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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You could be right, after a recent rewatch it did seem to devil may-care on ship.

[–] AEsheron 6 points 1 year ago

Humanity are the mad scientists of the setting. Sad I couldn't find the thread alone, this half assed article will have to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps suggesting humans are the most adventurous/likely of the species in the federation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did he also "conveniently" forget to report to star fleet about it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That’s what I assumed as a kid.

[–] hOUse_atomics 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Son_of_dad 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] hOUse_atomics 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] kaitco 13 points 1 year ago

Surely this won’t come back to bite them all in the ass, right?

…right?

[–] ummthatguy 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone have the blank for this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just looked and can't find it. It's pretty good though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You thought this was ....Ceti alpha six....

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] lolrightythen 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] littlewonder 5 points 1 year ago

It's pure camp and I love it.

[–] Apollonius_Cone 3 points 1 year ago