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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    ryan218 wrote: »
    it was in rihannsu...how was he supposed to know what it meant?

    Not to mention it was in the basement, with the lightbulb blown, locked inside a cupboard marked 'Beware the Sehlat'!

    :p

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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited October 2016
    Remember the incident where Geordi and Ro got phased? Were those Rommies running round freaking out about it? Looks like it was SOP in the Empire for the sh*t to hit the fan, the Federation just didn't hear about it so often... ;)
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    Remember the incident where Geordi and Ro got phased? Were those Rommies running round freaking out about it? Looks like it was SOP in the Empire for the sh*t to hit the fan, the Federation just didn't hear about it so often... ;)

    It was just the one Romulan, as I recall, and he'd been in that state for a few hours at least by the time the Enterprise showed up. Plenty of time to have a silent freakout and then get over it.

    When these things happen to the other species, it's a one-in-a-million thing. For humans, it's just another Tuesday. :)
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Also note after the Federation showed up, all those fancy computerized safety systems for the warp core failed completely but somehow a manual control on the eject worked.

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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    Also note after the Federation showed up, all those fancy computerized safety systems for the warp core failed completely but somehow a manual control on the eject worked.

    It may be contagious!

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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    Remember the incident where Geordi and Ro got phased? Were those Rommies running round freaking out about it? Looks like it was SOP in the Empire for the sh*t to hit the fan, the Federation just didn't hear about it so often... ;)

    It was just the one Romulan, as I recall, and he'd been in that state for a few hours at least by the time the Enterprise showed up. Plenty of time to have a silent freakout and then get over it.

    When these things happen to the other species, it's a one-in-a-million thing. For humans, it's just another Tuesday. :)
    Sure, he had obviously settled down, but none of the rest of the crew were particularly bothered about it either, and what could be taken as them being 'cagey' and 'evasive' in their dealings with Riker and Worf, well, they were Romulans... That's how Romulans are :D One wouldn't visit the Hall of Warriors, for example, and think the Klingons were being a bit boisterous :D
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    Humans are reckless because we want to taste the fruits of our labors personally rather than leaving them for our descendants. That is why we are remarkably uninterested in projects that will not bear fruit until after we have died of old age.
  • lordgyorlordgyor Member Posts: 2,820 Arc User
    Those are the funniest comments and really drive home part of why I love star trek so much.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited January 2017
    Humans are always exception in some way in Sci-Fi...

    But I think the miracolous feats of engineering are not actually limited to humans. It just happens to be we only see the Human Engineers. But don't we actually see Worf build a personal shield to protect from bullets from his communicator?

    My theory is more that they can achieve these insane feats of engineering because it's a Federation. They don't just have human geniuses working on the gear - they have geniuses from countless of worlds working on it. And then they presumably hire only the best and brightest to use that gear. Under pressure. (You know, Alert Klaxons going, enemy gunfire, a stern look from Captain Picard)

    If you put the smartest 1 % of the smartest 1 % of hundreds of species together on your ships, you should expect a few surprises.


    The Klingons however? They just got other Klingons. Romulans have just Romulans.
    The Borg - they have all the species -but then put them into a Hive Mind that removes all creativity or sense of wonder.
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