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Things We Can Learn From Star Trek
posted by Maria KellySTAFFMOD on March 31, 2017 at 10:21 PM
1)Under United Federation of Planets law, Captain Kirk is required to seduce every hot alien chick he meets.
2)NEVER go down to the planet wearing a red shirt.
3)Klingons hate Tribbles, and Tribbles hate Klingons.
4)Never say anything bad about the Enterprise's engines to Scotty. It will not end well.
5)Never have all of your senior command officers on the same shuttlecraft.
Reply by Maria Kelly
on April 10, 2017 at 11:14 PM
6) Apparently one of the qualifications for being a Captain on a UFP Starship is the ability to talk hostile computers to death.
7).Everything in the universe was either made or discovered by a Russian.
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 13, 2017 at 10:46 PM
8)Never try to use a vulcan nerve pinch on Gary Seven. It's just a waste of everyone's time and energy. However, it's a cool plot device.
Reply by northcoast
on May 13, 2017 at 11:16 PM
9) The shields on a Federation starship are good to absorb one hit from the enemy, if that . . . and then they are completely useless.
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 14, 2017 at 3:12 PM
10)These same shields seem to be unable to keep a lot of different aliens (even the Eymorgs!) from beaming aboard the Enterprise undetected.
Reply by strntz
on May 15, 2017 at 12:25 PM
11) For some reason, it's impossible to implement any security on shuttle craft. Unauthorized shuttle craft launches occur on a regular basis.
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 15, 2017 at 4:29 PM
12) The Enterprise has such a reputation for being the best Starship in Starfleet that various alien races will do almost ANYTHING to capture her.
Reply by strntz
on May 15, 2017 at 5:30 PM
13) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy studied medicine, and ONLY medicine....
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 15, 2017 at 5:56 PM
14) In the future, women will not be taken seriously unless they are practically naked.
Reply by Chris109
on May 17, 2017 at 1:06 PM
15) Women really are a mass of conflicting impulses.
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 17, 2017 at 1:17 PM
16) Don't EVER become an Admiral. It will not end well.
Reply by sukhisoo
on May 18, 2017 at 6:42 PM
If it is Nomad, whose beams are equivalent to 90 photon torpedoes, firing at them, then they can withstand several hits.
17) The Klingons believe as the Capellans do. The sick should die. (This lesson went through my head several times during the health care debate.)
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 18, 2017 at 8:26 PM
The Capalan's and Kligon POV needs to be ashamed of that policy.
Reply by sukhisoo
on May 18, 2017 at 10:48 PM
18) If Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and ensign Smith beam down onto a planet, it doesn't matter whether ensign Smith is wearing red or not. He's going to be lucky to make it past the opening credits.
19) Any starfleet captain not named Kirk is plumb crazy.
20) Security on the Enterprise flat out sucks.
Reply by northcoast
on May 19, 2017 at 4:28 AM
21) There is an entire masterclass at Starfleet Academy dedicated to the art of negotiation. It is called: "If You Are Not Threatening To Blow Up Your Ship At Least 20 Times During Your Five-Year Mission, You're Not Doing It Right."
Reply by Maria Kelly
on May 19, 2017 at 2:09 PM
@northcoast
thanks for that post! I really needed the laugh. Moving right along.......
22)The Enterprise is the only Starship in Starfleet whose crew seems to have gotten any training in "Incompetent Federation Officials (and members of Federation Planets) and How To Keep Them From Getting Themselves, Your Starship or Whole Regions Of Space Destroyed Before Taking Them To Their Destination"