Just because it's illegal doesn't stop it from happening. Just ask Carl. He likes being asked questions.
Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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My point about it being illegal in that time was to address someone proposing that they may do 'a reverse DISCO' and send some of them back to early 25th century, after PICARD.Just because it's illegal doesn't stop it from happening. Just ask Carl. He likes being asked questions.
It could happen through illegal means. It could happen through natural phenomena like a temporal disruption of some sort. An artifact like the Orb of Time, the Guardian or the portal encountered by the crews of the Enterprise and the Cerritos. My point was that the legality of the matter wasn't actually the point.
And if you note in my post (I quoted it above for you, in case you missed it since it was a couple pages ago) I already said I expect ACADEMY to be like DISCO and do it anyway.
SAM, emissary of the photonics, is 4 months old, and playing SAM feels like spiderman.
The captain, to distinguish herself from Kirk, Picard, Janeway, etc. walks around barefoot, and often curls up in her chair like a cat.
The EMH has a new ageing subroutine, and Picardo sees him as the Yoda of Trek.
The bad guy has a tic tac toe game in his haircut, Athena's wings unfurl at warp, and there are references to exocomps and the EMH's opera interest.
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The captain, to distinguish herself from Kirk, Picard, Janeway, etc. walks around barefoot, and often curls up in her chair like a cat.
The EMH has a new ageing subroutine, and Picardo sees him as the Yoda of Trek.
The bad guy has a tic tac toe game in his haircut, Athena's wings unfurl at warp, and there are references to exocomps and the EMH's opera interest.
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I think people know that that realistically humans will never have a paradise. Any attempt explain how it happens will not make sense to people. That is assuming it doesn't piss them off in other ways. I mean the idea that humans got paradise because they finally embrace socialism is for sure going to bother people. I think it's easier to leave the "how" to the imagination and just go straight to showcasing the benefits of it.
I do think though the Roddenberry Vision is also something that mostly only works for TNG. The feelings that TNG create are hard to duplicate so almost all future Trek shows will always feel lacking in some way when it comes to that kind of optimism. TNG is basically the Weird Al of Trek shows. You will never see another Trek show again that feels the hopelessly optimistic and unique.
I never felt optimism from TNG, with how much conflict they had or alluded to. The preaching also was not very welcoming.
There's a reason TOS appealed to me. It allowed a measure of flaws. Later TNG got a little bit better but the impression was not lost.
Yes, I prefer the journey towards the utopia, and being encouraged that humans can grow towards it rather than told we're to lucky to have it.
There's a reason TOS appealed to me. It allowed a measure of flaws. Later TNG got a little bit better but the impression was not lost.
Yes, I prefer the journey towards the utopia, and being encouraged that humans can grow towards it rather than told we're to lucky to have it.
Some people have read a history book.
Picard basically telling an entire planet of proto-Vulcan humanoids they're superstitious rubes and that he's not going to participate in their stupid worldview was probably his lowpoint in TNG from a "warm character you want to like and root for" perspective. Yes, the Mintakans were Bronze Age primitives but if real world explorers pulled the shit Picard did in that episode they'd be rightfully excoriated as colonialist pricks who can't resist playing the "I'm more evolved than you" card. I like that episode, but Picard does not come off looking good for most of it.
It isn’t. Kurtzman specifically talks about it in the interview, which I can tell you didn’t bother reading before complaining.
No, they claimed it was.
But you don't get to claim a thing is illegal while secretly using it yourself.
So, anyway, two weeks exactly as of today.
Oh, you poor sweet summer child...
I actually think Picard was 100% correct in "Who Watches The Watchers".
If Picard played the part of a god to them, that's just a disastrous situation of all kinds. Of course he was trying to stop them from looking to him as a god. Playing god has always ended up a disaster.
I'm not sure what you mean by him playing the 'more evolved card'. If you are talking about him comparing huts and bows, he was just illustrating that Picard and his crew simply have knowledge the Mintakans lacked, just as current Mintakans have knowledge their ancestors lacked. It was a way of showing they are stilk similar and that he is no better than they are. I don't see that as making them feel less evolved... I actually think the opposite. Seems to me it was more like, "You'll get there one day, too."
Frankly, it was Crusher who screwed everything up there by bringing the Mintakan aboard.
It was Admiral Vance who let them know about the illegality of time travel, and he was not using time travel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48572982 - there were other ideas I had but they edged toward being poor taste to do a "well you say that....but look over here"
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pegasus_(episode) - see also the Federation totally saying that developing cloaking tech is illegal and whaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt
Politics IS claiming something is illegal yet using it yourself.
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Orientation: Meet The Faculty
There are some familiar faces mixed in with the new ones.
trekmovie.com
The TNG ones with Worf also feature a number of characters from the New Frontier series.Time to start my Starfleet Academy rereads:
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