Bad Language in Discovery

There are people on this very board who had issues with the crew having a party. Apparently it was unprofessional or 'not starfleet' or something else equally anally retentive.

But . . . but Kirk mentions a Christmas party aboard the Enterprise as far back as "Dagger of the MInd." Where he got slightly "unprofessional" with Helen Noel . . . .

Hell, Picard got stabbed in a bar fight when he was Tilly's age.
 
But . . . but Kirk mentions a Christmas party aboard the Enterprise as far back as "Dagger of the MInd." Where he got slightly "unprofessional" with Helen Noel . . . .

Hell, Picard got stabbed in a bar fight when he was Tilly's age.

Indeed. Dax sure knew how to throw a party. I mean she got into a fist fight with her future Klingon Matriarch-in-law at her hen's party and was pretty hungover the next day. In fact the crew of DS9 were always hanging out and drinking.

People hating on a party is fans taking trek too seriously. Like that woman who insisted on wearing a Captain's uniform to jury duty.
 
The Party was self-indulgent when one of their own was being tortured, but that's how they roll on Discovery.
 
That explanation was a retcon, due to the fact that the modern audiences aren't familiar with the term "sawbones," so the reboot movie had to come up with a brand-new explanation for the "Bones" thing. But that certainly wasn't the intent back in the 1960s, when westerns were all over TV, and STAR TREK could expect viewers to understand why the ship's doctor was called "Bones."

The "divorce" explanation came along forty years after the fact, so that doesn't change the point that TOS was using an old slang term back when it first aired. (Heck, the original series never once mentioned that McCoy was divorced.)

So who knows? Maybe forty years from now, "fucking cool" will sound archaic and the reboot of DISCOVERY will have to invent some new explanation for why Tilly says it. :)

I always think of sawbones as more naval. Ships surgeon.
 
Disco has become it's own secret society in the 23rd century. The music is kept hidden from the masses, and this secret society runs the intelligence agencies.

There is a secret power in disco that only a select few, knowledgeable in the dark arts, are informed about.
 
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