Did I say it would?
Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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Oh..
Not to nitpick but why is a HOLOGRAM being trained in the physical realm to be a war fighter?
Can she just be AI prompted to become a soldier if they need her to be?
Can she just be AI prompted to become a soldier if they need her to be?
They'll explain later.
Holograms are presumably being treated as "sentient lifeforms" in this one, so they offer her the same training as anyone else.
She did have a line in the first episode about how she was programmed to embody the role of a young cadet or something, so the intent of including her in the Academy is probably to let her experience everything that a normal cadet would, so she and her people can learn about how it works.
Having said that, she could just become indestructible and change her form into a giant hammer to smash shit up if she was ever in an actual fight, but that ship sailed decades ago when DS9 sucked all the imagination out of futuristic warfare and decided that it consists of people lying in bomb craters, getting into bladed combat, and writhing in triage tents having "phasered" themselves in the foot to get "pulled off the line". A depiction of warfare that people in 1920 would have thought was weirdly antiquated.
She did have a line in the first episode about how she was programmed to embody the role of a young cadet or something, so the intent of including her in the Academy is probably to let her experience everything that a normal cadet would, so she and her people can learn about how it works.
Having said that, she could just become indestructible and change her form into a giant hammer to smash shit up if she was ever in an actual fight, but that ship sailed decades ago when DS9 sucked all the imagination out of futuristic warfare and decided that it consists of people lying in bomb craters, getting into bladed combat, and writhing in triage tents having "phasered" themselves in the foot to get "pulled off the line". A depiction of warfare that people in 1920 would have thought was weirdly antiquated.
@StarTrek1701 , multi quote is your friend.
How does that work??
To be honest I am not sure where the concept of Starfleet Marines started but I was under the impression those Starfleet officers in the black outfits that we saw in "Nor the Battle to the Strong" were suppose to be some of those Starfleet Marines.
Wishful thinking. I think Mister Laser Beam was one the wishers
I feel like the MACOs would come from either school and I find myself trying to categorize the War College visa vis Starfleet Academy like the US Coast Guard Academy vs the US Naval Academy. Similar yet very different and it jibes with the Defense vs Exploration vibe. Both groups do both, but they have different primary functions. I think that is a close enough comparison.
Or you think of the War College like a military college such as VMI, the Citadel, etc.
Or you think of the War College like a military college such as VMI, the Citadel, etc.
If it follows TRW, the War College is about tactics, strategy and command
Jem'Hadar live short lives not because of biology but due to the nature of their lives: being soldiers. Few reach "Honored Elder" status, which is 20 years old. (Like the Second in "ONE LITTLE SHIP"... that mission was going to be his last before he became an Honored Elder. It ended up being just his last mission.)
)No, it was specifically said the War College trained Starfleet officers after the Burn.
She's not a hologram, she's a photonic lifeform like the Sphere's and Cubes.
Yes, but in TRW, isn't the War College an advanced school for active service members, not cadets?
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It is in real life, but this isn't real life. So who knows?
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