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It's possible the UK is waiting for the F-35 joint strike fighter to roll-out so they can load up on those, since the US and NATO are designing them for all NATO allies to use, so the whole alliance has a top-of-the-line fighter. I wouldn't be surprised if the UK loaded their carriers up with those after the roll-out,…
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That would generally act against the various points of a lunar colony which would be to mine helium-3 from the surface, and refuel and repair spacecraft. Besides you'd want surface colonies so that more money would go into research for radiation-countering construction materials and methodologies. There may be portions of…
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Except that you're forgetting Colonel West, officer in the Federation Starfleet Marines, from Star Trek VI. Infact you're pretty much ignoring all of Star Trek VI, and there are several episodes in DS9 where Starfleet is, again, acknowledge as the Military (it's outright stated at one point in the episode where Sisko is…
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Not quite. The United States Air Force also handles scientific Research, and Generals and Admirals within the US Military can handle diplomacy in certain matters. However, we don't do first contact, and since we're currently stuck on a planet with a set of already discovered nations within reach of an airline within 8-13…
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Indeed, to throw my weight in on this since it is something i know a little bit about, The British Empire most certainly has no serious connection to Rome. The closest anyone can get to that is the Greeks, but even barring that, as far as history goes the Franks and the Germanic nations are the ones who tried to Usurp the…
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I don't play identity politics or political correctness, but i won't let you draw me into a debate that is that off topic.
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This is true, and also what i've always found irksome about Star Trek. Romulans usually handled this realistically as being genuinely upset at the Federations Insidious methods of Expansionism, and if other races noticed the radically-increasing-in-size Federation, war would become much more common for the Federation as…
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We're still ignoring that Starfleet is a Military Organization and as such has physical requirements as any other. Some species may have species-specific requirements insofar as they can make up for it in other unique-to-their-species ways, but this may also be why Starfleet is so human dominated; Not all species are fit…
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This is true, after the destruction of Praxis, Starfleet began a "Demilitarization" effort of downsizing its warship compliment and troop recruitment numbers, which continued on until Picards "We have families aboard" era. Of course, in that same movie, Starfleet officers are working with Klingon officers for the sole…
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Phlox is not a member of starfleet and does not serve under their regulations, he is a civilian crewmember "contracted" under Archer and the Enterprise. He is not beholden to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, just as a Mercenary or Civilian Contractor IRL is not. Besides, he still left it up to Archer, he just begged…
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I'm not going to go over all of these points (though we all agree on These Are The voyages), but a lot of this is either nitpicking, insane (Negligent genocide?), or exaggeration to the extreme. I get it, for whatever reason you hate the show, maybe B&B pee'd in your cereal or something, but you are blowing things way out…
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Well that's a serious exaggeration of all of those characters. Reed was descended from Navy men, i highly doubt the modern Royal Navy of the 2100's was using "Antique Cannons", unless you think only 1 division of Earth military keeps up to date. Mayweather was likely selected because of his experience out the outer edges…
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Agree'd somewhat on B&B but i was talking about the show in general, not their specific contribution to it. I also liked the Xindi arc it's problem was taking up a whole season. Also, the show cancelling after Season 4 despite the ratings rebound was completely asinine on the part of the Studio because they know that the…
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What a deep exaggeration of Tuckers portrayal, especially since any "Xenophobia" was no different than the rest of the crew that had to deal with vulcans during the Warp 5 pre-trial period. I also don't see how he's a "redneck stereotype" he's never portrayed as such, but he does have American mannerisms and culture,…
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Well this is nothing but sensationalism and strawman, no offense. You take certain, singular incidents and overblow them to make the characters look bad or to make a point. Maywweather, while underutilized, had the entire pioneer/"Horizon" Background, Tucker was one of the main engineer's during the testing of the warp 5…
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Oversexualized? Are you kidding? With exception of some of the lame decon scenes(which sexualized the men as much as the women) it was pretty much on par with the rest of trek(minus 2 whole scenes in season 3), minus maybe later-half TNG. You're sensationalizing a bit on this point. As for tech, are you talking the time…
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Opinion being what it is, say what you will about B&B but there are several fans here and many elsewhere that would correct you on Enterprise being a "Bomb". Being horribly time slotted and not even available in several major cities (you couldn't even watch it in Portland, Oregon for a long while), ratings isnt the best…
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While it looked like that in the cliffhanger, it was written off pretty well that the alien lizards had nothing to do with TRIBBLE Success, there was a key assassination that took place in russia, preventing the rise of communism and allowing the TRIBBLE's to focus their forces on the western front. The Alien-lizard things…
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Honestly i disagree, i liked a lot of the writing and there were actually quite a few veteran trek writers brought on board, especially in season 3 but especially in season 4. Each character had flaws and was more realistic in comparison to their TNG/Voy counterparts because it was closer to our time and humanity was not…
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Trust me i feel your Anger completely. I've always been a huge Trek fan but the fall of Enterprise still has me down. That was a show that was ENTERING its prime, it was about to hit the golden years, they finally got the right writers, the right producers, eveything was clicking just right. Then BAM. Ugh....
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Among other things yes, we were in store for some good stuff if it hadn't been cancelled, including a nifty Enterprise refit. As for travis, he got some much needed development in Horizon and i think, had the show gone on he woud've gotten more.
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I agree with this 100%. Another thing that really drew me in with Enterprise is, starting with Season 3, it really started embracing a more serial approach instead of episodic, and in season four it mastered it with several arcs with maybe 1 episodic between each arc. It really carried the torch of DS9 imo, and is severely…
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I'm stuck on the outside looking in as well. This patch is great and everyone loves it..
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Thanks for generalizing us republicans as all poor hating backwards bigots who will only be saved if we open our eyes and embrace the far left and join the european «Utopia». As if i dont hear enough of this bull irl. How about we keep this TRIBBLE off general.
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In fact Star Trek: Enterprise plays off this premise in the season 4 premier, where a key assassination before WWII prevented the rise of communist Russia and thus Hitler chose not to attack Russia until it was in a much better position, and eventually it conquered Britain and the northeast of the United States.
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Thus the "They are dying" "LET them die!" exchange.
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Voyager takes it to a whole new level obviously. In fact, i think Voyager wins out over the Defiant since the Defiant actually runs out of plot armor at one point and gets irreversibly destroyed. That only happens to Voyager when a reset button is present XD.
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Whether or not i'm informed is a judgement of me, and should not be discussed. I could have a degree in physics and you wouldn't know it. To say i'm ill informed is to make a character assumption, which is a no-go in debates. It's also an insult in academic circles when you know nothing about the person. So let's just not…
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Wow these forums are far more vile than they were the last time i was here. What's happened? You people do know you can disagree with a man without insulting him or even discussing him personally. Argue the opinion, not the man. Personally i see nothing wrong with making it where you can send Account Bound items through…
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Claiming whether or not i'm ill-informed is an assumption of my personal character, you can disagree with the opinion, not like it, yell at it, but never bring me into it. First thing you learn in any college debate, let alone a nerd debate over trek, which again is not exactly realistic.