Swearing in Star Trek - Steve Shives
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Pretentious college radio rock.
I love the idea that Picard is completely innocent in all of his interactions with Starfleet. He walks away after not getting his way, goes and does an interview shaming Starfleet, then goes in and demands to be reinstated to pursue a perceived conspiracy theory that ended up being true. Sorry, Picard doesn't get a blank check just because of past efforts. Recent behaviors count for something as well.
Sorry, my bad. "You are the great Picard. Of course you can have whatever you want, as well as my job."Picard was presumptuous.
IMO, someone who saved one billion people from certain death can have whatever they want FOR LIFE as long as what they want is not a crime of course but short of that ANYTHING and FOREVER.
How can saving one billion lives just be swept under the rug by some shitty paper-pushing Admiral is beyond me. No wonder Starfleet is filled with moles Romulan and otherwise... It's ruled by a bunch of idiotic ingrates. They spend more time aggravating their heroes than they do enforcing any kind of security protocol.
Even Kirk didn't get that treatment.
Kirk saved Earth no fewer than three separate times between 2267 and 2286. That we know of. Nomad, V'Ger and the Whale Probe. The worst that happened to him was he was busted from Admiral back down to Captain.
That's a shame.
And even that was basically a reward, not a punishment. Even the Federation President knew it. He might as well have said ‘wink wink nudge nudge’ as he was carrying out the sentence.
NTSA!
I can remember 2 F words, an S word, couple assorted dams, dammits and dumb asses. Over 800 episodes and 13 films, no big deal.
I can remember 2 F words, an S word, couple assorted dams, dammits and dumb asses. Over 800 episodes and 13 films, no big deal.
Prepare to hear the exact same amount of those words in one ten-episode season of Picard.
He asked to have the Enterprise to help out Spock and was denied use of the Enterprise despite recently stopping V'Ger and stopping Khan.
Admiral Morrow. Sheesh.
A decision which he promptly disregarded. Kirk didn't have time for no regulations.
A decision which he promptly disregarded. Kirk didn't have time for no regulations.
Morrow stated that the Enterprise was 20 years old. That was sheer fucking hubris on his part.
The difference, of course, is STPicard is our first real entry into Star Trek Land outside of the Utopic ideal of the Federation and Starfleet. We're dealing with the nitty gritty of the universe and the language tells us that.
Yup.
Some Admiral and C-in-C. Dude didn't even know how old the fleet's most famous ship was.
Who fucking cares if there's swearing in Star Trek? People swear even in the utopia of the 24th century.
Star Trek is not supposed to have swearing because it is a utopia.
If my civilization had survived a nuclear war I'd spend the next 300 years saying naughty words to celebrate.
At 301 years you need to knock that shit off.
That's when you switch to vulgar miming.
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