I'd assume Starfleet officers get a stipend in whatever local currency they may be likely to encounter. Ben may give Jake a few Bajoran coins or a latinum strip for some jumja sticks, but not enough to buy 400 year old merchandise at auction.
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I'd assume Starfleet officers get a stipend in whatever local currency they may be likely to encounter. Ben may give Jake a few Bajoran coins or a latinum strip for some jumja sticks, but not enough to buy 400 year old merchandise at auction.
Doesn't sound particularly unlikely, really. The officer might fill a requisition form for a pile of baubles X meters high to impress the locals with, to facilitate completion of his assigned tasks, and Starfleet generally would have no reason to turn it down, because baubles cost exactly nothing and officers usually are smart enough not to order a pile so high that it would bury the local economy.
Jake being underage and a civilian means he will be turned down, though. And dad can't be approached on this particular issue.
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Jake being underage and a civilian means he will be turned down, though. And dad can't be approached on this particular issue.
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Or as 'The Measure of A Man' extended edition would have it, a mere 6 years old when he started, 10 when he graduated. Either way- what the heck was he up to and, if he wasn't a citizen, who sponsored him? Was Maddox an outlier in not welcoming Data as a person?
And, speaking of the extended edition- how often is the Academy putting NFN NMI (No First Name No Middle Initial) on diplomas? Does Worf's diploma say Worf NMI Son of Mogh/Rozhenko? Peanut NMI Hamper? They're working with a lot of diverse cultures and the three name convention doesn't seem all that common even in the Federation.
Yes I can picture that.
Sisko (to StarFleet's accountant or whatever): I need a zillion federation credits to buy me a huge property on Bajor.
SFAOW: what do you need that for.
Sisko: I want to make me some wine!!
SFAOW: I don't know there's no precedent.
Sisko: How about Picard? He has a huge property and makes his own wine?
SFAOW: True but he inherited from his barbecued brother and his wife that conveniently disappeared.
Sisko: Listen, don't make me some over and btchslap you!!!
SFAOW: All Right, all right. Here's your zillion Bajorarn rubles. No need to be that way!!
Sisko has a lot of negotiation leverage on Bajor. “Oh well it’d be a shame if the neighbors found out why the Emissary won’t be moving in. Or if the prophets found out about your business practices...”
It’s possible someone let him into the academy just cause they thought it’d be a cool novelty.
It’s possible someone let him into the academy just cause they thought it’d be a cool novelty.
Yes, Sisko knows a lot about the rules of acquisition, maybe he's put them into practice.
Europe Proposes Strict Rules for Artificial Intelligence
Finally we will be able to read these infamous "Act of Cumberland"
Finally we will be able to read these infamous "Act of Cumberland"
Europe Proposes Strict Rules for Artificial Intelligence
Finally we will be able to read these infamous "Act of Cumberland"
I haven't read them all but I doubt these rules contain anything about sentient AI.
Well, we don't know if Act of Cumberland contained anything about sentient AI. I mean, we don't even know if the JAG believed that Data was sentient (she even called him a "toaster"). The only thing we are sure that she said that the real question was if he has "a soul".
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We already give rank and medals to animals:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the...ilitary-history-2018-11?r=US&IR=T#nils-olav-1
Can a King Penguin choose to leave the service or reject a veterinary procedure?
Is Data a King Penguin? Or is he considered "human"? Or the right colour of human, if we go back a few decades and look at the rights of some folk in military service?
Please, it's just honorary. A penguin can't give orders. Data can.
Honorary or not, it undercuts Swedish Borg's point.
And Maddox's point might well be that Data's rank and medals are honorary. After all, can you really give a medal for courage to someone incapable of feeling fear?
Yes, of course.
Medals are for accomplishments, not whether you are able to feel fear. Data was able to give orders, when was the last time you took orders from a pigeon?
"Soldier, you saved a ship full of innocent orphans, captured evil war criminals and prevented World War III! I can't imagine how scared you felt!"
"No, not really. I was, you know, pretty cool, sir"
"Is that so? Sorry, no medals for you. We give them only to people frightened to death , you know."
That he OUTranks others in the command structure = not honorary, rather fully legitimate.
He couldn't function as a member of a crew if it was honorary. Maddox is an ass.
Actually, if you'll indulge me in some semantics, Louvois is the ass, as in a jackass or dumbass. Maddox is a jerk, jerking people around, & Nakamura is either tool, or a shill, depending on how involved you suspect he was in this gambit
I mean just imagine, Data asks something of an underling... and they would respond "Sorry honorary commander but I am busy!!" "You're not the boss of me!!"
Not that Hobson didn't try that stunt. You see how far that got him lolI mean just imagine, Data asks something of an underling... and they would respond "Sorry honorary commander but I am busy!!" "You're not the boss of me!!"
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