True you don't want to be too close to an exploding ship.
The timeship
- Thread starter Mr Pointy Ears
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Do you l get the emergency beam out. I might even go along with Sterling having the onboard computer helping him to work the shio out.
But the one thing l have never understood is hiw a very highly trained Starfleet officer like Braxton just came apart at the seams and lost his mind????????
But the one thing l have never understood is hiw a very highly trained Starfleet officer like Braxton just came apart at the seams and lost his mind????????
He couldn't hack being trapped on earth in a primitive culture, unable to get back and knowing that no one was looking for him (for some.. time-ish reason). He was a highly trained Starfleet officer and now he was nothing. And he couldn't become something on this planet because he was strictly following orders to stay out of the timeline and not mess anything up, he was forced to keep himself separate from friendships, relationships, jobs.. he had to live on the fringes. Eventually that did him in.
Ok that’s well thought out and very well written. I will concede that he had to stay out of both the timeline and out of the way of everyone because he was to not interfere with earth’s
development. But the only thing wrong with that is the time ship.
That had changed everything and his first protocol would have either get it back or destroy it no matter the cost. I fighter pilot of today if he or she ejects is wearing a survival pack equipment but we see nothing of said equipment.
development. But the only thing wrong with that is the time ship.
That had changed everything and his first protocol would have either get it back or destroy it no matter the cost. I fighter pilot of today if he or she ejects is wearing a survival pack equipment but we see nothing of said equipment.
Yes a hero would get the timeship back, stuff would blow up blah blah but he would get it back.
Braxton was not a hero, he was a bureaucrat shuffling the papers of time.
Braxton was not a hero, he was a bureaucrat shuffling the papers of time.
A bureauceat with a death ray, shuffling the papers of Voyager's destruction!
Where are you getting the "highly trained" part of this from? He was from the 29th century and we have very, VERY little in canon regarding what it is like then. Maybe most of the Federation lives in virtual environments and is completely unmotivated to explore "the real universe", and Starfleet is so desperate for warm bodies that anyone who will sign up and do 6 weeks of training gets a ship that can travel anywhere in all of space and time. Even if they're the sort of mentally unstable and anti-social individuals who don't want to live with the rest of civilization in the worldframes. (World in a mainframe. Like it? I just made it up.)But the one thing l have never understood is hiw a very highly trained Starfleet officer like Braxton just came apart at the seams and lost his mind????????
That's why Starling was able to use the ship, too. It asked him if he wanted to volunteer, he said yes, and it gave him the 6 weeks of training (which he got through with in a few hours because he's a human from a time when humans go to school to study and learn rather than being used to having knowledge put straight into their virtual brains programmatically) and made him captain.
From what little we've seen of 29th-century life, it seems very much like what we're used to seeing. There is still a Starfleet, dedicated to exploration and defense, which operates starships crewed by capable officers and crew.
I see no reason to doubt Braxton's qualifications as a Starfleet officer just because he comes from so far in the future. The only reason he ended up the way he did, as a sad, paranoid homeless man, was because he was trapped for 30+ years in a hostile and primitive culture - who knows what that could do to any of us, let alone a trained and capable officer? That kind of stress could break anybody.
As for how Starling was able to exploit the Aeon's technology: Again, we don't know. It could be that the Aeon was equipped with some kind of avatar that made it easy to cannibalize it for parts. Then again, maybe Starling was just a smart guy who knew how to get what he wanted?
I see no reason to doubt Braxton's qualifications as a Starfleet officer just because he comes from so far in the future. The only reason he ended up the way he did, as a sad, paranoid homeless man, was because he was trapped for 30+ years in a hostile and primitive culture - who knows what that could do to any of us, let alone a trained and capable officer? That kind of stress could break anybody.
As for how Starling was able to exploit the Aeon's technology: Again, we don't know. It could be that the Aeon was equipped with some kind of avatar that made it easy to cannibalize it for parts. Then again, maybe Starling was just a smart guy who knew how to get what he wanted?
