^^Then there's the Abrams movies which carry the implication that even being in temporary command while the captain is away entitles you to be called "Captain" which is just weird.
Shhh!
The MIB people are just outside your door.
Meh, it's never bothered me. There'd be loads of opportunities for starship Captains to get to know each other, they aren't on their respective ships 100% of the time and no doubt they attend conferences and stuff like that together.
What about Voyager's journey through the Delta Quadrant? In the rough line they traverse across an entire galactic quadrant, they encounter:
an unstable temporal micro-wormhole leading to a next-door neighbor of the Federation ("Eye of the Needle")
a colony of descendants of centuries-ago abducted members of a founding Federation species ("The 37's)
The Sky Spirits of Chakotay's ancestors ("Tattoo")
...
the centuries-lost Ares IV and the exact anomaly that took it ("One Small Step")
...
a traveling group of the Federation's next-door neighbors ("Prophecy")
the displaced Ferengi encountered by the Enterprise-D ("False Profits")
in all of the Borg's gigantic sphere of influence, assimilated nationals of local space nations ("Unity", "Scorpion", "Survival Instinct", "Unimatrix Zero, Part II")
...
the homeworlds of all 4 of their Borg children charges ("Tsunkatse", "Child's Play", "Imperfection") (though they couldn't deliver Mezoti home as they had already passed Norcadia Prime)
Species 8472's possibly sole training facility in the space-time continuum ("In the Flesh")
the one other surviving Caretaker abductee Starfleet vessel, who also jumped thousands of light years ("Equinox")
a centuries-lost lost Earth space probe ("Friendship One")
Some complained about the Admiral Archer reference in ST'09, but I love the idea that the young Kirk and Scotty knew the now-ancient former captain of the NX-01.
The commander of a ship is called "Captain" regardless of rank. I don't think it applies to a space station posting.
The reason only Dax was referred to as "Captain" while at lower rank was because that's the only episode where the writers paid enough attention to naval tradition to get it right. In other episodes, series, and movies, the producers either didn't know about the custom or thought it would be too confusing to the audience.
Voyager encountered a Borg sphere hijacked by Klingon General Korok towards the end of "Unimatrix Zero, Part II".I'll grant "Unity" and "Scorpion," but in the case of "Survival Instinct," those ex-drones had been searching for Seven, I believe. And in the case of "Unimatrix Zero," the drones in U0 were physically located all over Borg territory.
As for the Borg children, the proximity isn't so implausible. Since they were children (and Borg apparently accelerate children's maturation), they wouldn't have been abducted that long before, and thus it stands to reason that they'd be relatively close to the places they were abducted from.
What's more implausible is that their homeworlds actually survived rather than having been wiped out entirely by the Borg. We were given an excuse for that in the case of Icheb's homeworld, but not the others.
Alright, I concede that one.^Yes, and Borg vessels have transwarp drive which lets them move across huge distances very quickly. So that doesn't prove that Korok's sphere was near Voyager to begin with.
When Walker Keel (who is introduced as a friend of Picard's) arranges a secret meeting of 4 captains,* as far as I can tell the only two who know each other at all are Keel and Picard. Tryla Scott and Rixx are strangers to Picard. Maybe they know Walker.
*One of my absolute favorite scenes in any Trek anywhere. High-level captain counter-conspiracies--how cool is that?
What about Voyager encountering the colony New Talax? Lo and behold, Neelix meets some of his people on the route to the Federation! And not only did they find some way(s) of jumping the path of decades of regular warp travel that Voyager skipped ("The Gift", "Dark Frontier", "Timeless", etc.), but they survived all the spheres of influence of the Borg and all the hostile beings who could outgun and outrun them!
*One of my absolute favorite scenes in any Trek anywhere. High-level captain counter-conspiracies--how cool is that?
One of my favorites, too! I'm actually surprised things like this didn't happen more often; I always thought it would have been interesting had there been some sort of cabal of captains during the 23rd century--not a Good Ole' Boys Network, but a group of elite officers that banded together during a crisis.
Let's also not forget the Voth, from Distant Origin, who just happened to stumble on Hogan's remains (and who also happened to be evolved from dinosaurs on Earth)![]()
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