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The second part is true. The first part is categorically false. The Prime Directive was IRL born out of the Cold War and European colonialism. It was supposed to be a caution against imperialism, a la what most of the Western (white) world had been doing in Africa, Asia, and the Americas pretty much continuously for the…
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Never said they didn't. I said they're supposed to be portrayed as wrong when they display them, and in other series they usually are. Please reread the parts where I explicitly said that Borg drones were victims of the Borg and explained the difference between murder and self-defense, and come back when you can explain to…
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Syfy gave the same excuse for cancelling Stargate Atlantis, except it was that they were attracting a majority of women viewers over men rather than an age thing. It didn't make any more sense to me then: if you're attracting a different audience than you expected, then tailor the ad buys to the audience you're attracting.…
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Okay, thank you, now the problem makes a lot more sense.
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Really? 🤭 The Borg? 😂 The friggin Borg, that's what you're going with? 🤣 The Borg Collective commits genocide by its very existence: it has been wiping out civilizations and suppressing the identities of their inhabitants to turn them into peripheral devices for itself for millennia. The Borg is not an ethnic group that…
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I'm confused. Are you saying that Cryptic both should and shouldn't continue to post updates to Twitter? I'm going to ignore the part about company policies (anybody with sense is using a VPN for their personal devices outside their home network, and what are you doing trying to play or read about video games on a company…
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I don't have a problem with character growth. My problem is that her racist views are never actually challenged in the season: she just randomly remembers in the last half-hour that, oh, wait, genocide is wrong. Also, again, regime change by nuclear blackmail? Hello? Anyone? (Bueller?) That's not the Federation. Yes, it…
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This, right here.
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Honestly my biggest critique of a lot of the current generation of Trek isn't that it's "woke", but that it's often clueless and performative about it: it's become more about virtue-signalling, preaching to the choir, than about actually making a decisive point and advocating real change. The first season of Discovery is…
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I finished season 2, and then my friend told me about how in season 3 it turned out the galaxy's dilithium was blown up by a child's temper tantrum. At that point I concluded the entire writing room had OD'd on Stamets's product and noped out for good. Strange New Worlds was really damn good though.
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Cryptic gets paid in these things by free marketing. Somebody spends money on the vanity shield, they might spend it on something else. It's the same as when companies offer raffle prizes to promote NPR and PBS pledge drives: they're hoping you'll remember them positively and come back. Also they get to write the cost of…
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A quick look at the website and the wiki shows no obvious documentation of this feature. It may have been previously documented in a blog by Cryptic when it was introduced, but I'm scratching my head as to how somebody who doesn't religiously follow the blog and/or is newer than that was supposed to find out about…
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Clearly you haven't been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
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The Ferengi in DS9 don't appear to overall have a problem with other civilizations practicing different gender roles, barring one early episode with Nog (who was like fifteen at the time and, like most fifteen-year-olds, was an idiot). Quark tries to con Sakonna in "The Maquis, Part I" and is a serial sexual harasser, but…
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I agree with @qultuq, I would be inclined to go with "Ex Astris, Salus", it fits well with a bunch of other "ex <word 1>, <word 2>" mottos: e.g. Starfleet's own "Ex Astris, Scientia" ("from the stars, knowledge") and the US Naval Academy's "Ex Scientia, Tridens" ("from knowledge, a trident", the latter metaphorically…
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I tend to classify Paragon/Renegade as more idealism and cooperativeness vs. cynicism and going it alone. Interrupts really aren't a good illustration; probably the best illustration is how Shepard deals with Khalisah al-Jilani in ME1. The Paragon approach has Shepard play diplomat, e.g. playing up the turians' involvement…
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We've gone from Space Dubya Chancellor Chickenhawk to L'Rapist. The proverbial house is still burning. I'm having the exact same reaction to this arc that I did to the Blog War: a decent start but then it ends in disaster. I'm beginning to think the reason the Klingons joined the Federation in the future is because their…
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I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwMtIhdgnmI
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> @jonsills said: > Thank you. The online sources I have are worse than useless for things that aren't translated for them from the movies. I am proud to have assisted someone in saying "The Three Stooges" in Klingon. 🤣
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Some thesaurus options for "stooge":* servant: toy'wI * foolish: Dogh ("to be foolish") The correct pluralizer suffix is "-pu'" (for beings capable of using language). And when using a number for counting, it goes in front of the noun. So "Three stooges" would be wej qoHpu' or maybe wej toy'wIpu' Dogh.
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That's because the British monarch is still legally their head of state, even though for all practical purposes the royal governor-general is a ceremonial position. Australian dollar bills still have Queen Elizabeth II on them.
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Haven't been able to play the mission yet due to a network issue, but from what I'm hearing, I'm not sure I even want to. Frankly, the Great Houses were right in "House Divided": between an ultranationalist terrorist (Droola) and a power-hungry genocidal warmonger (Jimmy Pok), their best option is to let them fight each…
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No, it was because the Enterprise was an American ship in the first couple of episodes. There was also a bit where they were part of the "United Earth Space Probe Agency". The TOS writers basically made things up as they went along: it wasn't for several episodes before Gene Coon established the concept of the Federation.
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I don't know the voice actor but she honestly sounded to me like somebody from southern California trying way too hard to sound like Texas. I mean, I like the flavor, but she overdid it. For reference, I'm from central North Carolina. I've got a bit of the accent myself.
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^You're confusing Cretak with Vreenak there, Rattler.
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So your argument is that because the bad guys did it first, that makes it okay? ;) Although, I honestly don't care so much about the bioweapon attack on the Founders. "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" is far more illustrative of Section 31's true nature. In order to ensure that the Romulan Star Empire will not later exit the…
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Hint here: The Prime Directive exists for the same reason. Ideally you'd catch imperialist wingnuts like that idiot from "Patterns of Force" with pre-enlistment psychiatric screenings, but in the case that one slips through, the prospect of serious legal trouble for acting like a conquistador might just deter them from…
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Section 31 is not allowed by the United Earth Starfleet charter. It is named after a part of the charter that corresponds to "emergency law" provisions in many other bodies of law: for example the emergency management laws under which US governors handle hurricanes, wildfires, and presently the COVID-19 pandemic, or the…
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Gary Larson had a species of owl louse named after him because of all the Far Side strips he did about insects.
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Fun fact: They ripped off Control from an even worse David Mack novel series where it turned out that Control was largely responsible for the Federation's formation in the first place. By means of organizing the secret extermination of political dissidents after World War III. Section 31's entire ethos from its inception…