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Don’t distress calls seems a bit risky?

If only there was a sci fi series that was totally based off the actions of someone responding to a distress call when he shouldn't have, then making his own distress call.. nah..

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Don't you dare come after the Working Girl.
I love the director. Pairing Han Solo with Ripley was genius, and Joan Cusack as always was fetching. But talk about an unwarranted Best Picture nomination. So, I can only say....consider this my personal call of distress. Had MG possessed the acting chops of her co-stars, she likely would have been offered Capt. Janeway's role by now. Nude vaccuum cleaning didn't quite cut it for me in 1988.
 
Isn’t this essentially a rape joke? :confused:
Hell, no. It's a BY ANY OTHER NAME reference. That one began with a distress call, then a rare case of security guard survival while the yeoman didn't. This isn't GAMESTERS, ENEMY WITHIN or A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR. There's no such thing as reading too much. But some read too much into it.
 
But some read too much into it.
Possibly. Thanks anyway for the clarification. Me being not sure what you wanted to say was the reason why I asked. And to be honest, I’ve seen you do lewd and/or sexist jokes and comments before, so it’s not like this would somehow be totally out of the ordinary for you.
 
Possibly. Thanks anyway for the clarification. Me being not sure what you wanted to say was the reason why I asked. And to be honest, I’ve seen you do lewd and/or sexist jokes and comments before, so it’s not like this would somehow be totally out of the ordinary for you.
Such as?
 
Knowing the Federation it's probably still "humanitarian."

*Scowls in Azetbur*;)
The words Klingon, Ferengi, Tellarite, etc. all translate directly into English as "Human". That's the word for "native to this world" among interstellar species.
 
You could send out an encrypted wide range message that only friendly ships could decode.

Maybe you have to wait 4 days rather than 2, but that’s better than the wrong person turning up.
Maybe, unless Garak is breaking codes for the other side now...
 
Out of the all moments in the Star Trek universe we have been privileged to witness, how many times have distress calls been traps?
 
There was this line from Voyager ->

CHELL: I must point out sir that the Ferengi have been known to deceive other ships by pretending to be damaged. We could be falling into a trap.

Damned if I can remember this ever actually happening. Too bad we didn't see many space pirate Ferengi.
 
You could send out an encrypted wide range message that only friendly ships could decode.

Maybe you have to wait 4 days rather than 2, but that’s better than the wrong person turning up.
And if no one can survive past two days? I guess we'll have to debate that in conference. :lol:
 
And in "Suddenly Human", it was established that this exact tactic was used to kill a lot Starfleet officers in the Talarian war.

In "The Defector", when Jarok was under fire from the Romulan warship, it was a ploy by the Romulan leadership to root him out as a traitor and trap the Enterprise. (It was a long con, but it still started as a distress signal.)

"DAY OF THE DOVE"... while the colony didn't exist, it was a distress call that brought Kirk there.
 
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