I'd imagine they'd drop all the non-combatants off before rushing into a suicidal battle. Well, at least the Captain of Siskos ship didn't bother to drop the non-combatants off. Must have been a quite self-confident guy! :? :DITL: Good Lord, speaking of bothering: Is there nobody here feeling respo...

That's the size of it. Every ship in range was recalled to deal with the threat, and I'd hope that there wouldn't be a captain in Starfleet who would say, "Maybe we shouldn't go try to help save Earth - we're only an Oberth-class, after all." Yeah, but I also hope the Oberth's captain wou...

Well, I am working on my (utterly worthless) Bachelor of Education. Should have it next winter or spring. So, I am (technically) a teacher soon. But as it is unlikely for me to find a job within the next 10 years or so, I will have to look for something else...

Teaos wrote:

I think Roddenberry got it right

That statement isnt said very often.

Perhaps it should be...

I suppose you got wind of my attitude by now...

Agreed. I liked the concept, but the implementation was absolutely absurd. Make it more realistic, and actually include human nature in it, then you got a true representation of a positive future. Well, we can't say what human nature is today and we certainly can't tell what it will be in 2363 and ...

Deepcrush wrote:Remember that the TOS movies (STII-STVI) had their own uniforms that were without department colors. They even looked like real uniforms!

They had department colors. Quite a few!

From that same episode, Picard waking up after his tryst with his classmate... and finding Q in bed with him. The episode as a whole is a big winner, according to me! It has humor ("Is there a John-Luck - Pickerd here?") and depth! And it brings the best out of Patrick Stewart and John De...

It would also be highly unpractical, if everybody would enter verbal commands only. I mean, besides the noice level it would create, the computer is confused enough!

Rochey wrote:Because Roddenberry was highly anti-military, and didn't want his series to have anything militaristic about it.

Don't you think, that this was part of Star Trek's success? I mean that it was the one sci-fi series with an optimistic view about the future? I do! (I know : )

I wonder WHY they switched department colors. Why switch Operations from red to gold, and Command from gold to red. Never could understand the motivation behind that. I'd imagine it confused alot of people for a while. I don't think so. I mean, they had an awful lot of uniform designs and colors in...

One thing that puzzeled me. Remember the episose where Picard and compnay are returning in the Runabout, and find Enterrpsie in ANOTHER temporal loop with the Romulans? That Romulan officer jumped to man the conn station awfully quick, and everybody whoever came to Enterprise was awfully familiar w...

I still do not see what's left to do for the redshirts, but I am after all only an unenlightened guy from "old europe".

Yeah, so it's still the difference between "and eye for an eye" and "offer the other cheek" (I don't know the latter bible phrase in English! )

Deepcrush wrote:Anything french has a 99% chance of being a bad thing.

Oh well, this is way too harsh! The french have brought us the croissant, baguette, wine, champagne,...Carla Bruni..

Well, it is a predicament if the enemy would eventually hurt himself while attacking or a prolonged attack might inflict serious damage to your ship. No problem in the vicinity of Starbases but alone in the Delta quadrant...