• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Man fuck those parasites.

    The first time I saw that episode, I don’t remember how old I was, but it was one of the first times I was left home alone. And by total coincidence, right when it was at the most intense part of the episode the power went out at my house. It was night time, during a thunderstorm, and no one else was home.

    And then I had to brave the basement to check the breaker box. In the dark. Which was a little Home-Alone-evil-furnace-scene for me under normal circumstances.

  • nomecks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    The actual truth is Star Fleet is all infiltrators, but no infiltrators know that, and they don’t want to blow their cover

    • RiceMunk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like a future Lower Decks episode to me.

      The gang goes infiltrate some fancy pants Starfleet symposium -posing as captains because reasons- in order to find the infiltrator. But it turns out they’re all infiltrators.

    • sirblastalot@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Section 31 actually knows about all the infiltrators, but at least in early stages of their infiltration when they’re trying not to arouse suspicion they end up doing a better job than the human admirals would have anyway, so they’re allowed to do their thing.

  • MudMan@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    I mean, in fairness their strategy for space exploration seems to be to point a starship in a random direction, hit “go” and beam down to every planet with a remotely breathable atmosphere in their PJ onesies.

    The impressive part is they still seem to be the dominant superpower in half the galaxy, so… yay for them.

    • Ibex0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I would probably send drones, but that’s why I’m not a Starfleet captain.

      • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I highly recommend the book Pandora’s Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.

      • MudMan@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Hey, it’s why it’s so possible to make loving parodies of Trek, right? If it seems okay to Tony Shalhoub it’s fine by me.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    S1 TNG is fucking bonkers. I know a lot of the plots are straight retellings of TOS stuff, but a bunch of the rest feel even wackier than TOS on it’s most TAS day.

    • hakunawazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Being an admiral is great. You always have one free violating the prime directive or resisting a direct order from starfleet command and still be captain.

      • sirblastalot@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        And then once you’re a captain you can pretty much violate the prime directive as much as you want with impunity.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    1 year ago

    Part of the problem is that Starfleet is too good to use a cloaking device in their ships. Morons.

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    I was kind of annoyed in Picard when the Changeling infiltrator was genetically modified by Starfleet. I thought it would have been way cooler if the physiological changes were a result of working alongside 8472, given that 8472 also wanted to infiltrate Starfleet and potentially didn’t have the same blood test vulnerability.

    I thought it would have been a neat reference but instead it’s just another one of Starfleet’s evil secrets.