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New Short Trek: The Trouble With Edward

How Would You Rate The Trouble With Edward?

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Forgive me if this has been posted and discussed already but looking through the 30 pages I cant see a link to the following video or discussion of the sort.

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The video maker seems to be pointing out that the culture of the world in this show is very different to that of the world in Star Trek The Next Generation.

I would tend to agree somewhat. This is my biggest problem with Discovery, I would think. A lot of people I speak to seem to assume it would be the look of the show. But the issue I had from the start was the portrayal of Federation culture that seemed to not gel with Pre-Federation or Federation Culture shown in Enterprise, Star Trek (1967), Star Trek (1973), or Star Trek The Next Generation.

Does anyone feel somewhat similarly, if not as vehemently as the video creator?

Certainly In the TNG era no crew member should be treated like that by their captain? Let's take a look at how Picard treats a certain Acting Ensign Crusher.

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Uh, I think the mass shootings that go on in the US proves this is false. Or suicide bombers in the Middle East.
There are also studies that some individuals have a decreased sense of self-preservation, and those people are more likely to engage in dangerous, or risky behaviors, due to either lack of perceived risk, or grandiose believes around self.
 
Ninety-nine percent of the time Crazy people really DON'T want to die.

It is almost always the severely depressed and/or educationally ignorant folks that plan out methodical ways to do harm to themselves and others.

Edward wasn't crazy anyway.
He was an Egomaniac that let his complete refusal to accept he was wrong about anything, cause the events that killed him.
I would imagine that as he was drowning under the weight of the Tribbles he was still mumbling that it wasn't his fault.
 
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That was half-joking but since we went all serious and such...

Humans are not always great at perception.

Yeah I was really nitpicking that is true

I liked seeing a new ship. I enjoyed that maybe even the most, and the after credits scene
 
So we merely have a "not fast enough" situation here with Edward? I mean, no other tribble population has filled up space quite that fast.

Timo Saloniemi

This is what I am thinking. They were breeding too slowly for Edward's taste. If the tribbles in TOS and DS9 had breed that fast, they would have overtaken the various ships & space stations in a matter of hours. Which they didn't.

After all, Edward was batsh*t crazy, and he wanted to use the Tribbles for food stuff. His idea of "too slowly" is probably not the same as a sane person's idea of too slowly.

Also, those "new" uniforms are just the same uniforms that the Discovery crew wears under their Away Team armor.
 
There are also studies that some individuals have a decreased sense of self-preservation, and those people are more likely to engage in dangerous, or risky behaviors, due to either lack of perceived risk, or grandiose believes around self.

and/or YOLO adherents.
 
That was the funniest thing I've watched in a long time. Two things stood out as awesome: (1) the simplistic, reductionist end line: "He was an idiot!"; and (2) the Tribbles cereal commercial. I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
 
The full episode is up on youtube as of today.

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Oddly, I feel like Ed embodied the kind of poster I had to deal with sometimes as a mod.

Maybe it was unfair to utterly destroy his career (no kidding) but he could have requested a transfer instead. Complaining about your boss behind your back isn't going to benefit things.

Let alone doing illegal genetic alterations to animal life.
 
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