It's a reference to what happened in Star Trek IV.
Sisko built an angry flying brick to deal with his trauma.
It’s funny because they sort of painted themselves into a corner with the whole “Vulcans as IMF structural adjustment for Earth” thing.
What I like is the double standard where Data is doing a Lore cosplay and letting his emotions run wild and it's treated like this super dark, transgressive thing (“is the robot secretly violent??”) but meanwhile Bashir and O’Brien are in the holosuites every other week just blasting historical dudes like they’re in Medal of Honor.
The species in there is the Takaya Whale exactly because Takaya Noriko, main character of Gunbuster
TNG Technical Manual said it was dolphins, other sources have stated that it's a reference to Star Trek IV. Whales didn't survive but dolphins did, I guess? At any rate the whale species may be a reference, but Cetacean Ops in general was meant to be a nod to ST4.
It's weird how despite being the crew with the most experience with the Borg, nobody on the Enterprise thought to devise a countermeasure against them until an opportunity presented itself in the form of Hugh.
What I want to know is why the Vulcans even bothered to put up with the humans if they hated them so much. What do they have to gain from helping them?
Enterprise has the crew of snooty rich kids who don't like violence.What I like is the double standard where Data is doing a Lore cosplay and letting his emotions run wild and it's treated like this super dark, transgressive thing (“is the robot secretly violent??”) but meanwhile Bashir and O’Brien are in the holosuites every other week just blasting historical dudes like they’re in Medal of Honor.
I can hand-wave it away, since they both live on the "frontier," they're two English guys, so they hate Santa Anna and Napoleon.
You have to wonder how the pitch for Cetacean Ops went.
My read on that is that the Vulcans were, and are, timid. Andorians and Humans are bold. Vulcans preferred cloak-and-dagger shit with the Romulans while the Andorians preferred a straight fight.
To be fair to the Enterprise, their mission was exploration and diplomacy. None of them were soldiers, with the exception of O'Brien. It's like asking the 1st Marine Logistics Group to spearhead an invasion.
Sisko was reassigned to Utopia Planitia after Wolf 359, so he had a lot of time to come up with ship designs.
Slightly off topic but having laser disks and your profile pic, do you have the LoGH laser disks by any chance?
O’Brien would make a great Harper.
Holy shit I haven't even seen one of those in over 40 years.
