Or worse, playing with controls that cause damage to the ship.
(To be fair, adults were doing that, too. Like the bridge crew of the Tsiolkovsky. But at least it isn't kids being blown out into space.)
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(To be fair, adults were doing that, too. Like the bridge crew of the Tsiolkovsky. But at least it isn't kids being blown out into space.)
True, it'd be easier than ever to gain access when the adults are incapacitated.
What rank should she have had? Didn't she tell Tuvok she had gone to the academy and earned a commissionable degree?
In TUC Rand wore a Lieutenant JG insignia.
"It took me 3 years just to make ensign", she tells Tuvok when he is making tea for Sulu.
I actually don't find it odd that she was a Commander in "FLASHBACK". Time between TOS season 1 and TUC is about 27 years.
For comparison, Chekov made it from ensign to commander in about 14 years. (Time between the beginning of TOS season 2 to TWOK.)
Wildman was suppose to be back home after the mission and giving birth their and not on the ship. In fact I I think her husband was stationed on DS9 even though we never saw him.
Do you find it odd that she was a lieutenant in TUC?
From what I recall, she was never referred to as a Lt. in TUC. I vaguely recall there was some confusion among people about her insignia, but I never really looked into the specifics of her case on that.
(And there have been multiple rank errors in costume after Rand in the franchise, too. The entire first half of VOY season 1 had everyone except Janeway and Kim, by pips, be 1 step in rank higher than they were supposed to be. And let's not get started on the O'Brien TNG situation.)
So I can't find it odd she was a Lt. if she never was shown to be one there to begin with.
The thing about Rand was in all the previous movies, she was enlisted. Her rank was stated to be Chief Petty Officer in TMP and she was wearing an enlisted jumpsuit in TVH. Since she was clearly mustanged at some point between TVH and TUC, her rank being Lieutenant JG in TUC actually makes sense. Having her wearing Commander's rank insignia in Flashback is the mistake, as is that episode's implication she's the Excelsior's XO.
Except Star Trek III. She's a commander.
Oh, right. Well, that's what I get from skimming Memory Alpha while writing my post.
So Rand seems to be the TOS era of O'Brien regarding rank insignia. It happens. (Thankfully not often, season 1 VOY aside.)
That one and this one
drive me crazy on an irrational level.I'm not seeing an "eyeroll" reaction, so a laugh will have to do.But Starfleet isn't the military of course. Not like he is criticizing a fellow Solider or anything.
"Klingon Imperial Empire" was just a flub that the director didn't think was worth doing a retake, wasn't it?
One would have thought that, while rehearsing his lines and being classically trained with a higher-than-average competence in the English language, Patrick Stewart would have mentioned such a clunky redundancy to the director.
I get that Trek has always been inherently "Don't deviate from the script!" but things like that really should be addressed on the fly.
I get that Trek has always been inherently "Don't deviate from the script!" but things like that really should be addressed on the fly.
Here's one: a lot of inconsistencies in what characters say can be explained away as being the result of something real people do all the time; misremember, be misinformed, or lie. The fact that other characters don't call attention to the error is because it's not important to the larger point being made, whatever that may be. (Unless, of course, it's where the impostor gave themselves away; that is, says something untrue that the real so-and-so should know better about.)
Indeed, but Picard never held his gaze into the mirror long enough to see how hypocritical he was in his judgements and sterile, soulless nature which--to viewers least--made his version of 24th century humanity just as worthy of condemnation..
Oh, but the Prime Directive-preaching tea-drinker comes from a refined class of people who only wear uniforms to distinguish jobs, not due to the necessity such military positions demand on a weapons-covered Starship filled with personnel all trained for combat.
Agreed, and it was always entertaining to see Picard knocked off of that high horse from time to time.
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