Hmmm, would fraternities still exist on Earth?
ST Nemesis: Fresh Outta Transporters
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I doubt it. Those kind of entitled brats don't exist in TNG Utopia.
I say they would.I doubt it. Those kind of entitled brats don't exist in TNG Utopia.
Exhibit A. Cadets Nic Lacarno, Tom Paris and Nova Squad.
Exhibit B. Nog and those idiots from Red Squad.
Exhibit C. Captain Frat himself. James T. NuKirk from ST09 and STID.
Young adults with heads full of steam, ambitions and raging hormones. That’s something that would never change.
NuKirk may have been a bit of a dudebro, but I'm not sure we're given any evidence that he's part of a fraternity or otherwise organized group of such individuals.
Nova Squad seems too small to be a fraternity, though Red Squad seems a bit larger, and it's a bit galling that Starfleet Academy would have kept such things in place given Nova Squad's spectacular failure. It intrigues me that the Federation would ban genetic enginnering because "superior intellect breeds superior ambition", and yet would foster an environment where the cadets they felt were the best were given privileges and concentrated in a way that would surely feed their own egos.
Nova Squad seems too small to be a fraternity, though Red Squad seems a bit larger, and it's a bit galling that Starfleet Academy would have kept such things in place given Nova Squad's spectacular failure. It intrigues me that the Federation would ban genetic enginnering because "superior intellect breeds superior ambition", and yet would foster an environment where the cadets they felt were the best were given privileges and concentrated in a way that would surely feed their own egos.
But if they remembered the other transporters, we wouldn't have believed that an android could fly!
(Actual Superman jokes were made on either side of me in the theater.)
Superman jokes about androids flying through space are TIGHT!
I'm a lucky woman.
Tom hardy seems …well… svelte in this film. Did he bulk up for his comic book movies? And he must have shaved his head, that is no bald capNo comments about Picard being bald as a kid in this film when "Tapestry" clearly showed he had a glorious head of hair?
Maybe he went through a phase when he was younger...or was wearing a wig...
His behavior appears quite unique. He strikes me as a green officer I saw on JAG who got taken down a peg. His antics only went so far until he got people killed.
Yup, I knew there was a reason I liked it.
Agreed.I doubt it. Those kind of entitled brats don't exist in TNG Utopia.
I used "captain frat" as an impression for NuKirk's behavior in 09 and ID. Dudebro is applicable as well. I can just imagine NuKirk telling other cadets "Hey man, you messed with the wrong frat, bro!". Or him showing up in shorts and flipflops to a keg party.
NuKirk was demoted for his behavior for all of 5 minutes. JJ listening to the criticisms of Kirk going from cadet to captain in 09. Then he takes it all back and Kirk didn't learn anything.
This is a deleted scene that was cut from ID. I wish they kept it in the film. It truly showcases how immature and unfit NuKirk is for the big chair. The fact that Orci/Kurtzman/Lindelof wrote this, and JJ filmed it and then left it on the cutting room floor is hilarious.
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Bull shit.
This is based on my own experience as a college student at Arizona State University from 1984 to 1988. ASU's frat houses were eventually closed down (and demolished) due to all the rapes and sexual assaults.
This is a deleted scene from ST09. The Orion girl, Gaila, worked in the Star Fleet computer lab. Kirk was using her (in more ways than one) to get access to the Kobayoshi Maru simulation so he could alter the parameters of the test so he could pass. What's worse, is in the scene, Kirk apologizes to a different Orion. After mistaking her for Gaila. Captain Frat, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh noes...a young person making mistakes and learning from them. Let's all laugh and call them stereotypical names.
LOOK! Pine is wearing Kirk's true color of the command tunic from TOS!
Actually, they're super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
I thought tight was a good thing?
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