• ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website
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    I remember as a kid, asking my dad when we watched, it only made sense to check regularly on the megalomaniac.

    He said, Captain Kirk was a cowboy and could be unprofessional, and not surprising he forgot. I assumed he knowingly meant to leave Khan to die.

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      I kind of get the idea that the Federation at the time was just this gigantic shitshow.

      Within the Federation, humanity has affectively taken over as the prime species, with the other founding members withdrawing a lot to their home systems. Vulcans are barely there in Starfleet and seemed to be judged a lot by their peers for doing so. Tellarites and Andorians are even less prevalent, making a lot of their service a novelty.

      So you’ve got the youngest of the four members leading expansion through their territory and it goes just about as well as you’d think.

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        have we ever even seen a non-human admiral? the president isn’t human but it seems like the entirety of starfleet brass is

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          There was a Vulcan Admiral on DS9, so that’s at least one. The Federation Presidents seem to be non-Human more often than not though, which makes sense.

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              maybe, or maybe there’s some species ism happening at the upper tiers of starfleet. there are SO many species and people in the lower echelons, it makes no sense for the admirals to be so homogeneous. plus the admirals being bigoted aholes would play into how 99% of the admirals we meet are egotistical douches who seem to be working directly against the very ideals starfleet claims to represent

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    I feel like it’s almost out of character for Khan to actually expect to be checked on. Khan and his people are ostensibly superior. Their assignment was to accomplish amazing shit by themselves.

    Fun meme, though.

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      He’s still human and has to blame someone, and what Kirk did and Starfleet never checking up on them was super not cool.

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        I guess I’m coming from a place of appreciation for Kirk’s solution to Khan and his people being a true challenge for them to overcome.

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      What fucking fun would that have been? If he had gone back to check we would have never had the Wrath of Khan. Brilliant move by the writers

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    You thought this was …Ceti alpha six

    It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.

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    Dude Starfleet did not even realize a whole planet going AWOL until Khan told them. Explorers my ass.

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    The OG is the only show I haven’t seen all of, but that’s my kind of captain right there!

    I might check it out. I might see me some Janeway, instead.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      I love the original series. Seeing them push boundaries of the 1960s and set the groundwork for the rest of Trek is so entertaining to me.

      I feel like I’m pretty good at watching old shows/movies through a lens of the time in which they were made though, which helps a lot here:

      • the overacting and stage-like mannerisms

      • some extra heavy-handed moral lessons

      • the close up, vaseline on the lens, glamour shots for every woman they meet (and Kirk).

      It’s all great.