• fakeman_pretendname
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    2 days ago

    I imagine cleaning up after “beep beep chair” Captain Pike wasn’t a popular job either.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    2 days ago

    Porthos was very well behaved. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

    Dr. Phlox’s menagerie, though?

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      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?

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        Mandatory copypasta:

        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.