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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the Snake game.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The thing that gets me about this episode is how it compares to All Good Things.

In AGT there's a scene where Picard is in the past on the bridge and he's ordering them into the anomaly, an act which seriously threatens to destroy the ship, and for which he gives no good reason. The crew reasonably objects, and Picard launches into an unpersuasive and platitudinal speech about how awesome the crew is. And the crew goes along with it.

Contrast this with the scene in Allegiance where "Picard" orders them into the anomaly, an act which seriously threatens to destroy the ship and for which he gives no good reason. "Picard" assures them with an unpersuasive and platitudinal speech. And the crew mutinies.

While it's true that in Allegiance the crew were already suspicious, it's also true that in the AGT scene the crew didn't know Picard well enough to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That's nice, but it'd really be cool if he was also the messiah of an alien religion. Oh well.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

More like the military governor of a port city. Even if Starfleet isn't a military organization, the Bajoran Militia most definitely is one. And by means of the Bajoran soldiers under his direct (even divine) command, Sisko exercises legislative, executive, and judicial power at the equivalent of a municipal level, even extending over the civilian population of the station.

Now I want to see the timeline where Sisko declares DS9 an independent state.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Mirab with sails unfurled!

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish recruitment office?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My headcanon is that the author of the holonovel wasn't as well versed in early 20th century slang as they purported to be, and the phrase is an in-universe anachronism.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago

I'm going to start using this expression in every day conversation.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

Assuming it survives the fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, the building management should be able to retrieve it for you.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Help control the human population, have your children spayed or neutered." (/s)

Maybe we shouldn't dismiss the distinction so readily.

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