I knew you’d be along to outgeek me, but I figured you’d also comment on Barbara Babcock’s costume. Instead you’ve forced me to do so myself.
That Ware and his titillating costumes!
How can I force you to do what you’re so very happy to do on your own?
Well, it’s only about 16 Gigatons worth of antimatter weapons on a Galaxy-class…hardly enough to make a fuss about, really.
You get a lot further with a therapist and a photon torpedo than just a therapist.
I’m putting that on my coat of arms.
Isotons. You need a computer with a lot of kiloquads to add up all those isotons.
1000 kellicams, … closing
Y’know, it might have worked, if she’d joined the cast in Season 1, Episode 1…
I don’t understand this. How are the experiences of persons other than herself relevant to her own reactions?
Because if she meets the guy when We The Viewers do, maybe we’d see her as making humorous and interesting points while she and we eventually come to accept him as “Him” instead of “It”. But for her to try it after Brent Spiner’s been quirkily charming us for a year? Don’t make me quote Spock re: it may not be logical, but it is often true.
What always got me was the inclusion of families–including children–on the ship. You’d think after the eighth or tenth time that the Enterprise is nearly destroyed in some interspecies conflict or by the latest space “phenomenon” that the parents might think “hmm, maybe we should just drop the kids off at summer camp…”.
The thing is, while I don’t expect Trek to be the height of realism, it wouldn’t be believable to every major character to buy into Data’s personhood. It was refreshing for somebody to have to be convinced of it. And, as I wrote upthread, she was convinced he was a person by the end of her time on the show.
That bugged me too. Especially after that other Galaxy class ship got destroyed while they watched. You’d think that every parent with a kid on board would have said, “Captain, either I transfer off this ship or I resign my commission. You decide.”
Why would that be the captain’s decision?
Of course the captain would have to approve a transfer request. That’s made obvious by the series in several episodes. If Picard refused to allow a transfer, the officer would have to resign to get off ship–which Picard could probably delay only temporarily, at best.
Like I said earlier, character growth! It is a useful tool and maybe since I’m grown up now I just like more flawed characters. I hate the idea that TNG had, that they were so enlightened.
I can’t watch DS9 for a while. I need to watch something else.
I’ve complained about this many times. Laying aside the “felony endangerment” issue, children on a starship would be the ultimate in nonessential personnel.
“Oh,” someone always says, “you can’t keep people separated from their families for such long periods of time.” Bullshit! People who serve in the military can be and are separated from their families all the time. If you don’t want to be separated from your family, don’t sign up! There are probably thousands of suitable personnel across the Federation already waiting in line for the post you just turned down.
I can see having husband and wife teams serving on board Starfleet vessels, but if a woman was found to be pregnant, she should be given the choice of early retirement or rotation to a shore base. Birth control on board ship would be voluntary for married females, mandatory for unmarried ones. That was how it was done on TOS, though it was never discussed on screen.
Makes you wonder what Roddenberry et al. were smoking the day they finalized that bit of the TNG format.
But according to Picard Starfleet is not a military organization! He said it so it must be true.