But in areas where Vulcans expect to cohabitate with weakling inferior species, on Vulcan, it's easy to put down gravity netting or gravity plating to accommodate their guests.
Lack of Alien Diversity on the U.S.S. Equinox
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But in areas where Vulcans expect to cohabitate with weakling inferior species, on Vulcan, it's easy to put down gravity netting or gravity plating to accommodate their guests.
Yes. It would be hard for a human to survive in a 1.4g environment 24-7, and they would probably have adapted by looking like a human tank. Still, Burnham undoubtedly spent hours or even days in high-g environments, which would have given her strength beyond the human norm.
I agree.
However they could have compensated for the excessive gravity with a special belt, or maybe a piece of tech as small as a pendant, although Melora on Deep Space Nine was just put in a wheel chair, but her eventual fix, might have been highly illegal genetic modification, and Julian got away with it...
I got lyrics to the song "I did it all for the pu$$y" floating in my head right now.
Also...
Vulcan's are not Native to Vulcan.
TOS Return to Tomorrow said so.
So they may have acclimatized to 1.4, or the the world they modified on was 1.4, or they genetically evolved themselves to adapt to 1.4, or 1.4 has always been uncomfortably Wrong and they just put up with it.
What's the Gravity on Romulus?
The Story Shinzon told about getting prison raped, might not just been because the Reeman women were very very strong, and there was very little light on Reemus, but he was a child, or older being forced to put up with 1.4 or greater?
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It's political to have a diverse crew, so the more your crew is seen by outsiders who will Judge the Federation as maybe a humans only club, the more diverse the crew has to be, not to seem like space hypocrites as they build a space brotherhood.
As a science vessel, Equinox was sciencing, not meeting aliens or fighting wars, so there was no need to pretend that everyone in the Federation is equal, and create a rainbow crew representing all the member worlds, so thanbkfully a human crew doesn't have to put up with weird alien behaviour.
Besides?
Are we sure that the XO, who transmogrifies into a pillar of black smoke, now and then, is completely human?
Although...
(Simple) AI would monitor for a racist crew selection?
When ransom was filling out the forms to make his crew, the computer probably spat back at him, too many humans, pick something else, like how when you try and invent a new password for you email. and the computer laughs at you "Please use at lease one capitalized letter, one numeral and one non-alpha numeric character."
Those %100 Vulcan ship seemed racist, but they were not racist, they just don't want to have to take constant painful injections to hide the fact that all non Vulcans smell like garbage, which seems fair?
As a science vessel, Equinox was sciencing, not meeting aliens or fighting wars, so there was no need to pretend that everyone in the Federation is equal, and create a rainbow crew representing all the member worlds, so thanbkfully a human crew doesn't have to put up with weird alien behaviour.
Besides?
Are we sure that the XO, who transmogrifies into a pillar of black smoke, now and then, is completely human?
Although...
(Simple) AI would monitor for a racist crew selection?
When ransom was filling out the forms to make his crew, the computer probably spat back at him, too many humans, pick something else, like how when you try and invent a new password for you email. and the computer laughs at you "Please use at lease one capitalized letter, one numeral and one non-alpha numeric character."
Those %100 Vulcan ship seemed racist, but they were not racist, they just don't want to have to take constant painful injections to hide the fact that all non Vulcans smell like garbage, which seems fair?
I always got the impression that, despite the Federation being "integrated" through Starfleet, most ships tended to have a primary species. Sure Starfleet Academy on Earth might mostly be Humans....but what about on Vulcan? the T'Kumbra is a good example of this.
In the end common physiology, language (universal translators go down), etc. probably make this inevitable. I wouldn't want to need an organ transplant or medical services in need of my own species, on a fully diversified crew of only 80. I would assume the species who do put in for assignments to be a minority of 1 on a ship are just more adventurous.
In the end common physiology, language (universal translators go down), etc. probably make this inevitable. I wouldn't want to need an organ transplant or medical services in need of my own species, on a fully diversified crew of only 80. I would assume the species who do put in for assignments to be a minority of 1 on a ship are just more adventurous.
Not even AI, basic pattern-matching and heuristic algorithms based on an existing database are adequate to complement a crew, depending on how extensive the hierarchal parameters are and for anything plausible, that's gonna be a real big database... Even then, two seemingly compatible types may be the worst combination ever and two that you think would be bad end up being perfectly harmonious. But based on the "AI" in "Booby Trap" where it had a 9.37% margin of error in attempting to simulate Leah's personality (not including the classified fun stuff that Geordi can't know, so the computer won't include that - which apparently includes marital status in the 24th century) and how the real Leah shows up next season and says "foul" instead of that many-faceted soap-in-mouth-inducing word that can mean "ruined", "copulate", or be synonymous with "that's fantastic!" (or all three rolled into one, depending on the scenario therein) and Geordi was surprised that real-Leah wasn't anything like the facsimile that the ship (which didn't double as a dating service either) created.
But even today, the computer showed me two weather-related articles for my area: One says "Warmer than average", the other says "colder than average". One of their heuristic systems had a half-empty database to work from. Or if they're people then I might say "Nobody's perfect".
I see this and take it as a challenge to try to figure out how many non-human crew Voyager had... Neelix, Kes, Tuvok, B'Elanna (half), The Doctor (kind of), Seven Of Nine (kind of), Suder, Vorik, Tal Celes, Chell, Golwat, Gerron, Tabor, Jurot, maybe Naomi & Icheb count, Stadi (technically, for a second)...
God, that really is nothing. There must be more!
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