great authority, yes...of a single ship that belonged to, what was at the time, a bog-standard enemy-of-the-week even if it was their second appearance - i would be hesitant to call that substantial
alex: well...*he gives dundee an abridged version of the autobot-decepticon great war, including what little he knows of its origins on cybertron - VERY abridged, as he doesn't want to be standing around for half an hour or longer*
alex: well...would you believe a secret war in the mid-1980s of sapient alien robots who could shift to forms obtained from earth military and civilian vehicles in order to remain hidden?
alex: he smells the same as he always has to me, and yes, he was talking about vlad the impaler - the same man whom bram stoker based his fictional dracula off...of course, his dracula was just fiction, but the one he based it off was a real vampire
alex: WAY older - by at least a millennium, if not more (and you know, those PADDs probably beep or chirp or something when they receive a message - i realize the federation has forgotten a good many common sense techs since WW3, like seatbelts, fuses and robust antivirus, but i'd think that at least an audible alert of a…
alex: that was dumb, dracula, very, very dumb...*he says after withdrawing his tongue which he stuck out to taste the air after the aura flare* when someone decides you aren't a threat and are willing to let you leave, you don't go and do something that makes half the task force consider you one
alex: i honestly don't think he's actually that much of a threat - he doesn't even feel all that powerful but i still want to know his name (and when did alex end up hating vampires? only matt does - alex journeyed with one for well over a year through cyrodiil, and even took him under his tail many times)
alex: and as the leader of an interstellar nation, it behooves me to take threats against allies seriously...and personally, threats against my pack as well
and if star trek were actually proper sci-fi following real known science...that would not be an impediment - at all especially for an empire depicted with that level of technology we see them with - and even AFTER losing the world heart, it still shouldn't have been an impediment
(so um...apparently the latest lower decks episode lampshaded the popular speculation of what a holodeck would actually be used for, and therefore made it true so 'c-m filter' is now a thing oh, and the universe in star trek is also situated on the back of a giant, smiling koala)
it's also called that because of the sheer amount of deaths the day used to - and still does - see...but people would rather use the more cheerful version for obvious reasons