Xik posted:

Humans are garbage. Evolution gave us hands and brains to over-compensate for everything else that is poo poo about us. Even on this planet there are creatures that are better than us at literally every other possible thing.

So we can use our brains and hands to make things and solve our problems with technology, but in a sci-fi setting where everyone is flying around faster than light between systems and can blow up planets our "crowning achievement" is the equivalent of a certificate of participation. Old Man's War is cool, genetically engineered super soldiers, hyper advanced nano technology and consciousness transfer provides us the absolute bare minimum to even attempt to compete out there and it's an enormous uphill battle...

mycomancy posted:

Actually no. Humans are insanely physically resilient. Example: a friend was skiing in Colorado and hit a tree going full speed down hill. Fractured skull, broken ribs, hip, legs, arm, and a ruptured spleen. This level of injury would've killed most large mammals almost instantly, but I couldn't even tell she had ever been injured when I saw her. Humans also have high physical endurance, being evolved from plains pursuit hunters; we can literally walk most quadripeds to death. Finally, our social nature allows humans to act as a super organism of sorts. One human is easy to deal with, ten is MUCH harder, and one million can generate a society that produces nuclear weapons.

Pick posted:

Reddit is 100% more trashy and embarrassing than Alien Love Slave or whatever

Johnny Aztec posted:

I have not actually seen the episode with Mudd, so it may not be completely relevant, but There has been a few times someone would go to London and offer the prostitutes and lower class women a chance to escape London to live in some colony.
I forget the details, but there was one colony that had a horrible M:F ratio, so they brought over a shipload of women. Sure, it's jumping into the unknown, but London was really dirty and nasty and most of them would never had the chance to find anything better.

mycomancy posted:

Actually no. Humans are insanely physically resilient. Example: a friend was skiing in Colorado and hit a tree going full speed down hill. Fractured skull, broken ribs, hip, legs, arm, and a ruptured spleen. This level of injury would've killed most large mammals almost instantly, but I couldn't even tell she had ever been injured when I saw her. Humans also have high physical endurance, being evolved from plains pursuit hunters; we can literally walk most quadripeds to death. Finally, our social nature allows humans to act as a super organism of sorts. One human is easy to deal with, ten is MUCH harder, and one million can generate a society that produces nuclear weapons.

Bombadilillo posted:

There were a lot of indentured servants. (Read criminal or just poor slave labor. To fill out the colonies.

rndmnmbr posted:

It all boils down to, we think of sci-fi aliens as wearing their species' "hat", and we wonder what the human "hat" is. Where in reality we're far too diverse to have one specific role as a whole, and aliens are probably the exact same way. Klingons would have their bookish nerds and pacifists, Vulcans would have their guys who routinely lost their temper, Ferengi would have their socialists, etc. Real people, of whatever species, are far too complicated to casually pidgeonhole.

I mean, look at it. We already assume roles and behaviors between us humans based on external characteristics. It's called racism, and it's an ugly thing.

(If humans did have a hat though, I'd like to think it was "stubbornness" We're predators who hunted by running our prey to death. We're not the smartest or the strongest or armed with natural weaponry or armor, but once we get a goal to achieve for good or ill we'll never, ever give up on it.)

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The good episodes of Star Trek (mostly DS9) even explore that; we see Klingons who think their society is a load of bullcrap, Ferengi who form an egalitarian union to protest their working conditions or join a space communist society to escape pigeonholing, offshoot Vulcans who form their own society (ie, Romulans), even Vorta who realise their leaders are loving crazy and driving themselves into extinction over a suicidal case of lebensraum and so on.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The good episodes of Star Trek (mostly DS9) even explore that; we see Klingons who think their society is a load of bullcrap, Ferengi who form an egalitarian union to protest their working conditions or join a space communist society to escape pigeonholing, offshoot Vulcans who form their own society (ie, Romulans), even Vorta who realise their leaders are loving crazy and driving themselves into extinction over a suicidal case of lebensraum and so on.

Bombadilillo posted:

Dax calls worf out on his Klingon bullshit and it's great. Tells him he follows the ritual side religiously without enjoying the zest of life.

Then reveals what good it your honor ideals if your le as ders are full of poo poo in actions.

It's really the culmination of a 10 year worf journey and I love it.

Danaru posted:

Another thing is our adaptability. I love the X-Com series because from the alien's perspective, they start off slow because it's a planet full of dumbass monkeys using explosions to propel projectiles at their ships. Within a couple months suddenly we've strapped their technology to our airplanes, and we've pried open enough Sectoids to make our soldiers psionic, and now the humans are robbing dead aliens for plasma cells because we managed to reverse engineer their ground weaponry. By the time they realize how bad they hosed up, 20 flying psychic humans are boot-loving the door to their HQ on a completely different planet and launching remote controlled missiles at everything inside You can't leave ANYTHING behind around humans or we'll find a way to either use it or bone it.

Scifi owns

Kitchner posted:

I loved the Klingon lawyer dude who was like "Warriors fight battles in space, other warrior fight their battles in court rooms using different weapons".

Bobby Deluxe posted:

is that the dude who said klingons used to have a science caste and an engineering caste but kids nowadays all just want to be warriors and gently caress poo poo up

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Bobby Deluxe posted:

is that the dude who said klingons used to have a science caste and an engineering caste but kids nowadays all just want to be warriors and gently caress poo poo up

Kitchner posted:

No that's a different guy.

This is the guy who was like "I look forward to battling you Captain Sisko" and Sisko is like "This is a search for the truth" and the dude just smiles and says "The truth must be won, see you on the battlefield".

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Ch%27Pok

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Bogus Adventure posted:

I know we all laugh at Kirk's fighting style, but those are also the thighs that have satisfied aliens across the galaxy. They would be more than a match for a mere genetically-engineered superman.

Pick posted:

I super like those boots, too.

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naem posted:

i’m that guy’s weird floppy rubber hand smackin’ around all over james t. kirk’s balls

Pick posted:

star trek is loving great !!

Pick posted:

star trek is loving great !!

Snow Cone Capone posted:

Yah Tilly is the best

BlockChainNetflix posted:

I've decided season 2 of Discovery is going to start with Discovery crashing into the Enterprise, killing all hands except for Tilly, gay engineer guy and lanky alien guy. Gay doctor guys consciousness is going to get downloaded into a mobile emitter somehow, and the four of them are going to go on some proper adventures across the galaxy.