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Drunkboxer posted:or that one where they embarrassingly play baseball the whole time. you are embarrassingly wrong about that episode, it owns
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numberoneposter posted:Kirk is the best captain because of that episode where this civilization has a simulated war between the two major powers but people are selected by computers on both sides to die and have to report to disintegration chambers and in order to stop this madness from happening he tells the Enterprise to glass the planet from orbit unless they agree to a peace treaty. Kirk gets what Kirk wants. It's even better than that. He ends up destroying their computer and tells them that they have to actually fight their war. The justification being that the horrors of a real war will hopefully be an incentive to end it. At least, that's how i remember it. Anyway: Picard Kirk Sisko Archer ( season 3 & 4) Kelsey Grammer Janeway
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# ? Feb 1, 2015 23:23 |
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The Space Irish episode just came on tv.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 00:29 |
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Money has no meaning in the future so its ok if you kill a spaceship on its maiden voyage again and again, thats like spilled milk
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 00:30 |
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That is actually a good question op, but not because Picard is a bad captain because he's an exceptional captain. It's because, despite being an excellent negotiator and diplomat he is awful at politics. He repeatedly refuses to play the game at all, which endears him to other similarly minded captains but makes him a non-starter at SFC. Every interaction he has with an admiral is with barely contained contempt, he hates schmoozing, throws boring parties grudgingly and has little patience for the shallow and ignorant. How does he convince any committee of anything? How does he prevent himself from being used as a political puppet - on a few occasions he hasn't at all. The thing is, Riker is better at politics than he is, and he's more driven. I suspect that the reason why they kept giving Picard ships is because he's Riker's kryptonite. After getting to the Enterprise he gave all his ambition. What must have seemed like an enormous threat: talented, charming, likable, talented, handsome and sharp; incomprehensibly sequestered himself at the other end of the quadrant. He could have taken any admiral's job, annihilated whatever factions are at play, totally altering the political landscape. They would sign anything that meant keeping that singularity of devastation away.
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# ? Feb 2, 2015 01:35 |
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Also, that time that Picard got turned into a kid by SPACE PLANTS, why did he change himself back? He could have doubled his lifespan by doing nothing. Longer career = even more ships to blow up.
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Volcott posted:Also, that time that Picard got turned into a kid by SPACE PLANTS, why did he change himself back? He could have doubled his lifespan by doing nothing. And become the thing he hates the most? I mean gently caress if he didnt wanna stay a Borg, then he CERTAINLY wouldnt wanna stay a loving child
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Volcott posted:Also, that time that Picard got turned into a kid by SPACE PLANTS, why did he change himself back? He could have doubled his lifespan by doing nothing. they should have made the kid be bald too
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spooky girlfriend posted:you are embarrassingly wrong about that episode, it owns this is you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsjlTF0lEWg
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Gutcruncher posted:And become the thing he hates the most? I mean gently caress if he didnt wanna stay a Borg, then he CERTAINLY wouldnt wanna stay a loving child
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chaosbreather posted:That is actually a good question op, but not because Picard is a bad captain because he's an exceptional captain. It's because, despite being an excellent negotiator and diplomat he is awful at politics. He repeatedly refuses to play the game at all, which endears him to other similarly minded captains but makes him a non-starter at SFC. Every interaction he has with an admiral is with barely contained contempt, he hates schmoozing, throws boring parties grudgingly and has little patience for the shallow and ignorant. How does he convince any committee of anything? How does he prevent himself from being used as a political puppet - on a few occasions he hasn't at all. Tbf there's like maybe two admirals who aren't possessed by bluegill or just straight up evil, and one is bitcheyev and one helped cerberus gently caress up romulan politics, so Picard is 100% in the right. Janeway fits right in.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 02:21 |
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chaosbreather posted:That is actually a good question op, but not because Picard is a bad captain because he's an exceptional captain. It's because, despite being an excellent negotiator and diplomat he is awful at politics. He repeatedly refuses to play the game at all, which endears him to other similarly minded captains but makes him a non-starter at SFC. Every interaction he has with an admiral is with barely contained contempt, he hates schmoozing, throws boring parties grudgingly and has little patience for the shallow and ignorant. How does he convince any committee of anything? How does he prevent himself from being used as a political puppet - on a few occasions he hasn't at all. Lol. I like this post a lot.
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