Life Lessons You Can Learn From 'Star Trek'

[Wingsley]

"Seven Life Lessons You Can Learn From 'Star Trek'"

by David Borgenicht, on the Huffington Post

Cute column, but makes for interesting light reading

 

[Ssosmcin]

My one life lesson I got from Star Trek: if in a fight, don't do a "Space Seed" running-to-flying kick from across the room and expect your opponent to stand there and wait for you. He will step aside, watch you fall to the ground, then sit on your chest and beat the shit out of you. Just sayin'.

4th grade is a painful memory.

 

[WRStone]

In a decades-long career as an IT systems engineer, I've picked up one vital idea from Star Trek:

Never tell them how long it will really take.

Always put wiggle room into your ETAs. The problem may turn out to be harder to solve than you thought, and if you build in wiggle room, you don't have Management breathing down your neck when your ETA passes.

Secondly, if you happen to be right, it makes you look like a miracle worker if you get things finished well before your ETA.

In the industry, we call this, "Setting Management's expectations correctly."

Dakota Smith

 

[T'Girl]

After punching your (drill thrall) girlfriend in the face and she loses consciousness, alway say "I'm sorry."

Women like it when men say "I'm sorry."

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[Captain Tracy]

In a decades-long career as an IT systems engineer, I've picked up one vital idea from Star Trek:

Never tell them how long it will really take.

Always put wiggle room into your ETAs. The problem may turn out to be harder to solve than you thought, and if you build in wiggle room, you don't have Management breathing down your neck when your ETA passes.

Secondly, if you happen to be right, it makes you look like a miracle worker if you get things finished well before your ETA.

In the industry, we call this, "Setting Management's expectations correctly."

Dakota Smith

 

[Timewalker]

Kirk: The word is "No." I am therefore going anyway.


What this means to me is that when the people in charge make a stupid decision not to allow you to do something logical and beneficial to everyone, do it anyway. If it doesn't work, you'll have had a learning experience. If it does work, you can say, "I told you so" and they'll have had a learning experience.

 

[Kamdan]

The biggest life lesson I learned from Star Trek was, "All right. [War is] instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands... But we can stop it! We can admit that we're... killers. But we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill... today"

 

[T'Bonz]

Lesson for me:

Like what you want (Star Trek) and don't give a damn what others think.

If they come around, you were ahead of the curve. If not, eff 'em.

Be your own person, not a sheeple.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Gods and AIs are push overs.

 

[Warped9]

Lesson for me:

Like what you want (Star Trek) and don't give a damn what others think.

If they come around, you were ahead of the curve. If not, eff 'em.

Be your own person, not a sheeple.

 

[Bones_McCoy21]

My life lesson is When you meet a full blown Star Wars fan NEVER try the "Space Seed" jump or get in a debate(experience)

 

[Alienesse]

One important thing I learned from the creators of Star Trek is that brilliant innovations come from the need to overcome adversity - the transporter was invented because they didn't have enough of a budget to land the ship every week.

Another is that faith in one's own ideas and creativity can go a long way. They used jelly beans to emulate console buttons and people with strings behind what we saw to be automatic doors, they didn't have much of a budget, they didn't even have favorable ratings. And yet, Star Trek turned into a phenomenon that we still talk about 45 years later. Not to mention the influence it had on the culture and technology of these 45 years.

 

[7thsealord]

Lesson for me:

Like what you want (Star Trek) and don't give a damn what others think.

If they come around, you were ahead of the curve. If not, eff 'em.

Be your own person, not a sheeple.

Word.

 

[Wingsley]

One important thing I learned from the creators of Star Trek is that brilliant innovations come from the need to overcome adversity - the transporter was invented because they didn't have enough of a budget to land the ship every week.

Another is that faith in one's own ideas and creativity can go a long way. They used jelly beans to emulate console buttons and people with strings behind what we saw to be automatic doors, they didn't have much of a budget, they didn't even have favorable ratings. And yet, Star Trek turned into a phenomenon that we still talk about 45 years later. Not to mention the influence it had on the culture and technology of these 45 years.

This.

Maybe not a "life lesson", but still an important part of TOS legacy.

 

[SchwEnt]

"There are a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't have."

 

[SchwEnt]

Also...
First heard when I was a little kid, years before I knew any better:

"You'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories."

Decades later, turned out to be quite true.

 

[AtoZ]

How to construct a makeshift cannon as the sand quickly vanishes from the hourglass.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Another good 'un that really makes a point: "having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting."

Just, you know, never say that to your partner after sex.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Bump. Because I closed my own duplicate thread.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

After punching your (drill thrall) girlfriend in the face and she loses consciousness, alway say "I'm sorry."

Women like it when men say "I'm sorry."

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Right on!