Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Are you going to blame this on the metric system?

Maybe they wait for the waves to wash ashore tree trunks that they can use for their ships. It takes a while but it also spares them the effort of having to grow their own trees and all, much less fuss.

 

yes.

 

But usually we just call that "Monday."

 

And Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and....

 

This is what makes our species great. We have a roughly fixed percentage of the population known as "pioneers". Not the kind of pioneers who pioneer research into new rocket engines or so.

I'm talking the kind of pioneers that verify that the sign for a minefield is there for a reason.

 

Or that the warning labels on a bottle of bleach are warranted.

 

"I wonder if this steaming cup of coffee is hot? It doesn't say so anywhere"

 

Star Trek. I love how the plot is always something like an alien race knocking the whole crew out with gas, cleaning the ship of all tech and supplies, locking the women up to be sold as sex slaves, torturing crew members while potentially killing the whole crew to begin with as they're using gas against an alien species that they don't know.

Then plot armor kicks in, the captain who has a lot more ninja skills than common sense somehow turns the tables, imprisons the aliens without causing as much as a cut or a bruise on any of them.

Then they're restored to their ship and cut loose without ever even bothering to ask them about how they were able to bypass sensors and defenses and knock out the crew in the first place or even considering any level of diplomatic incident or repercussions from first contact being that of the other species trying to steal your ship and enslave it's crew while using torture.

And somehow none of that amounts to hostile action or act of war.

Because, a few episodes later the xenos and humans just shrug and then the xenos just join as part of the human federation who accept them with wide arms because, they can't all be that bad? They only try to enslave humans on sight, they'll make fine productive members of the federation and suddenly their whole mindset is "enlightened" to that of pseudo pacifistic expansionism and xenophilia which is only broken on some odd occasion when the captain is alerted to existence of genetically enhanced humans who are immediately hunted down and exterminated for being different - being superior. The explanation given is that they act aggressively and resort to violence as they are being hunted down with extreme prejudice by federation's fleets. Perhaps the only time in Star Trek universe during which federation is extremely conscious and sensitive of slightest transgressions whereas otherwise they can get over their vessels being routinely boarded and officers being tortured, imprisoned and killed on regular basis with the odd attempt at using biological weapons against Earth or the periodic destruction of military vessels by their enemies.

God I hate Star Trek, love and hate relationship because I grew up on that stuff before I realized how retarded it was.

 

Good advice

 

A Star Trek that's not idealistic and optimistic to a fault wouldn't be Star Trek anymore. The whole point was to couch subjects like racism and religion and politics in a setting so far removed from today's world that Roddenberry could talk about them without putting everybody on the defensive. It's not really supposed to be a realistic representation of society, it's more like the national mythos of the sort of society he thought we should strive for.

 

it forces them into a split screen.. for multiplayer even though they have there own screen.

thats... dumb