funny thing is, the london blitz happened because of an accident...his royal fruitcake originally ordered london to be left alone, but during one of the luftwaffe's night raids, a group lost their way and accidentally bombed london...so churchill retaliated by bombing berlin, and old bubblehead ALSO retaliated by starting…
(government type, laws and rights, systems under their control, position in the galaxy, military composition, weapons in use - there is a LOT he can ask)
alex: the usual - assault and battery, arson, murder, grape, pedophilia, child endangerment and so on, when those things actually happen...generally, they don't - all the other stuff is just fines, counseling and/or community service as necessary and we have no death penalty - neither does the federation as of the 2260s…
alex: like...prisons? i don't know what that means - if it's what do they look like, just think about the most modern prison you've ever seen and ours are like that - giant central buildings with walled-in courtyards, an attached medbay for taking care of minor injuries, a cafeteria for meal prep, exercise area, laundry…
alex: they have to be somewhere - they can't have just vanished off the face of the galaxy, nor can they have gone very far with that level of damage even with how much faster hyperdrive is compared to the non-ancient FTL native to this galaxy *he looks over to dundee* since this is clearly not going anywhere, i can field…
you know, the ironic thing is, with the non-existence of existing complex extraterrestrial life in reality thanks to the fermi paradox, alien life will come about because of humanity altering itself to fit alien worlds - or just for the hell of it - over the course of millions of years as we spread out across the universe…
(i thought mira was a mandalorian? how does she know what a bullpup is, or what caliber round it takes?) alex: well, TRIBBLE...still nothing and some of the probes ran into hazards - on the plus side, we got some REALLY impressive scans of a magnetar before one of the probes blew up - anything on your ends, messrs kinkoshi…
*another hour later, alex checks up on the status of the probes to see if they've found anything interesting - stranded mandalorians or otherwise (HINT HINT!!!!)
it wasn't ONE shot, they were firing everything they had - it's hard to see among the STO-esque LSD-fueled lightshow, but those destroyers were definitely firing beams just as fast as enterprise and discovery were firing theirs
DIS: took thousand of shots from hundreds of drones and dozens of capital ships and took no damage at all aside from a chunk taken out of the saucer because of a torpedo SPECIFICALLY designed to penetrate armor TOS took MAYBE two dozen shots combined over the entirety of the show's runtime - that is NOT a beating, by any…