Given the fact that kinetic weapons (even holographic ones) seem to stay effective, you'd expect them to replicate some of these archaic 'guns' that Picard found useful there, or else go the high-tech and more prone to plot-induced failure route of putting holo-emitters everywhere. If boarded by Borg, active the Bruce Campbell simulation and tell him to shoot all the techno-zombies with his holo-boomstick.
We don't actually know that they stay effective. Picard kills a couple drones at once, and then doesn't kill more. Worf kills one on screen and probably killed the one attacking him first. A phaser on a new setting does the same, you get 2-4 reliable kills before it stops working.
It's getting into actual science, but kinetic energy is still energy. If a drone can generate a shield strong enough to block it, I'd have expected them to adapt to kinetic energy at some point over the presumably hundred of years of being hit with things. Energy weapons can be handwaved by finding the right frequency to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow or something, but physical impacts are going to need either just stronger shields, or actual physical armor. It's not something that adjusting a frequency is going to be able to stop.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
One wonders if after the first few bath’lethings, the mix of drones beamed in to the front lines would start to include more Klingon/Nausicaan/Gorn “stock” or drones with like, cargo-loader arms, etc.
My group investigated an Orion freighter a lot, found a borg power relay in amongst deuterium. Then, while neutrino radiation bombarded them, got diplomatic permission to board the orion freeport and disarm the ferengi coin mining operation.
Fun session with the group all identifying their various relations to starfleet ethics. Even if we missed our Ferengi science officer and bajoran medical head.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
One wonders if after the first few bath’lethings, the mix of drones beamed in to the front lines would start to include more Klingon/Nausicaan/Gorn “stock” or drones with like, cargo-loader arms, etc.
Borgified Gorn are pretty scary in STO.
"This doesn't look like my arm... it's in the right place, but I remember my arm being less gunny."
Unfortunately, they don't show up very often in game.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
One wonders if after the first few bath’lethings, the mix of drones beamed in to the front lines would start to include more Klingon/Nausicaan/Gorn “stock” or drones with like, cargo-loader arms, etc.
Borgified Gorn are pretty scary in STO.
"This doesn't look like my arm..."
Unfortunately, they don't show up very often in game.
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Damn, I might have to track this shirt down now. I feel like it would definitely get me put on some FBI list or two.
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
One wonders if after the first few bath’lethings, the mix of drones beamed in to the front lines would start to include more Klingon/Nausicaan/Gorn “stock” or drones with like, cargo-loader arms, etc.
Borgified Gorn are pretty scary in STO.
"This doesn't look like my arm..."
Unfortunately, they don't show up very often in game.
The last time one showed up it was almost a relief because things had spiralled so far out of control.
STO is a one stop shop if you've ever asked, "What would that look like assimilated?" The answer is usually terrifying.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
One wonders if after the first few bath’lethings, the mix of drones beamed in to the front lines would start to include more Klingon/Nausicaan/Gorn “stock” or drones with like, cargo-loader arms, etc.
Borgified Gorn are pretty scary in STO.
"This doesn't look like my arm..."
Unfortunately, they don't show up very often in game.
The last time one showed up it was almost a relief because things had spiralled so far out of control.
STO is a one stop shop if you've ever asked, "What would that look like assimilated?" The answer is usually terrifying.
For those that don't play STO, that second picture is an assimilated Iconian.
Bad times...
I watched Insurrection last night and...its fine. I think the craziest thing was that the Ba'ku were manufacturing ketracel white for the Dominion. Guess all that face stretching really...stretches ones budget.
Watched Insurrection tonight and its not as bad as I remembered? Well, not remembered since I forget the entire movie after each viewing (I think this was the third).
I have no idea why Shinzon or then Remans want to wipe out Earth though. They make an offhand comment about being slaves to nobody, but like the Federation isnt trying to enslave them and would probably leave them alone if thats what they wanted?
And there was more Troi mind rape... But I think it was part of a masturbation scene for Shinzon? The whole thing was weird.
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
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That overlooks the fact that Janeway was on the ship at the time of her survival, which was a greater sacrifice than the Federation would willingly have chosen.
At least when she was in the Delta Quadrant, the body count was a bunch of people the Federation didn't know.
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
Part of Picard's long-term plan to make sure he never gets promoted out of being Captain; if it ever looks like it's going to happen, crash the ship. All based on the advice of Captain Kirk.
(And First Contact wasn't the E's first outing, they said they'd been out there for a year already. A competent review of the mission reports from that would be more inclined to punish him for not blowing the ship up the moment he knew the Borg were on board.)
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
Part of Picard's long-term plan to make sure he never gets promoted out of being Captain; if it ever looks like it's going to happen, crash the ship. All based on the advice of Captain Kirk.
(And First Contact wasn't the E's first outing, they said they'd been out there for a year already. A competent review of the mission reports from that would be more inclined to punish him for not blowing the ship up the moment he knew the Borg were on board.)
Picard et. al. get away with their bullshit because they usually save the entire Federation and/or galactic civilization in extremely public fashion.
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
Part of Picard's long-term plan to make sure he never gets promoted out of being Captain; if it ever looks like it's going to happen, crash the ship. All based on the advice of Captain Kirk.
(And First Contact wasn't the E's first outing, they said they'd been out there for a year already. A competent review of the mission reports from that would be more inclined to punish him for not blowing the ship up the moment he knew the Borg were on board.)
I swear he was offered a promotion to Admiral at one point as well for a position at the Academy which he seriously considered. Season 1 and I want to say it was in Conspiracy as part of the whole bug thing. I can find reference to him being offered the position during the year the first season takes place, but can't figure out the episode without rewatching I guess. I would normally jump at this but just can't.
That exchange is one of the reason it is a bit heart breaking that Star Trek Academy and Picard are contemporaries as Picard would have been a great character for that show as a recurring guest in charge of it all. It has also led to my fan theory that they don't offer him another admiral position because last time they did it wiped out a bunch of senior officers. That might also explain why there are so many shitty admirals in the immediate years afterwards too come to think of it.
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
Part of Picard's long-term plan to make sure he never gets promoted out of being Captain; if it ever looks like it's going to happen, crash the ship. All based on the advice of Captain Kirk.
(And First Contact wasn't the E's first outing, they said they'd been out there for a year already. A competent review of the mission reports from that would be more inclined to punish him for not blowing the ship up the moment he knew the Borg were on board.)
For whatever reason I thought they were completing/had just completed their shakedown run at the beginning of First Contact, but now that you mention it maybe they were complaining about being relegated to the Neutral Zone so long after shakedown.
It is very good and it's taken the crown from TNG as my favorite Trek.
Some general thoughts. Spoilers for the other people working through the series.
1. Everything felt so much more alive and lived in than TNG. So many great recurring side characters. Just the multiple background actors on the promenade made everything feel like a real world.
2. The Seventh Season felt rushed. I liked the symmetry between the Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths, but the seeds here should have been planted six seasons prior. I also liked the idea of the Kai becoming increasingly jealous of Sisko (she's had no visions or prophecies. She's running Bajor but Sisko gets all the love and celebrations) and it would have been cool of she has a vision and it turned out to be the Pah-Wraiths manipulating her. As mentioned elsewhere, making Gul Dukat the vessel was lame as hell.
2a. The Dominion War and conclusion also got shorted. Introducing the Breen should have been a huge moment, but I was just like "Who the hell are these guys? Oh just another convenient ally so the Dominion continues to threaten everyone."
3. I wanted more Romulans! They get in the war but they don't get a major character. We've got Martok and the one not evil Admiral, where's the Romulans in those three way zoom calls?
4. Kiras arc from terrorist to begrudging Bajoran officer to using her same skills to fight for CARDASSIAN freedom while wearing a Starfleet uniform was great!!!
5. Ezri and Julian seemed to be because no one knew what to do with either of those characters.
I really liked it. On to Voyager to find out why Janeway is a psychopath.
DS9 having way more scenes where characters are just doing or chatting about random stuff on the station is it's best strength.
Like I think Garak would become an imminently boring character if he didn't get so much time to chat with Julian and instead was just the cardassian side character whipped out for plot reasons.
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I don't think Janeway is a psychopath; that's mostly a memey internet thing. She's just inconsistently written, sometimes in funny ways, but is mostly just bland.
I don't think Janeway is a psychopath; that's mostly a memey internet thing. She's just inconsistently written, sometimes in funny ways, but is mostly just bland.
I don't think Janeway is a psychopath; that's mostly a memey internet thing. She's just inconsistently written, sometimes in funny ways, but is mostly just bland.
is janeway holding you hostage? blink twice.
Whatever you do, don't follow the impulse to splash scalding hot coffee in her face and use the moment of shock to escape.
It won't slow her down, and she'll be really pissed about the wasted coffee.
I don't think Janeway is a psychopath; that's mostly a memey internet thing. She's just inconsistently written, sometimes in funny ways, but is mostly just bland.
is janeway holding you hostage? blink twice.
I dunno if we can be this direct. It seems like any response might set him up for a "transporter accident" in the very near future.
Well, in the Pilot episode of Voyager, Janeway almost immediately decided to sacrifice her entire crew to protect the Ocampa.
Seems pretty decent of her so far.
Second Episode immediately leaping into the problems of food shortage, Maquis integration into the crew, and the Doctor questioning his own self is all. Very very good.
Giving the Maquis their own style of pips seems like a huge mistake though.
But before I get too far ahead, the Maquis is like, what, a masonic lodge except to join you fight for the freedom and rights of all those displaced colonists from when they redrew the territorial lines between Bajoran and CARDASSIAN space, right?
Like a Maquis could be any species from any background?
Also, my phone automatically capitalizes CARDASSIAN because I have only written HUMBLE CARDASSIAN TAILOR like a dozen times into this very thread and I refuse to fix it.
I wanted to muse again about Janeway's decisions in the first episode.
She clearly chose the possible (absolutely not guaranteed), but possible well being of an alien species that is seventy five light years from her home over her own crew.
Or to think of it another way, she could have absolutely garrisoned The Array, learned its' secrets, launched her crew home and allowed the Kazon full run of The Array - more than likely leading to the slavery, or at least subjugation, of the Ocampa. Instead, she blows up The Array.
What I want to know is this, do you think every Starfleet officer who's taken an oath of the Prime Directive, knows implicitly or explicitly, that their lives are forfeit if dying would give even an opportunity to an alien race to survive?
And if you think that, how the hell would those same officers agree to bring their own fucking families onto the Enterprise?
TNG / DS9 Spoiler
One of the things I noticed about DS9 in retrospect is how many times Sisko just evacuated the entire station. He was willing to pull the trigger on getting everyone out of the goddamn area everytime something insane was going to happen. Picard hauled his entire crew and like, a lot of families, into every anomaly he could find without a second thought.
If TNG had a cut away to a mother hauling her kids under her arms every time a Red Alert was sounded it would have been a much better and meaningful show.
I wanted to muse again about Janeway's decisions in the first episode.
She clearly chose the possible (absolutely not guaranteed), but possible well being of an alien species that is seventy five light years from her home over her own crew.
Or to think of it another way, she could have absolutely garrisoned The Array, learned its' secrets, launched her crew home and allowed the Kazon full run of The Array - more than likely leading to the slavery, or at least subjugation, of the Ocampa. Instead, she blows up The Array.
What I want to know is this, do you think every Starfleet officer who's taken an oath of the Prime Directive, knows implicitly or explicitly, that their lives are forfeit if dying would give even an opportunity to an alien race to survive?
And if you think that, how the hell would those same officers agree to bring their own fucking families onto the Enterprise?
TNG / DS9 Spoiler
One of the things I noticed about DS9 in retrospect is how many times Sisko just evacuated the entire station. He was willing to pull the trigger on getting everyone out of the goddamn area everytime something insane was going to happen. Picard hauled his entire crew and like, a lot of families, into every anomaly he could find without a second thought.
If TNG had a cut away to a mother hauling her kids under her arms every time a Red Alert was sounded it would have been a much better and meaningful show.
I recall a Voyager episode where the crew was afflicted with a disease and had to land on an inhabited planet but the planet had a small defense force. Janeway could have destroyed their wiener ships with ease but instead chose to keep looking for another planet, dooming the crew.
DS9 having way more scenes where characters are just doing or chatting about random stuff on the station is it's best strength.
Like I think Garak would become an imminently boring character if he didn't get so much time to chat with Julian and instead was just the cardassian side character whipped out for plot reasons.
Want to say you had some of this with the other series, but IMO they never did it enough. DS9 constantly had it happening and it did make the series feel more organic. Hell, putting aside all the issues that beset Voyager's production, that is probably a series that would have heavily benefit from more of that sort of thing. You're a group of survivors from two different crews, stuck out in a sector decades away from your home and you aren't able to communicate with them. What the fuck are you going to do when you're off duty? I seriously doubt anyone is going to be keen on sitting in their quarters staring at the wall during down time and I also doubt the entire crew is made of people so introverted, that they would be content being by themselves reading the vast amount of reading material that Voyager likely has access to, watching the entertain programs or playing videogames.
I don't think Janeway is a psychopath; that's mostly a memey internet thing. She's just inconsistently written, sometimes in funny ways, but is mostly just bland.
is janeway holding you hostage? blink twice.
I dunno if we can be this direct. It seems like any response might set him up for a "transporter accident" in the very near future.
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I started watching Voyager as a background show while I play STO and god damn is this show full of technobabble. Its insane. It started getting bad towards the end of TNG, but its hit warp speed on Voyager.
I remember really disliking Neelix, but so far aside from his gross possessiveness of Kes he's actually pretty great.
The Doctor is top tier though, little dude isnt taking shit from anybody.
Other than being annoying, more streaming services isn't NECESSARILY a problem, except it dilutes how much I'm willing to pay. Old school Netflix/prime/whatever with a TON of programming? Sure, $8-15/mo is more than fair. 10 services each at $5-10, often with just a few programs I want to watch? The heck with that.
And fully expect this to continue not just Paramount but Disney it launches more and more countries.
Disney shit has been slowly disappearing from Netflix up here for the past few years as the contracts finally run out. I think the last of it is finally gone as of a few months ago.
And fully expect this to continue not just Paramount but Disney it launches more and more countries.
Disney shit has been slowly disappearing from Netflix up here for the past few years as the contracts finally run out. I think the last of it is finally gone as of a few months ago.
This is the streaming future baby!
I'm not actually convinced of that, but we'll see. I suspect what will be the future is content channels feeding into the bigger streaming platforms, a la Paramount+ into Prime or Showtime into Hulu or whatever where you have the base service and then activate premium channels at large... Kind of a more customizable cable platform. I don't know that this is GOOD, but I don't know that the single studio stuff can really keep enough interest. My understanding Disney, which has some MASSIVE tentpoles is struggling with D+.
And fully expect this to continue not just Paramount but Disney it launches more and more countries.
Disney shit has been slowly disappearing from Netflix up here for the past few years as the contracts finally run out. I think the last of it is finally gone as of a few months ago.
This is the streaming future baby!
I'm not actually convinced of that, but we'll see. I suspect what will be the future is content channels feeding into the bigger streaming platforms, a la Paramount+ into Prime or Showtime into Hulu or whatever where you have the base service and then activate premium channels at large... Kind of a more customizable cable platform. I don't know that this is GOOD, but I don't know that the single studio stuff can really keep enough interest. My understanding Disney, which has some MASSIVE tentpoles is struggling with D+.
D+ has made a shit ton of money in the last year.
I hear a lot due to my partners work which involves them.
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It's getting into actual science, but kinetic energy is still energy. If a drone can generate a shield strong enough to block it, I'd have expected them to adapt to kinetic energy at some point over the presumably hundred of years of being hit with things. Energy weapons can be handwaved by finding the right frequency to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow or something, but physical impacts are going to need either just stronger shields, or actual physical armor. It's not something that adjusting a frequency is going to be able to stop.
For arming everyone with melee weapons you can counter that drones are hella strong and can probably just overpower humans and the like, but Klingons and Vulcans could probably slice them up good.
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My group investigated an Orion freighter a lot, found a borg power relay in amongst deuterium. Then, while neutrino radiation bombarded them, got diplomatic permission to board the orion freeport and disarm the ferengi coin mining operation.
Fun session with the group all identifying their various relations to starfleet ethics. Even if we missed our Ferengi science officer and bajoran medical head.
Borgified Gorn are pretty scary in STO.
"This doesn't look like my arm... it's in the right place, but I remember my arm being less gunny."
Unfortunately, they don't show up very often in game.
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
STO is a one stop shop if you've ever asked, "What would that look like assimilated?" The answer is usually terrifying.
For those that don't play STO, that second picture is an assimilated Iconian.
Bad times...
Watched Insurrection tonight and its not as bad as I remembered? Well, not remembered since I forget the entire movie after each viewing (I think this was the third).
I have no idea why Shinzon or then Remans want to wipe out Earth though. They make an offhand comment about being slaves to nobody, but like the Federation isnt trying to enslave them and would probably leave them alone if thats what they wanted?
And there was more Troi mind rape... But I think it was part of a masturbation scene for Shinzon? The whole thing was weird.
I think I know why Picard isnt an Admiral though, he keeps breaking his ships. Sure the Enterprise-D had a good run before it was destroyed, but on his first outing in the E Picard tries to use the self destruct feature. And then does so again when fighting Shinzon only to have it fail so he rams into Shinzon's vessel instead. At least Janeway brought her ship back intact.
At least when she was in the Delta Quadrant, the body count was a bunch of people the Federation didn't know.
(And First Contact wasn't the E's first outing, they said they'd been out there for a year already. A competent review of the mission reports from that would be more inclined to punish him for not blowing the ship up the moment he knew the Borg were on board.)
Picard et. al. get away with their bullshit because they usually save the entire Federation and/or galactic civilization in extremely public fashion.
I swear he was offered a promotion to Admiral at one point as well for a position at the Academy which he seriously considered. Season 1 and I want to say it was in Conspiracy as part of the whole bug thing. I can find reference to him being offered the position during the year the first season takes place, but can't figure out the episode without rewatching I guess. I would normally jump at this but just can't.
That exchange is one of the reason it is a bit heart breaking that Star Trek Academy and Picard are contemporaries as Picard would have been a great character for that show as a recurring guest in charge of it all. It has also led to my fan theory that they don't offer him another admiral position because last time they did it wiped out a bunch of senior officers. That might also explain why there are so many shitty admirals in the immediate years afterwards too come to think of it.
For whatever reason I thought they were completing/had just completed their shakedown run at the beginning of First Contact, but now that you mention it maybe they were complaining about being relegated to the Neutral Zone so long after shakedown.
It is very good and it's taken the crown from TNG as my favorite Trek.
Some general thoughts. Spoilers for the other people working through the series.
1. Everything felt so much more alive and lived in than TNG. So many great recurring side characters. Just the multiple background actors on the promenade made everything feel like a real world.
2. The Seventh Season felt rushed. I liked the symmetry between the Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths, but the seeds here should have been planted six seasons prior. I also liked the idea of the Kai becoming increasingly jealous of Sisko (she's had no visions or prophecies. She's running Bajor but Sisko gets all the love and celebrations) and it would have been cool of she has a vision and it turned out to be the Pah-Wraiths manipulating her. As mentioned elsewhere, making Gul Dukat the vessel was lame as hell.
2a. The Dominion War and conclusion also got shorted. Introducing the Breen should have been a huge moment, but I was just like "Who the hell are these guys? Oh just another convenient ally so the Dominion continues to threaten everyone."
3. I wanted more Romulans! They get in the war but they don't get a major character. We've got Martok and the one not evil Admiral, where's the Romulans in those three way zoom calls?
4. Kiras arc from terrorist to begrudging Bajoran officer to using her same skills to fight for CARDASSIAN freedom while wearing a Starfleet uniform was great!!!
5. Ezri and Julian seemed to be because no one knew what to do with either of those characters.
I really liked it. On to Voyager to find out why Janeway is a psychopath.
Like I think Garak would become an imminently boring character if he didn't get so much time to chat with Julian and instead was just the cardassian side character whipped out for plot reasons.
is janeway holding you hostage? blink twice.
Whatever you do, don't follow the impulse to splash scalding hot coffee in her face and use the moment of shock to escape.
It won't slow her down, and she'll be really pissed about the wasted coffee.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I dunno if we can be this direct. It seems like any response might set him up for a "transporter accident" in the very near future.
Seems pretty decent of her so far.
Second Episode immediately leaping into the problems of food shortage, Maquis integration into the crew, and the Doctor questioning his own self is all. Very very good.
Giving the Maquis their own style of pips seems like a huge mistake though.
But before I get too far ahead, the Maquis is like, what, a masonic lodge except to join you fight for the freedom and rights of all those displaced colonists from when they redrew the territorial lines between Bajoran and CARDASSIAN space, right?
Like a Maquis could be any species from any background?
Also, my phone automatically capitalizes CARDASSIAN because I have only written HUMBLE CARDASSIAN TAILOR like a dozen times into this very thread and I refuse to fix it.
She clearly chose the possible (absolutely not guaranteed), but possible well being of an alien species that is seventy five light years from her home over her own crew.
Or to think of it another way, she could have absolutely garrisoned The Array, learned its' secrets, launched her crew home and allowed the Kazon full run of The Array - more than likely leading to the slavery, or at least subjugation, of the Ocampa. Instead, she blows up The Array.
What I want to know is this, do you think every Starfleet officer who's taken an oath of the Prime Directive, knows implicitly or explicitly, that their lives are forfeit if dying would give even an opportunity to an alien race to survive?
And if you think that, how the hell would those same officers agree to bring their own fucking families onto the Enterprise?
TNG / DS9 Spoiler
If TNG had a cut away to a mother hauling her kids under her arms every time a Red Alert was sounded it would have been a much better and meaningful show.
I recall a Voyager episode where the crew was afflicted with a disease and had to land on an inhabited planet but the planet had a small defense force. Janeway could have destroyed their wiener ships with ease but instead chose to keep looking for another planet, dooming the crew.
Want to say you had some of this with the other series, but IMO they never did it enough. DS9 constantly had it happening and it did make the series feel more organic. Hell, putting aside all the issues that beset Voyager's production, that is probably a series that would have heavily benefit from more of that sort of thing. You're a group of survivors from two different crews, stuck out in a sector decades away from your home and you aren't able to communicate with them. What the fuck are you going to do when you're off duty? I seriously doubt anyone is going to be keen on sitting in their quarters staring at the wall during down time and I also doubt the entire crew is made of people so introverted, that they would be content being by themselves reading the vast amount of reading material that Voyager likely has access to, watching the entertain programs or playing videogames.
William T Jacobkosh or Geebkosh?
I remember really disliking Neelix, but so far aside from his gross possessiveness of Kes he's actually pretty great.
The Doctor is top tier though, little dude isnt taking shit from anybody.
Paramount are dedicated to helping TV piracy, I see.
Probably the same.
And fully expect this to continue not just Paramount but Disney it launches more and more countries.
Disney shit has been slowly disappearing from Netflix up here for the past few years as the contracts finally run out. I think the last of it is finally gone as of a few months ago.
This is the streaming future baby!
I'm not actually convinced of that, but we'll see. I suspect what will be the future is content channels feeding into the bigger streaming platforms, a la Paramount+ into Prime or Showtime into Hulu or whatever where you have the base service and then activate premium channels at large... Kind of a more customizable cable platform. I don't know that this is GOOD, but I don't know that the single studio stuff can really keep enough interest. My understanding Disney, which has some MASSIVE tentpoles is struggling with D+.
D+ has made a shit ton of money in the last year.
I hear a lot due to my partners work which involves them.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/disney-plus-statistics/