quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: What was the position of that woman who wanted to shag Kahn? (Jason, leave it!)
Okay, but this is the one refrain I'll promise for the year.
As to Kim, he'll be doubly left behind- all of his (surviving) classmates would have served through the Dominion War and likely advanced far past him.
Fuck, Nog can order him to clean waste extraction. "Should've bought uncle Quark's gems, hew-mon.."
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I'd say that most of the science people would be below decks, monitoring their own specialized equipment. The stations on the bridge are probably mostly for keeping the bridge apprised of what they're doing or for coordinating efforts.
As for an Earth history expert, they might be useful in helping to understand a new culture by using references from our own past.
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Probably part of a specialist in First Contact procedures- explaining earth -and core UFP worlds- histories to an unafmilliar species, and look for cultural simmalarities.
Probably to put the best possible spin on things, rather than have them find out all that nasty "genocide" stuff later on and make the UFP seem deceptive.
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Picard later called Whalen a "Lit-historian", suggesting that he specialized in literature.
I wonder what the guy did on the ship when he's not going through holodeck fantasies. How often ins earth history referenced out there that they'd need a shipboard expert? I mean, it's not like they'd find a chevy truck floating out in space or something.
And for an historian, I'm surprised he'd be so amazed by the holodeck when he went in there - it'd be one of an historian's most important tool, no?
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I'd say no, actually. You can use a holodeck to recreate historical settings, but only if someone's done the research first.
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And high-fidelity holodecks were brand spanking new during the first season of TNG. The way everyone acts around it, it's as if the thing has just come out of a Starfleet Research lab back on Earth and was wedged into the hull with a minimum amount of testing. The kids thought it was no big deal, but the grups were all agog at the new toy.
Actually, the idea that the holodeck is running pre-beta software would explain a heck of a lot.
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"Obviously you're new to these Galaxy Class ships, Commander. Tell ME the location of Lt. Commander Data. And as you can see Commander... it's pointing the way."
How did they let that take make it to air? On the plus side, Riker did seem pretty annoyed with her.
But the point is, I guess, that alot of things were new at that point. Riker didn't even seem to know what the holodeck was.
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Sooo glad I skipped that episode- If only I'd had the forsight to do the same with Endgame.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: "Obviously you're new to these Galaxy Class ships, Commander. Tell ME the location of Lt. Commander Data. And as you can see Commander... it's pointing the way."
How did they let that take make it to air? On the plus side, Riker did seem pretty annoyed with her.
But the point is, I guess, that alot of things were new at that point. Riker didn't even seem to know what the holodeck was.
I didn't gather from that, that Riker didn't know what a holodeck WAS, just that he didn't know where Data was. Silly scene which I think was simply put in there to have the woman check Riker out when he left showing that in the future sluts still get positions by sleeping their way to the top there is a clear equality between the sexes.
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