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So the first several months of the Arsharra N'Gir administration actually involved political purges of every jerk in Caitian politics.
One jerk to rule them all
One jerk to find them
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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One jerk to rule them all
One jerk to find them
Theunderbolt
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"One jerk to bring them all, and in the fur bind them."
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
...Is this a representative sample of Caitian politics? If so, someone remind me again how their government looked like it was ready to join the Federation? This shit isn't just unpleasant, it's nonfunctional.
It all sounds very dramatic with the 'villain speech' and such, but when you look at what actually happened it was an act of petty office sabotage by a jerk who claims that 'everyone does this'.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I'd normally agree with you, but an isolated event shouldn't have been enough to give us president catlady. That's why I'm asking if their entire government is like this. I mean, I'm perfectly willing to believe that N'Gir is just incredibly vulnerable psychologically and all it took was one little push, but that's not much better!
I still say that N'Gir is a perfectly fine politician and I don't know why players have built her up to be somehow abnormal or bad. So I don't know what you mean by "give us president catlady". What about her requires her to have been 'pushed' into being something?
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I'm not going to bring that argument back up again. Suffice to say that I believe that she has demonstrated the same petty, selfish behavior that we see in this omake, just with enough brain behind it to avoid resorting to overt sabotage.
I think that you're right that she's about right for an IRL American politician. I don't think that that's an acceptable standard to hold the President of the Federation to, and we have multiple examples of Federation politicians that are not shitheads.
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It's the idealism.
Star Trek presumes the best in sophonts in general, so having N'Gir act in this manner is startling. Also, if this is 'perfectly fine' for a politician your politicians suck.
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That, or you'd get overreactions from the "I didn't kill sixteen hypercorp security commandos with a rusty butter knife to put up with this shit!" crowd.
The revolutionaries someone like Sierre would preferentially choose for her staff in Federation politics would be fromt he crowd you describe, not the crowd I describe.
I figure she just grew up in an environment that normalized a high level of verbal aggression, and where a certain amount of petty interpersonal betrayal from assholes in the organization was expected.
Her primary leader/mentor in her early political career was a guy who, we are explicitly told, uses verbal aggression to keep people off balance and compliant. This is totally consistent with the tactics we see N'Gir using on Sousa and Sulu, and if anything N'Gir is being a lot more polite about it.
She thinks of our actions as "playing politics" when they're not? Well, in her early political career she had a number of rivals who would randomly harass her in ways that acted contrary to the goals of the organization, as a form of hazing. Now she's in a new organization with new goals, and she's unsurprised to see what she interprets as evidence of some of the old members of the organization harassing her.
In her frame of reference, it's "same shit, different day" with a side order of learned defensiveness and counterproductive management tactics.
I honestly don't think N'Gir has a lot of defects except for being (1) abrasive with subordinates and (2) prone to suspect 'old guard' subordinates and peers within the political system of sabotaging her when that is not their motivation.
Those are not massive issues, they're just traits. And we have, lo and behold, seen an omake in which we see a younger N'Gir getting opportunities to learn (1) that being abrasive with subordinates works, and (2) that 'old guard' subordinates and peers within her political system may sabotage her, even if that hurts the organization.
Makes perfect sense to me. I don't have to loathe N'Gir to think it's interesting and worthwhile to examine how her background made her the woman she is.
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Leslie:
"The trick to managing a bunch of Tellarites is to switch really, really fast between complimenting the stuff they actually did a good job on, and giving them ludicrous excessive bullshit about they only did a decent-ish job on. Eventually the dauntless little bastards learn to take positive feedback- usually faster than a bunch of Earthlings would learn to take negative feedback."
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I will chime in and say that having mostly just read the updates, when I started following the discussion I was really, really surprised at the level of hate for cat president. She just seemed like someone who had different priorities from Starfleet and was a little blunt about it. Like, not even antagonistic to Starfleet, just not super in love with it like the expansionists were.
Analysis - TOS Episode Discussion - Briefvoice
TOS Episode Reviews: Season One
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So what am I hoping to do here? I thought it would be interesting to do a read-through of episode summaries for TOS and look at elements in terms of how they fit into the "To Boldly Go" universe. Part of it is to look for any serious contradictions that would prevent bringing material from that episode into the game, and part of it is to look for neat TOS material or inspiration that isn't being used and that might be interesting to see pop up in TBG. To make this manageable, I'm doing it in chunks of one season at a time.
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TOS Season 1 Review Summary:
- The only really problematic episode in terms of "Where did this alien race disappear to?" are the warring planets in episode 1.23, "A Taste of Armageddon", the First Federation in Episode 1.2 "The Corbomite Maneuver", and the Gorn in Episode 1.19 "Arena". The only ones I'm particularly interested in seeing again in a TBG context are the Gorn, who let's face it are cool dinosaur men. I offer a few explanations in the episode discussions.
- There's also the weird duplicate of Earth in "Miri", to which I offer a couple of potential explanations.
- TOS seems to have way more starbases than we did at game start, but you could explain that if what we call a "starbase" is a relatively new installation type, and what they're calling starbases in TOS are what we would call Outposts currently, having been downgraded in status.
- We ought to have more arrogant fools and well-meaning screw-ups. "Kirk has to restrain/teach a lesson to an over-eager subordinate or official" was a plot used quite a lot.
- There are enough godlike aliens around to form a society of their own, a higher level of galactic politics beyond the Federation's technology level.
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Season 1.1: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Where No Man Has Gone Before (episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise goes beyond the edge of the galaxy seeking the Valiant, a long-lost Earth ship. Gary Mitchell develops godlike psychic powers and goes power mad, eventually having to be killed.
TBG Discussion: The "edge of the galaxy" is not a problem if you assume it's actually departing the galactic plane rather than the rim, and the barrier they ran into is a localized phenomenon. Note the empty world where Gary Mitchel is to be stranded is 'Delta Vega', which in TBG is a Vulcan major world with its own Council seat... perhaps another world in the same star system?
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Season 1.2: The Corbomite Maneuverhttp://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Corbomite_Maneuver_(episode
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Corbomite_Maneuver_(episode)http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0010.html
Planet of Hats
Summary: Lt. Dave Bailey is an over-eager boob who can't follow orders. Also, the Enterprise is nearly destroyed by a ship captained by Balok from the First Federation before Kirk bluffs his way out and they are able to achieve peaceful contact.
TBG Discussion: So where is the First Federation in TBG? Balok engages in a lot of deception in the episode, so maybe that 'marker beacon' is not actually the edge of their territory and he's a long range explorer from much farther away, well beyond range of current Federation ships? Or they're behind the Klingons, another easy explanation. Also, Bailey is great and we should have more characters who are screw-ups.
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Season 1.3: Mudd's Women
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mudd's_Women_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: Skeevy trader Harry Mudd is in the mail order bride business. The Enterprise arrests him, then assists him in making a delivery.
TBG Discussion: Other than the appalling sexism it's fine. Mudd is a pretty good villain, petty and self-aggrandizing in a very hatable way.
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Season 1.4: The Enemy Within
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: A transporter accident splits Kirk into good and evil duplicates.
TBG Discussion: A little cheesy, but well within the scope of what the game can handle. It's a weird universe!
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Season 1.5: The Man Trap
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_Trap_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: A shape-shifting salt vampire kills people until McCoy phasers it.
TBG Discussion: No problems, but the characters squabble with each other a lot. We should have more arguing.
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Season 1.6: The Naked Time
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Naked_Time_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: A disease makes the crew go crazy. Oh, and a planet's destruction sends the Enterprise back in time 3 days.
TBG Discussion: We do plagues all the time! Also, here is where Spock started earning Research Points sufficient to crack time travel.
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Season 1.7: Charlie X
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie_X_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise finds a 14 year old with godlike powers. Eventually the Thasians, who gave him the powers, show up and forcefully take him home.
TBG Discussion: No real problems. I assume the Thasians used their space magic to make their world inaccessible to other Federation ships, and no one has an interest in fighting them on that.
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Season 1.8 Balance of Terror
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Balance_of_Terror_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a Romulan ship sent to destroy Federation outposts. Also, Lt. Stiles learns a valuable lesson about bigotry.
TBG Discussion: No issues. A foundational episode as regards the Romulans.
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Season 1.9: What are little girls made of?
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_Of?_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: Crazy scientist (or at least the android made from crazy scientist) tries to create android empire based on alien technology and ends up destroying himself.
TBG Discussion: Once again we see that one of the Enterprise's regular missions was resupplying remote scientific expeditions. No particular issues here. We can assume that Ruk, last of the original androids, held a lot of key knowledge of the technology. With him and android-Korby destroyed, it's no surprise that the android-creating technology couldn't be duplicated.
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Season 1.10: Dagger of the Mind
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dagger_of_the_Mind_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The director of a penal colony is, for reasons never explained, experimenting on patients with a neural neutralizer. The Enterprise stops him.
TBG Discussion: The existence of penal colonies is TBG canon- Eaton mentioned them once. Maybe there'll be a CL set there someday? Otherwise no particular issues.
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Season 1.11: Miri
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Miri_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth!!! which suffered a devastating plague in the 1960's when a virus created to prolong life turned into a plague that killed all the adults and slowed the aging of children until they reached adulthood and died. McCoy cures the virus.
TBG Discussion: An exact duplicate of Earth? What's up with that? Beta canon has two explanations. Either we ignore the 'exact duplicate of earth' part and it was an early human colony (that duplicated the 1960's culture for reasons of their own) or an actual parallel earth that slipped briefly into the Star Trek universe before falling back to its own universe decades later. I'm of the mind that the 'early human colony' explanation is less horrifying, because it allows the group of ancient-children the Enterprise encounters to have been the only group of their kind rather than an entire planet full of them. Perhaps one of the survivors will appear in TBG!
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Season 1.12: The Conscience of the King
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Conscience_of_the_King_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The infamous Kodos the Executioner, governor of Tarsus IV, once ordered the deaths of half the population. Now he is in hiding as Shakespearian actor Anton Karidian. Kirk is one of the only witnesses left who met him in person and could identify him, and the list is getting smaller all the time. Surprise, it was actually his daughter Lenore killing the witnesses.
TBG Discussion: There's a lot of little nitpicks you could make about this episode, but nothing that couldn't be rationalized away. Kodos changed his appearance and Kirk is recognizing his mannerisms, etc. All in all, I like the idea that humanity's bloody past isn't so far in the past.
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Season 1.13: The Galileo Seven
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Galileo_Seven_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The shuttle Galileo gets knocked of course and crash lands. The Enterprise must rescue the seven crew members in 48 hours, before they have to depart on a medical relief mission. Luckily, hostile natives kill enough crew members the shuttle can take off.
TBG Discussion: No real issues. Is it possible those 'natives' were descendants of stranded Yrillians who had lost their technology? They fit the general physical description.
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Season 1.14: Court Martial
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Court_Martial_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: Kirk is framed for killing Lt. Commander Finney by Finney himself, who is secretly still alive.
TBG Discussion: Nothing significant. Supposedly they stop at "Starbase 11", but in TBG it's actually Starbase the Roman Numeral 2!
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Season 1.15/1.16: The Menagerie Part I and II
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Menagerie,_Part_I_(episode)
Planet of Hats
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Menagerie,_Part_II_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: Spock hijacks the Enterprise to take his former commander Captain Pike back to Talos IV. Along the way he gets a court martial, during which time the Talosians present the pilot episode on a video screen. Pike is crippled with what is basically "locked-in syndrome", but the Talosians can allow him to live life in a telepathic illusion. Somehow everything works out, as the Commodore Mendez at the court martial was a telepathic illusion.
TBG Discussion: This is a pretty weird episode if you actually think about the plot. I'm going to lean on the idea that at the end of it we find out the Talosians were manipulating everyone as far away as the starbase, and no one got punished because Starfleet couldn't be sure how much of Spock or anyone's actions were due to telepathic influence. Presumably Talos IV is still there in TBG, sealed off as one of those "sufficiently powerful aliens, do not approach" worlds.
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Season 1.17: Shore Leave
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Shore_Leave_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The crew of the Enteprise take shore leave on an unexplored planet because why not. After a variety of bizarre encounters, a Caretaker appears who explains this planet is mean to be a playground where everyone's fantasies can come true. So the whole crew takes shore leave.
TBG Discussion: Probably one of those sufficiently godlike aliens running one of their games. I presume they rolled up the planet and left with it after the Enterprise departed. Though there is an TAS episode that returns here for more hijinx.
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Season 1.18: The Squire of Gothos
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Squire_of_Gothos_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: A godlike being toys with the Enterprise's crew and ends up hauled away by its parents.
TBG Discussion: No issues here, but it's another reminder that there's another whole level of beings at play in the galaxy to which the Federation is the same as the Federation is to a pre-warp society. Probably we don't hear about it as much because most people don't like to think about it.
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Season 1.19: Arena
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Arena_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: Dinosaur people, who turn out to be the Gorn, attack a Federation observation outpost. They actually fake a message from the outpost to draw the Enterprise in... something that shows a lot more calculation and understanding of the Federation than I had remembered. As the Enterprise pursues the Gorn ship, they run into territory of sufficiently advanced race the Metrons who elect to make the captains of the two ships fight a duel. Kirk chooses to spare the Gorn captain, and states intent to work out their differences peacefully.
TBG Discussion: Of all the one-off races in TOS, I see people discussing the Gorn most often. They're just kind of cool, dinosaur people who can be quite cunning. And as Simon_Jester once pointed out, the only aliens too tough for Kirk to take in a fistfight. I believe we've settled on the idea that Gorn territory may be "behind" the Klingons, but I'd sure like to see them show up again someday in the game. The Metrons not so much... they probably hid their system to prevent new visitors.
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Season 1.20: The Alternative Factor
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Alternative_Factor_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The entire galaxy (maybe the universe) 'blinks' like the power flickering on a monitor. A man called Lazarus apepars, a time traveler from the past pursuing the monster who destroyed his civilization. The 'monster' is another version of Lazarus from an anti-matter universe who wants to kill him and in the process maybe annihilate the entire universe. Kirk traps them both in a corridor between universes to fight for eternity.
TBG Discussion: One of the least memorable TOS episodes is curiously one of the most memorable in-universe. As the episode makes clear, the entire galaxy felt the 'blinks'. Every species the Federation meets is going to have this in their historical records as one of the great mysteries. Kind of neat, actually.
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Season 1.21: Tomorrow is Yesterday
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tomorrow_is_Yesterday_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1969 and has to find a way home without altering the past. Spock invents a method of time travel you can do with any ship with a warp drive. Not event a good warp drive... they do it at warp factor 3.
TBG Discussion: Just FYI, but Admiral Sulu personally knows how to time travel. The Bureau of Temporal Affairs probably has nightmares about that.
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Season 1.22: The Return of the Archons
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise beams down to a planet of human-like aliens who live in a static, mindlessly content society. The society is being run by a computer named Landru. 100 years ago Landru destroyed the starship Archon and forcefully absorbed many of the crew into its society. (The Enteprrise had been there to look for the Archon in the first place.) Kirk eventually talks the computer into destroying itself.
TBG Discussion: The main difficulty is the random planet of humans who are so human they even get called 'human' and absorbed the Archon's crew. My minor retcon... Beta III is actually a lost human colony who fell under the influence of an alien computer, Landru, shortly after settlement. Landru's original charges had long since died out, but it determined it had to continue its mission with the humans when they showed up. This also solves the issue where a "planet" is basically one city.
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Season 1.23: A Taste of Armageddon
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise forcefully opens up diplomatic relations (as in ignoring orders to stay away) with the planet Eminiar 7. It has been fighting a pseudo-war with the third planet in the same system (Vendikar) for 500 years. The war is run by computers, who decide who has been killed, and the casualties then report to disintegration chambers. After the Enterprise is declared 'destroyed', the crew fights to survive and Kirk threatens to destroy the entire planet. Eventually Spock disrupts the computer controlling the flow of communications and Kirk tells everyone they can make peace or go to war for real.
TBG Discussion: This is an awkward episode to integrate into a game where we're actually tracking all significant species. What happened to the Eminiar and Vendikar? Maybe they're out there, but have gone heavy isolationist and don't fly starships around? (No starships were mentioned in the episode.) Maybe the peace talks failed and they're all dead. (Depressing.) Maybe they got ceded into Klingon territory, which is a nice default answer. Interested in thread thoughts on this because it is a good episode and nice bit of lore for the universe.
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Season 1.24: Space Seed
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Seed_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: KHAAAN!!!! A genetic superman from the Eugenics Wars is revived and tries to take over the Enterprise, but Kirk beats him in a fistfight and strands him and his followers on a planet.
TBG Discussion: Given the importance to the movies, presumably this episode happened pretty much as depicted.
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Season 1.25: This Side of Paradise
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise finds a colony that has been affected by space spores from a space plant, curing their physical ailments but altering their minds. Kirk and Spock bombard the planet with anger-inducing sub-sonics to free them.
TBG Discussion: No issues, though in modern sci-fi there would probably be a, "And actually, eventually the spores germinate and you die as flowers sprout out of your brain," stinger on the spores to make them seem worse.
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Season 1.26: The Devil in the Dark
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark_(episode)
Planet of Hats
Summary: The Enterprise investigates a 'monster' terrorizing a mining colony and discovers it is an intelligent silicon-based being trying to protect its young. Peace is negotiated.
TBG Discussion: No issues here. Given the unique psychology and physiology of the Horta it's not exactly surprising if they have no interest in leaving their planet or in much greater contact with the Federation.
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Season 1.27: Errand of Mercy
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Errand_of_Mercy_(episode)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0026.html
Summary: With the Federation on the verge of war with the Klingon Empire, the Enterprise races to prevent the Klingons from occupying the primitive world of Organia and using it as a staging ground for their offensive. However the Organians prove to secretly be godlike creatures who put a stop to the fighting, not only on their own world but a stop to the entire war.
TBG Discussion: There's no contradiction with game, but it's yet another instance of a higher tier species putting its hand in. You think TNG invented that with Q? Not hardly. What would be really interesting to see is what kind of understanding the Federation has of how all these godlike energy beings interact. Do we have any clues at all regarding their politics and principles, or are we as helpless as animals on a nature preserve?
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Season 1.28: The City on the Edge of Forever
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0028.html
Summary: Possibly the single most famous Star Trek episode. A drug-addled McCoy accidentally changes history through the Guardian of Forever, and Kirk and Spock must change it back by allowing the woman Kirk loves to die.
TBG Discussion: No issues.
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Season 1.29: Operation – Annihilate!
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_--_Annihilate!_(episode)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0029.html
Summary: The Deneva colony is attacked by neural parasites that cause mass insanity while the crew of Enterprise search for a way to stop them. This is part of a pattern of mass insanity spreading across interstellar space that has already killed several colonies. UV light does the trick in destroying the parasites and the colony is saved.
TBG Discussion: The neutral parasites are half disease, half invasion, and the notion that something like this can suddenly pop up on the Federation's borders is certainly a cautionary tale.
Actually, I believe TBG is using the Kelvin-verse canon where Delta Vega is apparently another planet on the outer reaches of the Vulcan trinary star system. Which...makes it kinda awkward for the Enterprise to strand someone in a core member's backyard. But maybe they thought they could ask the Vulcans to try and rehabilitate Mitchel, since as we see with that blind girl (I forget her name, from the episode with the Medusans), apparently telepathic humans get trained by Vulcans in TOS.
Might not be as easy as that. I seem to recall STIV indicated that it takes some really advance math to calculate the slingshot effect. Sulu may be able to reproduce the previous flights he'd been on if you gave him a ship of the exact mass and dimensions of the original Enterprise or the Bounty (with and without 2 whales). But he can't do it with just any old ship by himself. Spock, however, is still around.
I think it's likely that the two planets went into a cold war that may or may not have eventually turned into a limited or unlimited war. Or in any case, they haven't made nice with each other and neither thinks well of the Federation for breaking their previous form of war. So relations are sub-zero and the Federation doesn't want to get involved again until they fix themselves on their own.
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Mad Engineering!
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One of these days, I'll find a good excuse to write a Horta or two in Starfleet. I think there was one in TAS, and their certainly was ensign Naraht in the novels. He should have gotten some promotions since.
Edit: Memory Beta says just the books, but at least he was recurring there, and made lt. or lt. Cmdr. In TOS book era.
Edit: Memory Beta says just the books, but at least he was recurring there, and made lt. or lt. Cmdr. In TOS book era.
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"Prepare for trouble..."
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Is now not a good time to mention that I ship Sulu and N'Gir?
The thing is, Malcat Tucker doesn't give a fuck either. So such posturing isn't really in the hypothetical Orions favour.
Also they probably wouldn't be dealing with N'Girs people. You deploy people like that on someone who's fucked up in your own party, so asshole cat is probably from the Ferasa councillor telling her to stop trolling "Traitor Motarr" on Space twitter.
Yes. Krisil's act of sabotage comes from the fact they're largely operating in a "safe" area for Quiet Progress. But she's so consumed by intra-party politics she's willing to sabotage others to ensure that even if they lose overall, she wins. I wouldn't expect to see that in a no-shit, all hands on deck this is going to be close election.
The poll kit being stolen by a "friend" on the campaign is something I heard anecdotally; obviously IRL no one confessed to it, that's just heightening things for dramatic effect.
Part of this omake was me going back and realizing N'Gir isn't like, actually all that rude by contemporary standards. Like, she said she might have asked Sousa to resign, but she didn't imply Sousa was a fat, bloodthirsty idiot whose head is so far up her arse she couldn't save the ships donated to her by the Federation, etc.
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*makes a note for the next FYM panel*
Night
Widow Null
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...phrasing.
(Also rudeness is relative; she's hideously rude, for a Federation President talking to a head of Starfleet.)
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I wonder how hard we'd have to omake to get a panel with not a single Federation-main-species individual on it. I'm handling Mipek. We've got a Horta. I bet we could get a Lamarck if we tried hard enough; just say that someone was partying too hard and downed a course of nootropics instead of something party-ish. That's three. Hmm. That energy being that the Odyssey found living in a gas giant? An uplifted micro-macrocosmozoa? Gorn? Klingons are a bit overdone, but maybe a Romulan or a Cardassian?
Doesn't really strike me as a desirable goal?
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
...Why must you crush my memes like this. ;__;
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I dunno, do we want to get into the whole thing of is Sulu in TBG gay/bi/het?
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
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I mean, probably at least bi given that Demora exists?
Jenny
anonymous user
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Adoption, surrogacy, trans male parent ... Artificial womb?
That said:
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Remember, Enterprise crewmember. Space magic mpreg.
Now please excuse me while I go autoclave my keyboard.
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Been Better
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Naraht?
Is that the one that ate Romulan senators and guards alive on the floor of the senate while Starfleet helps a rogue Romulan officer explode ships with warp cores in the air above Ki Baratan's civilian population as part of their plot to make sure that an extremely minor SI agent of no import hasn't gone native?