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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

star trek owns and its really annoying that pedophiles have sullied its name.

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

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.

Incidentally this is the best episode of TOS ever. The set design is proper ridic too.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Shadoer posted:

A more in universe explanation is that the Federation doesn't seem to

Crews however are a different story. Just to get into Starfleet Academy you need a high IQ or the equivalent of a masters degree. Then passing the tests and getting through the training in the Academy is ridiculous and weeds out even more people. After all that, you are still likely to end up on a lovely assignment s like cataloging asteroids. and can only dream of being a captain of something important.


Wesley Crusher mentions that being the helmsman of the Enterprise, the FLAGSHIP, gets him credits which allow him to enter the academy, lmao.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Shadoer posted:

Yeah? The boy is portrayed as a super genius. Also, being allowed to do poo poo on a flagship while incredibly stupid should be a case in favor of being let into the academy.

my point is that if he's doing that he should be getting more than a handful of credits that he could probably also get doing a creative writing module on Binars or something.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Gatts posted:

TNG had lame rear end Worf getting his rear end kicked. DS9 had Worf as a sufficient badass and some good moments. Like when he snapped Weyon's neck, another Weyoun clone comes out and the Cardassian Damarr makes a crack poking fun at him for being killed and go try talking to Worf again.

Some Kanar with Damarr.



the best hard word moments are that double-parter where he's taking on a poo poo loads of enemies in that battle area while Gurak is fagging out behind a wall.

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

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.

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.

Lol. I like this post a lot.

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