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I don't know. The Q episode with the other Q who wanted to die and Janeway had to be the judge was a pretty interesting take on assisted suicide.
Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier
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The blooper take gives a different perspective on their relationship.
S: Bring them back, Q!
Q: Or what, you'll ravish me?
S: I might...
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guess she flunked outta starfleet, bit of a shame really, she really could've gone places.
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Always wondered if the Q Continuum from "Death Wish" inspired the astral diner in SG-1—both just eternal limbos where godlike beings sit around doing absolutely nothing because they’ve run out of things to say.
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Fuck the Borg, give me Tellarite, Andorian, Trill or Bolian badguys.
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Tellarites could have worked if they were the Federation's lawyers. At least, that's how I imagine them functioning in Federation society.
Federation society does have racial niches when you think about it. Like, you want a Vulcan as a scientist or an engineer, but they can only command other Vulcans because they've got terrible interpersonal skills with aliens. The Andorians ended up being the Federation's Klingons, and the Humans are the diplomatic glue that holds them altogether.
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>your lawyer is a tellarite
>the opponent is also one
>court shenanigans ensue
>they take two decades of arguing over some legal bullshit
>the case is suddenly settled by bat'leth duels to the death
How can the legal system get worse HOW CAN IT GET MORE ARCANE
Would watch anyway, because it sounds cool.
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The Borg were great when they came out because they were so alien, powerful, and kinda cool for the time. The make-up and costumes were elaborate and they flew giant spinning cubes. In retrospect, though, there isn't anything to do with them. They have no society, no culture, and no politics. "You will be assimilated," that's it. They're a one-trick pony and that, I suspect, is why the writers of DS9 went with the Dominion as the big bad wolf instead of the Borg.
You can't do a lot with the Borg after the fact. You can do a lot with the Dominion. For example...
In one of my autistic fanfics, an "episode" deals with the crew finding Jem'Hadar holdouts who are dug in like ticks. Federation policy is to always offer repatriation or asylum to holdouts, but they almost always fight to the death or commit perfidy. Their Vorta is long dead and the Founders don't come into the Alpha Quadrant, so the Federation is stuck with the problem. Most of the story is the captain trying to find any other way to resolve the situation than sending in his deatchment of Marines, since he doesn't want to lose any guys because of "Federation policy." It ends with the Marine Lieutenant telling him "bro, we literally became Marines to do this, let us do our job."
You can't do shit like this with the Borg.
You can't do shit like this with the Borg.
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Aren't the Borg now just the ultimate solicsocialist worker droids? All of one mind, to one cause. Controlled by space Karens.
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Dozens, if not hundreds of AR-558s? I like where this is going.
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Sort of. That story is more about examining the rules of engagement as an ethical and operational problem. The Jem'Hadar have had years to dig in, so bombardment isn't an option without causing collateral damage. They're underneath magnesite or some shit, so beaming in isn't possible. The skipper is basically required to announce their presence, pointlessly tell the Jem'Hadar that the war is over and they can go home, alert them that the Federation is there, and then send Marines in to fight a heavily fortified and prepared enemy. That's a shitty order to give a subordinate.
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I mean if they've had time to build bunkers and "dig in" then they've had time to set up beaming scramblers.
Obviously with the tech we are shown in trek, transporter security would be as common as 2FA is in our world. Otherwise why even bother engaging in war? Just fly a cloaked ship to in orbit of the enemy's government and beam their leaders out into space.
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Don't even get me started about the lack of security cameras.
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Can't the ship just wait until they run out of Ketracel White? If they insist on fighting to the end, just naval bombard them? Just send down a couple dozen photon torpedoes and phaser strikes and call it a day. The captain can always feel bad about it later.
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Why would you need this when Voyager established that the ship's computer is constantly monitoring everyone's brain waves?
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CGI is expensive and time consuming while having a bunch of no name "actors" in and out of makeup is cheap and fast. Coupled with doing orbital bombardments doesn't let the writers and directors do their commentaries and spin on WWII, Vietnam, American Civil War and very rarely WWI.
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Fair enough. Although there would need to be a reason given they couldn't just bombard them. Like they're dug in under a city or under a mountain made of Supertoughmaterialite.
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I'm sort of handwaving the Ktracel White thing as either "they have a really big stockpile" or "they figured out a way to replicate it." Naval bombardment is ruled out due to environmental collateral damage and they're supposed to be dug in to the point that even bombardment might not get them all. There are currently bunkers in existence that can survive a direct nuclear blast, so this isn't too farfetched. You don't even need adamantium or whatever supertoughmaterialite to make that work.
The point is that the rules of engagement are strict and a giant pain in the ass. Look up the shit surrounding the Marines barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983 and you'll start to get what I mean. That's a huge inspiration for the story.
Ugh... Voyager was a mistake.