• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      8 months ago

      It’s kinda funny that in a way, the humans in the Trek universe, are like the Orks in WH40k

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        I’m super surprised no one on that thread talked about stealing an enemy corvette (lower case C) by way of an oopsy-doodle switcheroo self destruct, slingshotting around the sun back a couple of hundred years, stealing the largest mammals on their home planet in a tank the corvette was never meant to have, because ya know it’s basically an RV with some shotguns duct taped to the top (its name is spray painted on the side). Slingshot back around the sun to the exact millisecond they left.

        And they land, perfectly, in water, right next to their home base.

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        Why do you think there are so few Orions in Starfleet? Because Tendi is one of the few weirdos who Gets It. The rest are like “WTF you people are crazy!”

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        They both seem pretty well assimilated into human culture though. Maybe the crazy can rub off. I think the Vulcans definitely would have said that about T’Pol.

        In actuality though, I think it’s probably just that every species has these people, humans just have more for whatever reason. And so the other species’ people go to join the humans

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          Humans in Trek seem to value individuality over conformity more than most of the other cultures. The ones most like them in that regard are probably Klingons and Bajorans. Likely contributes to the high number of crazy mavericks.

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      IMO it makes more sense if the humans in Star Trek are unreliable narrators.

      How is it possible that a teenage mechanic can improve engine efficiency by 5% messing around in his spare time? Why didn’t the engineers whose full time job it is to build the engines figure that out?

      In fact, cosmic radiation in space drives all humans insane. They truly believe they’re doing science experiments, but stuff goes wrong because they’re just jamming random household items into the engine.

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        TBH, we regularly see teenagers in places come up with breakthrough ideas currently. It’s not weird at all. Estabilished engineers and academia have momentum. They are set in their ways and tend to see things as they always were. We even have famous examples of this where the Theory of Evolution was ridiculed for many years before being grudginly accepted. Einstein rejected quantum theory etc.