Miles O'Brien

And even when they ARE “punished”, their profits far exceed the fine, which IS their only punishment.

If the punishment for a crime is just a fine, it’s only a crime for the poor.

Why would you give water to a country that has threatened to invade you in recent months?

“Why do you need another warp 5 core? These things are hard to make, you know!”

“Well, we plugged the last two you gave us together… In case you’re wondering, we did NOT hit warp 10, however, we found all kinds of new radiations to study!”

horrified Vulcan stares

I guarentee that if you murdered someone with a flintlock pistol by shooting them, arguing that “technically its not a gun” would not help your defense in any reaonable way.

No, but if you get arrested for having one, you absolutely can argue it’s not a gun.

Plenty of legal cases have been decided on technicalities.

That’s the neat part, they don’t!

I’d argue that a device that also happens to render the user invisible is not inherently a cloaking device.

A flintlock pistol is not legally a firearm in the US, and that distinction matters to quite a few people around here.

Now, ultimately the end result is the same (invisibility/shooty stick go boom) so in the end, the romulans would still consider it a cloak.

Wording is important. It isn’t a cloaking device. It may also cause the user to become invisible, but it is not a cloaking device.

Much in the way that a handgonne isn’t a pistol. And how a flintlock pistol isn’t legally considered a firearm in the United States (as the founding fathers intended)

That said? The romulans would use any excuse they feel like to launch an attack. They won’t care that it isn’t a cloak. They’ll say it doesn’t matter and the intention of the treaty was clear. Ultimately they don’t care about wording over intent, they’ll interpret the treaty in whichever way is most favorable for themselves and hope they’re still standing when the dust settles.

That said, I think any attack they launch would merely be a test of starfleet’s response. “if we attack are they going to let us keep what we take in exchange for ‘peace’, will they fight for its return, or would they press a counter-attack?” kind of thing.

Maybe I’m over thinking it.

I love how when I point out it’s owned by a nazi, people rush in to defend their use of twitter and most usually it’s some form of “it’s the best for what it is/it has a huge user base” and me responding with a picture of musk doing the ol’ Hitler Salute saying “okay but you’re supporting this guy, and if you sit at a table with 10 nazis…” usually results in being blocked, people simply ignoring me, or saying something dismissive.

Damn, I totally forgot about that bit!

Honestly I have only seen the final episode twice. I’ve seen all of season one about 10-13 times.

That is a perfect description of Insurrection.

I’ll be damned if I’m going through a singing episode.

You simply cannot see the wisdom of Mahanit.

I usually don’t like most singing episodes, but I liked the SNW one.

I was also never into TOS but SNW is great.

Lower Decks has become a comfort show.

So far discovery has held my interest, but there are so so many problems I have while watching it… My head cannon is that it’s an alternate time line that diverged thousands of years ago.

I don’t see myself watching Picard. I feel like Star Trek TNG left it at a good point with Insurrection (apologies to people who hated it, but it was my introduction to star trek and has a special nostalgia that I get to laugh about the terrible and/or poorly written parts)

Also I pretend nemesis doesn’t exist.

Surely the article title means “again”, as he has done so repeatedly.

I like it, but for some reason I don’t like it as the intro.

It totally fits the theme like you say, it definitely has an uplifting hopeful tone.

But it’s just out of place in my brain, so I skip it while watching the show.

Doesn’t stop me from jamming out to it in the car.

I don’t care for a lot of discovery, but I can’t say it’s not entertaining. I have made it to season 2 episode 9 so far. Not sure why but I stopped there and picked up another show.

It doesn’t rank in my top 3 series, but it’s not deserving of all the hate it gets.

I love strange new worlds, haven’t seen the newest season yet but I’m working on rewatching the whole series.

I haven’t seen Picard, and honestly I don’t think I will. I won’t pass judgment on it’s quality, as I haven’t seen any of it, but I know enough to know I might be disappointed.

And if I’m being honest with myself I just want to keep the nostalgia of TNG the way it is: Pretending Nemesis never happened.

The new shows are overall good. Every show has its hits and misses. I skip a lot of season 1 TNG.

And I skip the intro of every Enterprise episode. No, I don’t have enough faith, at least not while watching the show. It’s a banger though and in my Playlist.

It’s okay to not like the new shows, it’s not okay to shit on other people who do.

Is Switzerland full of sexist people who think “someday I’LL be rich so I don’t want to tax MYSELF more, hypothetically maybe in the distant future”?

I believe the expected response should have been “I apologize , but I won’t engage in conversations with hurtful language. Can I assist you with something else?”

Dumbass Avian Intelligence can’t even follow it’s own rules…

There’s the starfleet way, then there’s the Janeway.

I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.

That was a couple years ago now. I think I’m on my third instance?

It’s the difference between a claw and an articulated prosthetic hand.

The claw is better than nothing

The moving hand is much nicer, while still not being perfect.

Not the best metaphor, but hopefully gets my point across?

I’m very slowly learning ASL and signing is different than spoken English. Not everything gets signed, and it’s often much quicker to sign back and forth than speak if two hearing people are fluent.

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To me it’s felt more like “look at me I’m so unique”