Picard, Ro, Keiko O’Brien and Guinan (the last two aren’t Starfleet). Alexander, son of Worf, helps out.
How about that DS9 episode where Sisko dumped toxic waste on that one human colony in relaliation for a terrorist attack against a Cardassian colony. WTF? Did Starfleet learn its problem-solving skills from the Israelis? Wasn’t that some sort of Crime Against Humanity (or whatever the intergalactic equivalent of that crime would be)? To make matters worse, he did it without any approval from his superiors. In any real-world scenario, that would be guaranteed life in prison.
Wasn’t Keiko some sort of low-level officer, like a teacher or something?
She’s a civilian botanist although she did teach for a few years on Deep Space Nine due to the station having no immediate use of her specialty.
Excuse me? ;j
Hmm… interesting question. Back when she was on Enterprise-D, she was a botanist, in charge of the Arboretum. However… I don’t think we ever saw her in a Starfleet uniform when she was on duty, which would seem to suggest that she wasn’t in the Starfleet science divisions, but a civilian.
If so, it raises the question of how civilians get assigned to a ship like the Enterprise. In the episode with the junior officers, (Lower Decks,) there was a ten-forward waiter who was bragging about how life was much easier as a civilian, how he didn’t have to take things as seriously as the junior officers or insist on addressing the bridge crew strictly according to protocol. Hmm…
(on preview.) Hi Aesiron. Do you have a cite that she’s a civilian? It occurs to me that the sciences might be less formal about uniforms than other branches of starfleet… I mean, imagine trying to get a roomful of scientists to all dress alike…
Nothing primary but Memory Alpha, Star Trek’s wiki project, corroborates that she is a civilian in its opening sentence of her biography.
I knew someone would take issue with that comment. I was referring to the Israeli government’s infamous “collective punishment” strategy for dealing with terrorist attacks.
No, he surrendered to Q.
Wow. I read that very same MA article, and didn’t notice the opening sentence. Duh!
[quote=Malacandra]
No, he surrendered to Q.
[quote]
Okay, technically he didn’t surrender to the space alien. But consider this… the space jellyfish was attacking the Bandi, who Picard was in negotiations with. Picard sent over a party to explore the ‘ship’, found out that the Bandi leader had been abducted and was being tortured somehow, and what did he do?
He fed an energy beam into Farpoint station, allowing the jellyfish there to escape the planet and leave with the attacking space jellyfish. Of course, his decision was phrased in terms of humanitarian sentiments, high Federation ideals, and emancipation… but it might also be viewed as an act of appeasement to a dangerous enemy that he didn’t entirely understand. The jellyfish got what they wanted, right?
Picard did have a troubling tendency to surrender in the first two years of the Enterprise-D’s mission:
- to Q in “Encounter at Farpoint”
- to the Ferengi in “The Last Outpost”
- to a Klingon Bird of Prey (granted, it was with a wink and a nod to Riker, who was technically in command of the Klingon ship at the time) in “A Matter of Honor”
Fortunately, he got over it.
He didn’t surrender in “Rascals,” but the Ferengi did capture the Enterprise in that episode. :rolleyes: If that didn’t get him court-martialed, nothing would…
And what they deserved - the freeing of the jellyfish who had been unjustly enslaved by the Bandi. An adept assessment of the rights and wrongs of the situation that even Q couldn’t fault, much as he might have wanted to. It’s not like there was any hint that the Enterprise D couldn’t have stood up to the orbiting jellyfish if it had had to. And the Bandi got out of it alive and well - all without the series’ new captain having to get into a single fistfight.
Like every episode of every Star Trek series didn’t have plot holes big enough to drop a spacestation through??
As an apparently dedicated masochist, I am finally sitting through all of the Enterprise episodes as they air in reruns on Space. Trying to ignore the staggeringly inconsistent use of speed and distance in the storylines, nary an episode goes by in which I don’t identify a serious crime or two by one of the senior officers.
So name 'em.