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Small Strange Bird posted:Voyager immediately dropping the Starfleet/Maquis tensions (except for the annual 'Maquis stuff' episode) is a flaw everybody has pointed out so often it now goes without saying, but there are so many possibilities for drama it offered that it's mindblowing they were actively avoided. The sister show running at the same time showed you could have conflict between allied but different groups and still keep everyone ultimately on the same team, but nope, everyone from the Alpha Quadrant is in Starfleet uniform with ranks by the end of the pilot. The mandate was syndication is good, continuity confuses people, so all that tawdry conflict and factional drama nonsense had to be put to bed ASAP so every episode could be viewed in a vacuum of late-night television reruns at 1am.
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Gutcruncher posted:one of those dentists  what.
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Production posted:It's amazing, they could easily have stuck closer to their inspiration and made them a race of different racial caricatures of street gang members Now that's gotten me thinking - how many times have Star Trek come across a group of people of different species? Apart from on a planet. And even that's rare outside of Federation worlds. Dominion ships will have Vorta, and Jem'Hadar but I can't think of anyone else apart from when a ship is explicitly transporting someone who is not part of their society, like a foreign diplomat.
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I've been thinking of any example and drawing a blank. Since Phlox was part of a doctor exchange program, it stands to reason there's a human doctor(s) on a Denoblian ship or hospital, so that might count (off screen).
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Denobulan doctors smirking and rolling their eyes as the human doctor recommends scans instead of rubbing patients with animals
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I don't know how you fellas do it on Denobulia!
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I like the episode where they go rescue the Denobulan geologists or something and they didn't really need "rescuing" as much as "convincing" because they could scale the walls of the caves as easy as humans can walk up a slight incline. Are humans particularly good at anything? Like are we "special" because our spit can break down sugar or we can stay conscious with only a 16% oxygen atmosphere?
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I like the episode where they go rescue the Denobulan geologists or something and they didn't really need "rescuing" as much as "convincing" because they could scale the walls of the caves as easy as humans can walk up a slight incline. Long distance running, and fighting.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I like the episode where they go rescue the Denobulan geologists or something and they didn't really need "rescuing" as much as "convincing" because they could scale the walls of the caves as easy as humans can walk up a slight incline. ~friendship~
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Humans are stupid enough that we don’t know what we can’t do so we go for it goshdarnit
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May 2, 2024 17:56
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1. pettin houndawgs 2. eatin STEAK 3. faaaaiith, if the heeeEAARRTtt..
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Gutcruncher posted:Humans are stupid enough that we don’t know what we can’t do so we go for it goshdarnit FFS we're the Orks
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:FFS we're the Orks Vulcan Meat Shields I prefer to think.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I like the episode where they go rescue the Denobulan geologists or something and they didn't really need "rescuing" as much as "convincing" because they could scale the walls of the caves as easy as humans can walk up a slight incline. we're good at Kirk-fu
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redshirt posted:Vulcan Meat Shields I prefer to think. humans are the Jem Hadar of diplomacy
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