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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

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Fair point. Provided you could come up with actual instances where I simply made an "insecure declaration" WITHOUT actually providing reasons why I disagreed with those opinions.

I'll wait...

:bolian:
Sometimes, it's not what one says...
It's the way one says it and how others view/interpret it.


Hey, we can have legitimate disagreements all day long, but I'm not going to be dishonest or disingenuous. Happy to admit when I'm wrong!
I discovered that much of my belly-aching today was the result of mishearing and/or misremembering the episode.

Damn, I knew I should have gone to the movies today instead.
Nah ... the movie probably would have sucked anyway.
:nyah:
 
Which it wasn't. And we are supposed to understand that when Picard has his epiphany in the first episode.

Picard acknowledges that his walking away was a stupid mistake of him giving in to self righteous offense and that he's wasted the last 15 years of his life because of it.

Picard was very clear in his conviction that Starfleet was behaving “downright criminal” by abandoning the Romulans to die after saying they would.

The only thing Picard regrets is speaking out about it publicly like he did
 
Sometimes, it's not what one says...
It's the way one says it and how others view/interpret it.

Hey, I'm sure I come across like a dick (some of the time) with snarky or curt comments. but the OP was accusing me of just making hit-and-run insults with no further content, which I do not do. (at least I hope I don't. Anymore.)
 
Much like Jean Luc Picard, my dad was the kind of guy who thought he was right all the time, and for the most part probably was, he was a seriously smart man. And he often got into serious problems with the organizations he worked for over them not accepting that he was right. One time he confessed that, given how the university he worked for was treating my terminally ill brother who was struggling mightily to earn his degree, he had thought out an act of truly horrific and destructive violence to commit on that university.

Now, my father otherwise was not a violent man at all, and the university's treatment of my brother was appalling. But men like this do not react well when their world fails them.
 
I hear you but you were suggesting such things don't happen even now.

Well, the current administration ignores every single rule of propriety, morality, proper procedure, decorum, legality that there are.

But, even still, Vindman wasn't stripped of his commission, he was just removed from a specific position. Which still is inexcusable, don't get me wrong.

And that's what I THOUGHT had happened to Raffi. But I was actually wrong about that, so my bad. And I've since clarified my misunderstanding.
 
Hey, I'm sure I come across like a dick (some of the time) with snarky or curt comments. but the OP was accusing me of just making hit-and-run insults with no further content, which I do not do. (at least I hope I don't. Anymore.)
Look, admitting that one might have been wrong about anything simply goes against the basic principles of the internet etiquette. So if one does that everyone must instantly viciously mock that person to make sure that such a thing never happens again...
 
Look, admitting that one might have been wrong about anything simply goes against the basic principles of the internet etiquette. So if one does that everyone must instantly viciously mock that person to make sure that such a thing never happens again...

I'll do my best!
 
Look, admitting that one might have been wrong about anything simply goes against the basic principles of the internet etiquette. So if one does that everyone must instantly viciously mock that person to make sure that such thing never happens again...

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Well, the current administration ignores every single rule of propriety, morality, proper procedure, decorum, legality that there are.

But, even still, Vindman wasn't stripped of his commission, he was just removed from a specific position. Which still is inexcusable, don't get me wrong.
Not just him, but also his brother.
 
Not just him, but also his brother.
Yeah... that's just about as vindictive as one can get without killing off the whole family. :wtf:
The sibling didn't even have anything to do with the investigation.

They also made a really big deal about escorting the two of them out with the Secret Service/Capital Police.
:rolleyes:


I just hope the Country survives all this mayhem.
If things go sour and HE wins again in Nov., the USA will never recover.
 
I like that. However, my one reservation with that character right now (albeit sight-unseen, admittedly), is that he exhibits quite a few tropes that are a little bit too elvish. The long straight
hair, the long flowing robe-like attire, the elaborate sword work (and of course the ears add too it) and, most importantly, his name sounds like something straight out of Tolkien! :lol:

Another theory that is buzzing online is that Elnor is a descendant of Lord Elrond from LOTR and that Elves, Vulcans, and Romulans are distant cousins :guffaw::guffaw::lol::lol:.
 
I strongly agree. They're both great characters and clearly quite talented. Those two could easily watch Picard's back for the duration of the mission, and it would be helpful to have some Romulans along, in general, to provide Picard with some cultural insight along the way, of why things are and how to work around them. A lost opportunity there...
Something tells me both of them will follow Picard in some cloaked Romulan ship they always had hidden in the chateau ;)
 
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