...And all of
these not already mentioned? Those on that page and those in the links therefrom.
One thing about "my" Starfleeters...I like to think of them...almost as secular Jedi. They're more than good at their jobs...they're good people. Part of it is that they have to be, as representatives of us all to the great unknown, but I like to think that they're also warriors of Civilization, like the Jesuit monks during the Dark Ages, preserving old and creating new knowledge during deteriorated times.
It's part of what makes when they have a crazy admiral of the week so weird for me...the way I see it, it's the ensigns that are more likely to be imbalanced rather than one who's risen through merit to such lofty heights. An
admiral has more than learned a code of conduct they may or not totally buy into, or, later, out-maneuvered a Klingon destroyer during a border skirmish. To merit
that rank, by
that time, he's outwitted an M-5 supercomputer, diplomatically opened the Tholian empire, or saved the sector from Metron meddling or something.
...But then I guess it's what kind of admiral you are. If you have to make one the head of Starfleet Medical and one of Starfleet Tactical, where you gonna put the one that spearheaded the cure for Terrelian plague and the one that came up with "evasive pattern Delta"?
Still, if Q visited either on some cold December night to see if we've deteriorated back into a "savage child-race," I'd like to know they'd do more than try to remember what the Section 31 file said on how to handle the situation.
Am I being...I dunno, "unsophisticated" about this?
