Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
O7-E7-T7: 21-crew salute.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
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- USA
That's pretty good. I also have the headcanon that all the cycles of rises and falls of civilizations in the Star Trek universe is at partially at the whims of higher powers like Q. There's just too many exponential or star-killing threats not to have outright burned out quadrants (think Biophage or Borg) given millennia to work with, that some sort of divine intervention is probably going on.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
If we're thinking excessive paranoia and getting burned, I have another hypothesis for the choice of a civilian ship to bring the ambassador: If the "first contact package" turns out to be a cyberwar package or a basilisk, a turned civilian ship is both less of a threat and not as much of a loss. That'd imply very bad things about the other civs the Commonwealth has been meeting, though.
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- Central Standard Time
Well ... Each crew unit is actually about 50 people.
Thus, it'd be a 1050 spacer salute.
Who would be dicks enough to...
Who besides the Dominion would be dicks enough to do that?
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- Patriarchova
This is TBG. Lesbians only.
- Location
- Nova Scotia, Canada
Borg, Breen, Ferengi if they knew how.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
She went out saving lives and kicking ass. Rest well old girl.
;_;7
Eh, even if you go with that this assumes a pretty equal tech rate between all the current major players which seems pretty unlikely to me. And I am not sure if I agree with this "Federation" is special idea considering most nations seem to have little problem with attaining (or keeping up to) a similar skill level.
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- madison
My two cents on the commonwealth contact was a 3 frigate squadron encountered an alien dreadnaught while exploring beyond their borders. The commander decided that today was not in fact a good day to die and broke off. When he realized that the alien dreadnaught followed them he called a second squadron, since 3 frigates against a capital ship might win, but not without losses. I'm not sure when if at any point the first contact package was decoded, it's possible that the frigates lacked the computer power to do so if they are particularly combat focused. It's also possible they use a different communication method so they were not sure what the hell this weird energy they were being bombarded with was supposed to do.
Once the Courageous dropped it's shields (living up to it's name I must say, that was a ballsy move.) they realized that this was a somewhat pushy attempt to establish relations rather than an act of aggression. So the commander passed this up the chain because it was now way above his paygrade, and the nearest diplomat was rushed to the scene by the fastest warp engine close enough to commandeer.
Once the Courageous dropped it's shields (living up to it's name I must say, that was a ballsy move.) they realized that this was a somewhat pushy attempt to establish relations rather than an act of aggression. So the commander passed this up the chain because it was now way above his paygrade, and the nearest diplomat was rushed to the scene by the fastest warp engine close enough to commandeer.
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- They/Them
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- Australia
Yeah, there are gay people out there.
You guys just don't write omakes about them
You guys just don't write omakes about them
Yeah, there are gay people out there.
You guys just don't write omakes about them
I usually leave the sexuality of characters open until it become relevant or makes an interesting detail.
For instance, I have no idea what form Q takes when Q and Thuir go out on dates. (Possibly he only refers to Q in with the feminine pronoun when talking to Mbeki because that's the Q-form Mbeki is familiar with.)
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- Mid-Atlantic
The Federation doesn't have to have a huge advantage here, just enough that they can successfully break through scientific barriers that dominant imperial species would usually take longer to crack. That could easily just be a function of diverse outlook and of Starfleet collecting scientific data from the weirdest corners of space we can find, places other species sensibly avoid.
And it wouldn't necessarily translate into technological as opposed to scientific advantages either, because any such discovery could be learned by others and translated into practical engineering on their part. It's like, Newtonian physics was hugely important, but England didn't derive any special benefits from being the place where the guy who discovered it came from, because he lived in a continent-wide open society when it came to transmitting information, his discoveries were not secrets, and so other nations rapidly learned everything Newton knew about physics.
More generally... Basically, IF you think of "everyone is at roughly the same level of technology despite rapid technological progress" as a thing that needs an explanation, you have to at least try to explain it. If you come up with a better explanation than mine, I'd be interested to hear it. To be clear, mine goes:
1) Roughly a thousand years ago was a transformative interstellar invasion.
2) During this invasion, the older races were bombed back to a point where they lost everything beyond 'basic warp' level and have taken a thousand years to rebuild, thus explaining why their technology has stagnated.
3) Most of the 'new' rising species of the modern era are the ones that were all more or less simultaneously in their equivalent of the High Middle Ages at the time of the H'urq conquest. Species a few thousand years further back the timeline in their development still haven't developed warp travel, while species much further advanced than that were themselves targeted by the H'urq, at least for some form of exploitation of planetary resources.
"Interstellar" doesn't carry the same connotations as "Galactic" or "Global," because it doesn't imply universality, just bigness. Like, "more than one star." Maybe they had a series of wars between the homeworld and its colonies, and eventually the two sides united peacefully into an "Interstellar Union?" They're aware that there are plenty of aliens out there who aren't part of their 'union,' but it doesn't make their government non-interstellar.
A tall blonde in a Starfleet jacket, with rather faded-looking blue eyes, shuffles her foot. "Aww... thanks..."
[blushes, steps a little aside awkwardly, humming to herself]
"...I did NOT blow up that moon! It blew down. Right on top of me. So there. Hmph!"
Enterprise:
"Honestly I just visit once in a while? Getting that guest pass was, um, kind of a complicated thing."
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- Illinois
"It involved two Klingons, a Betazoid black ops team, and Spock's nephew. Oh, and about forty photon torpedoes -- thirty-nine of which were duds."
"Betazoids don't have black ops teams."
"Betazoids don't have black ops teams yet."
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- Mid-Atlantic
Enterprise:
"...Okay not that complicated. Weirder, but not as complicated."
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- Australia
Maybe I'm just in a weird headspace atm, but "Betazoid Black Ops" sounds like a party game a Betazoid tourist brought back that they learned on Risa.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
I think you're reading it as "Betazoid Black Outs"?
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
No, they just have the Nixa family, and that captain from the Licori encounter.
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- Australia
"Step one to forming a black ops team, the gentlemen place the hover car keys into the bowl"I think you're reading it as "Betazoid Black Outs"?
Night
Widow Null
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- Hoff
See that doesn't work because Lwaxana knows what the numbers mean.
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
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- Trumpistan
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- He/Him
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
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- North American Plaguelands
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- She/Her