I wonder if every vessel is as exciting to serve on as the series’ stars. Is there a mundane cargo hauler out there fighting off Romulans every week? Is a guy using his personal ship as an Uber going to have to deal with Q teleporting him to Earth’s medieval period for shits and grins?
Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.
Sure, that isn’t the greatest job, but you get to nearly die on a starship every week!
I wonder if every vessel is as exciting to serve on as the series’ stars. Is there a mundane cargo hauler out there fighting off Romulans every week? Is a guy using his personal ship as an Uber going to have to deal with Q teleporting him to Earth’s medieval period for shits and grins?
That’s basically how Lower Decks started.
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