. Almost has that feel of 'OK he'll calm down when he realizes the stakes. We can hash this out and Boimler will let us handle things, like the last five times.'
The stabbing part isn't what made Captain JLP the man he was, it's the risk he took in standing up for his SF Academy friends to the Nausicaans in the Bar and the risks he was willing to endure (including potential death)
The consequence was him getting stabbed, but he managed to survive it and he become "Bold" in his youth. That's what allowed a young JLP to take command of the StarGazer when it was attacked by unknown aliens (Later to be discovered that they were the Ferengi) and to create the Picard Manuever. A Manuever that gets cemented in StarFleet tactical history.
They did, listen to what Commander Riker was telling Liutenant Picard.
It's a mind set that gets ingrained into you based on a critical choice in a moment in a person's life.
That choice might be so critical, that it shapes their future outlook in life and what potential decisions they might make when facing similar crisis/dilema's in the future.
If you look at people, once they make a hard decision, it might open doors that were never possible to earlier versions of that person who was more "Risk Averse".
You know what would be hilarious, if our Harry Kim in our Prime Universe was a Commander at this point in time and he shows up some time down the road.
=D
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