The entire team was killed off in a one-panel “fight” to demonstrate how dangerous a new villain was.I don't quite get that reference. What did Marvel Comics do to Alpha Flight?
The entire team was killed off in a one-panel “fight” to demonstrate how dangerous a new villain was.I don't quite get that reference. What did Marvel Comics do to Alpha Flight?
Spock felt underutilized in book 3 where I'd been sure they were setting up a confrontation with Riker given all the references to Ambassadors have the equivalent of Vice-Admiral rank and Riker as only a Rear Admiral.
"But Starfleet isn't a military/is more than a military/is other than a military/is Schroedinger's military."I mean, I'm pretty sure the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation does not have the legal authority to issue orders to the commanding officer of the USS Gerald R. Ford, nor does the British Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran have the authority to issue orders to the commanding officer of the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
"But Starfleet isn't a military/is more than a military/is other than a military/is Schroedinger's military."
[Insert ramblings about Star Trek is in the Future and things are different because Future.]I understand you're being facetious, but the pedant in me insists that I point out that U.S. ambassadors didn't have the authority to issue orders to the commanders of NASA space shuttles, either.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation does not have the legal authority to issue orders to the commanding officer of the USS Gerald R. Ford, nor does the British Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran have the authority to issue orders to the commanding officer of the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
I literally just watched a TOS episode where an Ambassador gives Kirk direct orders, and overrules him on his own bridge
Yep, Fox was an ass, although I love the bit when Scotty tells him "No sir, I will not" which parallels his past in the Royal Canadian Artillery"A Taste of Armageddon"?
I'm not a fan of the Geordi and Leah Brahms relationship.
Me neither. Whether it be Geordi's creepy stalking in "Booby Trap", or them actually being married in "All Good Things".
Indeed, the latter is almost as bad as the former. As we all know, Dr. Brahms was already married when she first met Geordi. So he's not just a stalker, he's also a homewrecker?
(then again, AGT was a false future generated by Q, so nothing in it can really be taken at face value.)
@ThetaSigma I agree wholeheartedly that Fox was an asshat of the highest order, but what really gets me is that one of the El Aurian ships from Generations was named after him. So he must have been doing something right!
The situation is not quite as cut and dry as "Ambassador outranks Captain." In the episode you speak of, the Enterprise was on a diplomatic mission, and Fox was the ranking diplomat. Meaning Fox could issue mission related directives to Kirk, but could not assume authority over Kirk, the Enterprise and the crew otherwise. He shouldn't have been allowed to overrule Kirk on the bridge, even Admirals have to respect a ship Captain's command on the bridge of their ship, but TOS always did portray its ambassadors, commissioners and other civilian authority figures is douchebags of the highest order.I literally just watched a TOS episode where an Ambassador gives Kirk direct orders, and overrules him on his own bridge
The episode never really implies that.AGT was a false future generated by Q
Her full name was never mentioned so you can easily pretend it was someone else.or them actually being married in "All Good Things".
in the age of "polyamory" becoming a buzzword, and 40yrs after the first time Gene Roddenberry and Vonda N. McIntyre introduced mentions of "group marriages" into the first run of Pocket TOS novels, we really are having a hard time accepting that Geordi could have become a "co-husband"?I was simply under the impression that in the thirty or so years since “Galaxy’s Child” Brahms marriage collapsed and years later she met Geordi again as they move in similar circles and something happened
Funny, Geordi and Leah don't look Denobulan.
There have been multiple human cultures that practiced polygyny or polyandry. As captainmkb says, it's becoming more acceptable in our own culture.
By the same token, there are probably Denobulans who are monogamous, because no entire species can be reduced to a single stereotype, despite the lazy tendency of Trek (and other SF) writers to imply that they can.
i believe i provided a solid TrekLit citation for Human participation in group marriages.Funny, Geordi and Leah don't look Denobulan.
ENT solidly ignored the DS9 novels, DIS and SNW have thus far not touched the matter in detail, but several people here are optimistic about the novels' idea becoming canonical because LD nodded to it in a character name.Has the TrekLit assumption that this means a four-gendered species made it into canon?